One of the most frequent causes of laying thin shell or soft eggs is a diet low in calcium. While most quality layer feeds have extra calcium in them, you should still offer a supplement just to make sure your hens get enough. If your laying chickens aren’t eating enough calcium, soft eggs aren’t your only concern.
Sometimes, as with a pullet, a hen’s miniature egg contains a real yolk. That might occur if something disrupted her normal laying cycle. The hen, for example, may suffer from stress induced by heat, crowding, or poor nutrition, including inadequate protein or salt.
Why is my chicken not laying eggs?
That might occur if something disrupted her normal laying cycle. The hen, for example, may suffer from stress induced by heat, crowding, or poor nutrition, including inadequate protein or salt. She may be continually pestered by a rooster. Or she may be ill or injured and lack enough energy to both heal and produce eggs.
Yes she has been laying regular size eggs for about 3 weeks It happens sometimes. Hopefully the hen will back to her normal self tomorrow. If the hen keeps laying small eggs, then I would think there was a problem. Ok thanks I will keep on eye on her. Did she get a bit of a scare recently?
Why is my hen laying eggs with thin shells?
My hen is laying eggs with very thin shells! A thin shelled egg can once again be blamed on a hen that has just begun to lay (those pullets are trouble makers), and will resolve on its own once the chicken has matured a bit.
Why is my Pullet laying small eggs?
Pullets that are underweight when they start laying continue to lay smaller eggs than birds that have matured properly. A pullet’s small eggs are generally rounder, compared to the more elongated eggs of a hen. Sometimes a mature hen lays a tiny yolkless egg at the beginning or end of her laying cycle.