Elderly cat breathing difficulties when purring

[NixiePixie]

Sara (ex bat- had her since May) has been laying eggs beautifully and reliably every day- as do my other 3. Bless them.

They are on layers pellets and have oyster shell grit; and grain in the afternoon.

 

Two weeks ago, Sara started laying shell-less eggs, reliably everyday. I haven't seen any blood or any nasties- just a mucus mess in the nesting box after she goes up to lay

 

Yesterday, she appeared to drop another 'egg' on the floor and there was a huge hen rush to eat it. Nice.

 

Is there anything that I should be doing? All I can seem to find relates to hens doing this 'occasionally' rather than regularly.

Any advice gratefully received.

Many thanks,

NixiePixie

[legend21]

Have you added cod liver oil or limestone flour to the feed to give her extra calcium, Im not an expert but that is where I would start.

 

good luck

 

Jackie

[Christian]

More info in the FAQs section here - viewtopic.php?f=44&t=4720

 

Good luck

[Mrs Slats]

we had this problem with Paxo. the few hard shells she did lay she started pecking at and she had developed a taste for. she was also eating less pellets because she was full on her own eggs...which wasn't helping her with laying hard shelled eggs. it's a viscious circle.

 

We started by popping in a couple of clay eggs in the nest box to discourage the own egg eating.

 

And gave them a daily dose of layers porridge with extra limestone flower and cod liver oil to kick start the hard shell production. the porridge was dosed with tuna / corn etc to make it more tempting than plain old pellets.

 

It's turned things around pretty well. I haven't seen a softie since and we've been getting a brown or 2 a day from our 4 girls. (They had gone a month without laying an egg between them.)

 

i still give them the super porridge every now and again, just to keep them on track - I'm not running a hotel

[Chooks Aloud]

They sometimes have a blip and do lay softees but if you are constantly getting soft eggs, you need to take her out of lay and let her have a rest. To do this stop feeding her pellets and just feed corn. This will bring on a moult and egg laying will stop. Once the moult has started, put her back on the pellets. She maybe in a moult for couple of months, but this will let her laying tackle have a good rest.

 

Hope this helps.

[NixiePixie]

Many thanks everyone- she's such a dear little thing, definately the most sociable of the lot.

I will take her away from the rest during the day and feed her just grain for a while and see how it goes.

 

Fingers crossed!