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[sandyhas3chucks]

I asked this before & got no replies but I am still getting this weird problem on & off. Saturday am perfect normal egg,

overnight Sat a softee.

Sunday morning a perfect normal but white not her usual brown egg. Had the chewing gum remains of previous softee there with it.

Then by 9pm tonight another softee!

 

Previously we have only had am good pm soft am good.

 

Now I get the bit about one egg every 25 hours AND the bit that the shell is formed last.

all girls are on ZolcalD individually dosed, and this girls is not an exbat.

cod liver oil once a week, got crushed oyster shell too.

she is normally a good daily layer & has done this on 2 previous occasions.

 

 

I have only got one that hasn't done this once, since I got them & one that only did it once that I know off. (when I first got the girls I would not have known who unless I saw them drop it in the run)

The softee one seems to happen in the evening or overnight.

 

There must be soneone that knows the WHY of this.????

What am I getting wrong?

[quinlan]

No advice foem me I'm afraid, but do have a similar problem. One of my girls lays normal eggs for a few days, then a double yolker, then has a day off followed by a couple of days of softies. Yesterday she looked really sorry for herself most of the day and at bedtime had a big softie hanging out of her vent which contained another weak shelled egg inside. She looks much better today but I'm hoping (as has been advised by a few people) that its just her getting into the swing of the egg laying thing. Am going to try calcium supplements too.

 

Sorry no help but just wanted you to know your not alone (and I doubt you are doing anything wrong... just one of those things!?)

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Can't help either I'm afraid but I'm getting a lot of softies from Maisie - she's laid about 6 in a row (with the odd day off inbetween) . She doesn't seem unwell though so I'm just waiting to see if it'll pass. I'm giving them limestone flour and crushed eggshell and making sure the oystershell is stocked up.

 

I've checked out the "Eggs" section and it doesn't seem to be anything to worry about if they're well in themselves.

[sandyhas3chucks]

This is called double ovulation I think in young birds just starting to lay, and is one of those things.(so I read) what Iam looking for an explanation for is this 12 hour thing....also alternating the soft one at night with the good one 12 hours later,

I am sort of resigned to the occasal softee day or so, but I don't unserstand this other thing.

Thank you soo much for replying I am assuming as yet again there have been no explanation or theiry's even that no one knows, I stil have yet to hear of someone else alternating this 12 hour egg laying....

[sandyhas3chucks]

ANH postings crossed. thanks too. I nearly lost a chook just out of battery 3 weeks with egg peritonitis. an early lesson learned

had so many though, & now relaxed a lot, and I just watch them really well. 12 hours would be be my Max time AFTER the softee laid, before taking a poorly looking chook to the vet. this is the time I have personally witnessed either another softee or a good one with the chewing gum shell expelled with it. And a happier chook. This is ONLY my own observations with my 4 over my very short time of being owned by chooks

Oh & being a soft touch I bring that chook in on own to the warm, as I justr feel that it must be easier to push in the warm, & better as they don't seem to eat then to not be using excess energy on keeping warm.

I hope this helps someone else

[Egluntyne]

Found this about double ovulation on 'tinterweb.

 

Normally only one yolk is ovulated per day, but occasionally two may be released and on rare occasions there may be three. If two are ovulated at the same time normally only one enters the oviduct, but if both eggs are picked up simultaneously by the oviduct a double yolked egg will result. About two thirds of double yolked eggs are the result of ovulations within 3hours of each other. If there is a great difference in the ovulation time, two eggs may be produced on the same day but usually the second is soft shelled.

 

Double yolked eggs are more common during the first part of the egg production period because of an overactive ovary, and are often associated with meat-type strains than with egg-type ones. The incidence is an inherited trait since some birds produce a higher incidence of double-yolked eggs than others. Spring and summer-housed pullets also produce a greater number of double-yolk eggs than fall and winter-housed pullets.

 

Sounds as if there isn't much you can do about it unfortunately....and that she might just grow out of it.

[sandyhas3chucks]

Thanks "E" I must look in the wrong places. She is "grown up" though, but as long as I am not giving her to much of something & causing it, then as you say.. "nought I can do!" She is probably abot the same sort of age as the ex bats. thanks again

[Egluntyne]

I just wonder if you change her onto a rubbish diet with lots of treats etc she might ovulate less frequently, and perhaps her eggs would be of a better quality.

 

Layers pellets after all are designed to get the maximum egg yield out of a hen.

 

Just a thought.

 

It might be worth a try for a short while.

[sandyhas3chucks]

ok.... went the othr way thinking giving her to much caused it, she just started to moult, & her friend I am still trying to build up, so maybe she getting too much of the good stuff.

How rubbish should I go, she loves corn, apples, yoghurt, puffed wheat?

[Egluntyne]

Maybe reduce her pellets by 1/3 and give her pasta, rice and any other treats for a few days to see if the situation improves.

 

If it doesn't, put her back on her normal diet.

[sandyhas3chucks]

cheers let you know how we go, though no egg today thank goodness!