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[chocolateeclaire]

Miss Marple who has been laying egg with the most wonderful hard shell has now laid 2 eggs in a row with barely any shell at all.

She free ranges most days so should be OK for grit.

However I have put off worming mine as it all sounds SO difficult, especially as mine do not seem to eat their layers pellets - could this cause a problem with soft shells???

Claire

[Ygerna]

Not sure about the cause of the soft shells. I try to keep my girls in their run for a couple of hours first thing in the morning, hoping that this will ensure they get a good amount of layers pellets before going out onto the garden.

 

As for Worming, it may sound a bit of a faff but, it isn't really, and it is rather important to do it. The next time I do it I am going to do the 'grape' method. Cutting a grape in half, dabbing the cut side into the flubenvet and then giving them one each. I shall do this for 7 days. Last time I did all the weiging and measuring and mixing and though it took a while to get it all mixed, once it was done though I just fed it into their feeders, again, not too hard just a bit time consuming in the first instance

[Plum]

Wondered if she is getting enough calcium if she is freeranging a lot. You can give them crushed oyster shell and they take what they need, or feed their crushed shells back to them.