Soft eggs - now not laying at all

[Morricl]

Hi everyone, I have researched this on this site and others and cannot find the answer. 2 yr old Warren - she is moulting but keeps laying soft shelled eggs. Now not laying at all but is trying to - she's not broody but she goes in coop and appears to be trying to lay. I have given her oyster shell, greens, dried but moistened cat food, ready brek, usual diet of layers pellets, ACV, Poultry Spice etc! Her vent appears moist and if I pick her up it looks like the vent is trying to expel an egg (if you know what I mean). She is as boisterous as our other one and doesn't appear in distress or ill - she just isn't laying but seems to want to. I have felt her abdomen around the vent and cannot feel anything that indicates she is egg bound. We started with 3 Warrens 6 months ago - one died of a prolapse, one got bit in the head by the dog and is now blind in one eye and now this............. Up to £30 per egg

 

[Anonymous]

She's unlikely to lay until after she's done molting. As for her looking like she wants to lay, it just may be that since that's been her habit, she thinks she should be doing something even tho' her body is busy making new feathers. Sounds like she has a nice healthy diet, I would give her some time to finish her molt and see if you're not back in eggs. It's getting late enough in the year she may not lay well until spring unless you add light. A 2 year old just doesn't lay as well in the winter as a younger bird. :roll:

Sometimes the eggs do get dear, don't they? We have a few turkeys like that, the one we're eating for the holiday, if we did the math, is surely more than the price of caviar a pound We're doing better with turkeys now, but the learning curvy was a bit steep.