Soft Shelled Egg Pullet

4Chicks · **Joined:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:36 am **Posts:** 37

I have a pullet who started laying last week. I found a soft shell egg at my doorstep last night and this afternoon she squatted in front of me and pushed out another soft shell egg.
I offered her a boiled egg which she ate and not long after she passed the egg.
I lost a pullet last year, dead in the nest box which I suspect was caused by egg bound/ heart attack.
Can I offer her anything else apart from shell grit?

Katy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2015 1:33 pm

So are the shells still inside her?

4Chicks · **Joined:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:36 am **Posts:** 37

Katy wrote:

So are the shells still inside her?

No, no shell inside her, just laying a soft egg intact. She squatted in front of me and layed one. Night before that someone left a double yolker, no shell again on the front door mat. I assume it was her, she is a door sitter.
I am at this stage trying to avoid egg bound!
I think she has just laid an egg in a nest box with a shell. I have mixed grit and powdered egg shell in a mash maybe it is working.
I have set up a trail camera to see who goes where, have yet to download it.

Sash · **Joined:** Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:17 pm **Posts:** 1084

by the sounds she may be over it

Cackles · **Joined:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:11 pm **Posts:** 13870

Quote:

I think she has just laid an egg in a nest box with a shell.

Did she?

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