Egg

[Gene French]

Picked up an egg freshly laid...

No shell...

Never seen such a thing..

Opened it up...was a double yoke..

Gene

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[Joe Harrison]

 No shell?  The yoke's on you!!  (Probably all over you.  Just suck it up)

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[Sam Wilson]

Gene,

Your hens are all pretty young, right?  Like this is from a hen just getting started on

her laying career?  Sometimes this happens with a young layer until her system gets

into proper egg making form.  Two dietary reasons for shell-less eggs are not enough

calcium in their diet and too much salt in their diet.  Nice pics!

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[Gene French]

They are young   .....

And they are fed well...using concentrate for layers...

Should be plenty of vitamins y minerals

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[Gene French]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Gene

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[aes.j...@gmail.com]

Gene,

I've had eggs similar to that, basically no shell. Usually the chicken was young or in poor health or not getting enough calcium. When we still had chickens here I got into feeding fermented feed which really made a huge difference in the eggs laid and the chickens health. If you are interested let me know and I will give you the info I have about feeding fermented feed. It does not have enough alcohol content to affect the chickens behavior. Something else I did was to have a dirt floor in their coop. I kept about 8" of wood shavings from a local sawmill on the dirt. That does a lot of things to help the chickens health plus it gives them a lot of scratching to do in bad weather. I think I still have information on that too if you are interested.

Art 

[Gene French]

Wow...thank you...

I would appreciate any advice...

I have a nice cement floor and snake proof cage...probably 3x3 meters .... maybe 30 to 35 chickens. ..all are young...just starting to produce...

Gene

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[aes.j...@gmail.com]

Gene,

 I guess I've lost my files on chickens. I did a lot of posting on  https://www.backyardchickens.com/ (also, https://permaculturenews.org/2016/06/20/cut-your-chickens-feed-bill-by-fermenting/). They have good coverage on fermenting feed and also on deep litter, you can search both. I really liked fermented feed, it is moist which helps in digestion. It is also probiotic which helps with all kinds of chicken problems. It also improves eggs, they stood up better when frying, didn't run all over the skillet, color was richer too. some mention of deep litter here, https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/deep-litter-method-zb0z1208zmat I only used wood shavings as they were easily available and didn't sour like some things. I kept my deep litter around 8" deep on my dirt floor and just changed a little at a time. i didn't have any problems with the chickens from the litter. the chickens were allowed to run in the yard as i had a chain link fence that had its bottom embedded in cement to keep the diggers out, never had a problem with dogs or coyotes. 

 

 my feed fermented for 4 days which made great feed, the chickens loved it. Those were plastic trash cans. I split 4" PVC pipe to made feeders.

 my egg on the left compared to a store bought large egg. 

ask any questions you might have.

Art

On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 8:55:45 PM UTC-6, gene wrote:

Wow...thank you...

I would appreciate any advice...

I have a nice cement floor and snake proof cage...probably 3x3 meters .... maybe 30 to 35 chickens. ..all are young...just starting to produce...

Gene

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On Jun 16, 2018, at 8:02 PM, aes.j...@gmail.com wrote:

Gene,

I've had eggs similar to that, basically no shell. Usually the chicken was young or in poor health or not getting enough calcium. When we still had chickens here I got into feeding fermented feed which really made a huge difference in the eggs laid and the chickens health. If you are interested let me know and I will give you the info I have about feeding fermented feed. It does not have enough alcohol content to affect the chickens behavior. Something else I did was to have a dirt floor in their coop. I kept about 8" of wood shavings from a local sawmill on the dirt. That does a lot of things to help the chickens health plus it gives them a lot of scratching to do in bad weather. I think I still have information on that too if you are interested.

Art 

On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 2:46:36 PM UTC-6, gene wrote:

Picked up an egg freshly laid...

No shell...

Never seen such a thing..

Opened it up...was a double yoke..

Gene

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[Gene French]

You had files on your chickens???

Wow...i barely kept my tax receipts...

Lol...

Thank you for the links and info...

I enjoy these simple things ..

People today just dont know what they missed!!

Gene

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