chocolateeclaire Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ygerna Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
