Thin egg shells

Despite feeding the chooks crushed oyster shells, and their own egg shells back to them, and layers mash, one of the hens is now laying thin or broken eggs, and some eggs seem to have not much yolk.

Do you know what might be causing this, and what I should do about it?

Thanks

Hey Ronnytigs! How are you?

Sometimes if parasites are a problem with your chooks (which is very common this time of year), this can affect the quality of the egg.

To improve the quality of the egg shell, I recommend you buy some limestone flour and add a sprinkling to your chooks feed. It's packed full of calcium and easily absorbed by the chicken. Also treat your hens for parasites if they're showing any signs. of them being present.

Hope this makes sense...it's very early in the morning!

Thanks CC, I shall give the flour a go... I don't think it's parasites, all the girls look very healthy.

I'm wondering if the weather changing is affecting them too.

Cripes just saw the time of your reply!!

New baby letting you know?

You guessed correctly Feeling a bit zombie-fied at the mo with the lack of sleep... loving motherhood though although my chooks seem to be missing the attention I used to give them!

Let us know how you get on with the limestone flour!

They seem to have adjusted back again with out any problem, so perhaps it was just the change in the weather.
I shall get some flour though, in case it happens again.

Daisy has stopped laying all together, she of the extremely eye wateringly large eggs.
She isn't moulting, do you think she will ever lay again?
As you know all my hens are ex-batts, and so she must be about 2 1/2 years old now.

Well wouldn't you know it, the very next day she laid one of her enormous eggs, in a totally new place in the garden.

Aren't chickens just the most contrary, silly, and adorable creatures?!!