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Soft shelled egg - complete

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This is what Bobbi has been laying the last couple of days.

 

I have been panicking that she is ill.

 

:oops:

 

Dont worry - softies can occur every now and then.

 

My girls always have grit and crushed up egg shell in their food but they can still happen - the sudden change in the weather hasnt helped either :roll:

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I've had a few softies as well in the last couple of weeks. I put grit into the food but they just ignored picked out the pellets and left the grit - so I gave tipped out the grit into a seperate tub and they have wolfed down the lot..... strange things!

 

I think it is just one of the hens laying the soft shells but I don't know which.....

 

Helen in Hume

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I'm relieved that others are getting shell-less eggs too - today I got one egg with a soft shell and one with no shell at all. The girls have grit available all the time, and seem to be eating it, so I was a bit worried but maybe it is the weather/time of year.

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Marigold is very prone to laying soft eggs if she doesn't get enough shell in her diet. She's not very good at this egg malarky, bless her heart.

:roll:

She laid the weirdest egg today, it had what looked like scratch marks in the shell :shock: and it was kind of mis-shapen, like babies heads when they always lay on the same side. I bet when I crack it open it's got a really thin shell too.

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