all our girls are laying now. we have been getting one egg per hen, six eggs a day, for a week or more. occasionally we get only five. then yesterday, for the first time ever, we got seven! this was the seventh egg. inside was normal, but the shell was soft and pliable. we had heard that we would get a lot of variation in the eggs at first. but this one surprised us. even with crushed oyster shell supplements it appears they don’t have quite enough calcium to make two whole eggs shells a day.
failed egg of a newly-laying golden buff chicken
saint paul, minnesota
Interesting! I had to read the details to see what in the world that was. One of the most fascinating things I’ve ever learned was when a student brought in a jar of eggs that were all from the same chicken. All different sizes. I had never really thought about the fact that a chicken must have more than one egg in there at the ready all the time. Glad I’m not a chicken!