Unsecure chicken perches

[hunkydoory]

One of my girls frequently lays double yolk eggs - usually 2 or 3 a week with normal single yolk eggs most other days. One evening last week she was in the back flower border; she was all puffed up and concentrating hard! She produced a shell-less egg and promptly turned around and started to eat it the other two girls were quick to arrive at the scene and a scuffle broke out for the lions share

 

Since then I have found shell-less eggs in the eglu and have arrived at the conclusion that on her' normal egg' days she produces the second yolk later that day and then has a day off before laying a supersized double yolker.

 

Is this normal?

[jennydavies]

We had a couple of "softies" when our girls first started laying. Once they got settled and into the swing of regular laying, they were fine and giving us regular double yolkers. Make sure you have grit/shell available for them to ensure good shells.

[hunkydoory]

They have access to cuttle fish, grit and also FR daily for a couple of hours, so I think should be ok. The shells on the morning eggs are all quite thick, it's just the evening 'after thought' ones that she lays that have no real shell - almost like a yolk in a clear membrane. She is about 50 weeks old now and has been laying for 10/12 weeks.

 

I wonder if she is expelling a yolk that didn't quite make it into the morings egg?

[sarahtucker81]

I have been having the exact same problem and don't know what to do about it as it is happening very frequently.

 

I'm living in Denmark at the moment so the daylight is for about 20 hours a day and wondered if that made a difference. My chickens are laying a normal (great shelled) egg each every day. Then one of them, Beanie, is laying another shell-less egg in the evenings. She is producing normal eggs daily as well so surely it can't be the grit - and chickens aren't meant to lay more than one egg a day right?

 

She is 2 now and it never happened last year..

 

Have you managed to find an answer to your problem yet as I would love to hear it. The egg makes a real mess of the nest box which isn't nice in these warm days!