Locking Bar Eglu Classic

[katek]

On of my lovely chooks has a dirty bottom. She is also laying very soft eggs - anywhere - which she is eating! They are ex-bat which we have had for a year (and lovely).

 

They ran out of grit a week ago but they f/r most days - WIR otherwise. I add poultry spice to their feed and porrage most days so she has enough calcium. Other than this she looks so healthy with such a beautiful red/brown coat full crop scratching up my garden and running after me when I get meal worms or corn. When she first came she had very few feathers and was the bottom of the pecking order being attacked by the other two and didn't seem to eat for days. She is now the largest and always first to the food and grabbing worms off the others. Still a bit shy of strangers and doesn't like handling but we love her very much.

 

So can anyone help me.

1. is there a reason for a dirty bottom - no diarrhoea

2. I think the eggs are soft as it is end of season - one has stopped laying but is there anything else I can do

3. I am going to worm them and have flubenvet but one of my friends said there is something from the omlet site that you can use for only 3 days - not the 7 my flubenvet says. I can't find this!

4. she is not eating the hard eggs only the soft one so hopefully this will stop, any advice.

 

Thanks Kate

[katek]

also what do you do when the eggs stop for the winter. I am now used to having 21 eggs a week!