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I'm puzzled... I know lots of different breeds have different colour eggs, but ex-batts having very white (chalk coloured) eggs?
Is there something wrong with the chook's?
Reason I ask is that it's the 4 new girl's I picked up for a friend 2 weeks ago, but when my friend was telling me about the egg's all go normal colour after being in the fridge for a while - i thought nothing of it, and thought she was going bonkers.
Anyhow, I asked her to show me the egg's that she had, and they were very white, and if they had been bigger I probably would of mistaken them for duck eggs!
She had also mentioned that she had been only getting 1 or 2 eggs a day from the 4 girl's, which I thought might be down to settling in. It still hasn't improved, some days she don't get any.
They have a good size run with lots of greenery and what's left of the grass that was in there. Fed on layers pellets, have mixed grit... and water available constantly.
The other thing, their poo is enormous... for a chicken anyway. If I didn't know any better I would of said it was a small dog's.
Occasionally it's partially yellow (what I refer to as an eggy-poo), I don't know if this is normal or not, but i've never had any problems from my girl's like that. Yet I got all of them from the BHWT, not sure if they came from the same battery farm as they were collected on different days (a month apart).
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Is there something wrong with the chook's?
Reason I ask is that it's the 4 new girl's I picked up for a friend 2 weeks ago, but when my friend was telling me about the egg's all go normal colour after being in the fridge for a while - i thought nothing of it, and thought she was going bonkers.
Anyhow, I asked her to show me the egg's that she had, and they were very white, and if they had been bigger I probably would of mistaken them for duck eggs!
She had also mentioned that she had been only getting 1 or 2 eggs a day from the 4 girl's, which I thought might be down to settling in. It still hasn't improved, some days she don't get any.
They have a good size run with lots of greenery and what's left of the grass that was in there. Fed on layers pellets, have mixed grit... and water available constantly.
The other thing, their poo is enormous... for a chicken anyway. If I didn't know any better I would of said it was a small dog's.
Occasionally it's partially yellow (what I refer to as an eggy-poo), I don't know if this is normal or not, but i've never had any problems from my girl's like that. Yet I got all of them from the BHWT, not sure if they came from the same battery farm as they were collected on different days (a month apart).
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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