I think I'm an over anxious mother but to chickens - the real child is no problem and there's always doctors if I need it for him. My latest worry is that one of my hens has laid odd eggs the last two times. She's only started to lay recently, but her eggs had been normal and perhaps 2/3 a week for a month. On Wed she laid a big, slightly tubular one with a soft shell and the end seemed to have extra thickness of shell. Yesterday nothing, today another slightly tubular egg, hard shell this time but a bit of a ridged end and it was twice the size of normal. She seems fine in all other respects, and doesn't seem bothered by this either. I'm just a bit worried that there's something wrong, or that she'll get one stuck - am I just paranoid ? She free ranges and I've put out some oyster shell (which she's ignored).
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Is she a young hen that has just started laying? New hens eggs can be alsorts of shapes and sizes. Once they get used to laying they will start to lay a regular sized and shaped egg.
I wouldn;t worry, but would give her oyster grit mixed into her layers pellets this will help with the egg shell.
Sue
I wouldn;t worry, but would give her oyster grit mixed into her layers pellets this will help with the egg shell.
Sue
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That's good,I'm pleased for you Dawn 
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dawn said:Thanks for the reply Sue, yes she is a young hen that's just started laying - and there have been 3 normal eggs in the last 3 days.
Hi Dawn
So glad your girl has started normal laying duties, don't be worried about the size and shape, hens that are just starting to lay will produce the most amazing shapes and sizes of eggs for the first few weeks. One of my new girls laid a 2"x1/2" tubular egg shelled thing this morning. Looked more like a number 2 but in an egg form!! :shock:
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victorias poultry said:One of my new girls laid a 2"x1/2" tubular egg shelled thing this morning. Looked more like a number 2 but in an egg form!! :shock:
Sue,
what's a number 2 :? .......
:lol: :mrgreen: :shock:
