Give them grit and crushed oyster shells or, from personal experience, I have found that cleaned, crushed eggshells will also work a treat. The grit and oyster shells must be specialist chicken ones.
Often as a hen first starts to lay, eggs may have soft shells until her body gets the gist of things. Shock can also cause a hen to lay an odd soft shelled egg. Although with this in mind, a hen which often lays soft shelled eggs is a cause for concern and veterinary advice must be sought immediately.
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All hens lay eggs.
Hens are mom chickens and roosters are dad chickens. Only mom chickens, hens, lay eggs. They lay eggs all year.
There is no such thing as a "boy hen". Hens are female chickens.
Hens lay eggs, the ones you eat.
Yes, hens can lay eggs for 2-3 years.
Feather coloring does not influence the color of the egg laid. The breed of the hen dictates what color her eggs will be.
Soft-shelled eggs indicate a lack of calcium in the hen's diet. Feed more oyster shell or finely-crushed, dry eggshells.
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Yes some hens do lay green eggs.The araucana chicken lays green eggs.
Older birds do not lay peewee eggs. Young hens and smaller breeds of hens lay the peewee eggs and the older the hen, the larger the eggs are. Hens tend to lay more eggs in the spring and summer.
The females from all breeds of chickens lay eggs. Some hens stop laying when they are old, but there are no breeds or varieties of chickens in which the females do not lay eggs. Roosters, as the male of the species, never lay eggs.
No that's not true. Are you ok? Who doesn't know that hens lay eggs? And where did you hear that? Oh gosh