20d • 📁 Questions & Advice
🔍 CASE FILE: THE SOFT-SHELLED EGG
A keeper finds a rubbery, soft-shelled egg in the nest box. The hen seems perfectly healthy. The usual suspects:
- Not enough calcium. Free-choice oyster shell helps.
- A young hen just starting to lay. Her "egg factory" is still getting set up.
- Stress, heat, or a scare can throw things off.
- Age. Older hens can lay thinner shells.
One odd egg is usually nothing to worry about. If it keeps happening, or a hen seems unwell or strains to lay, call a vet.
Have you ever found one of these in your nest box?
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🔍 CASE FILE: THE SOFT-SHELLED EGG
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