Here’s an interestingegg factfor you: Warm weather brings thin shells as chickens pant. That’s why you see more soft or shell-less eggs in the summer. Panting helps water evaporate, cooling the chicken. But it also causes a change in the pH balance, which then reduces the calcium avai...
When I learned how innocent cows and egg-laying hens are treated, i stopped eating those and all animal proteins. Mother instincts are to bond with her offspring, but animal ag exploits moms as breeders and forces them to make milk and eggs.. I am very athletic and exercise a lot. I t...
An adjacent issue to that of egg-eating is broodiness.Broody hensare often reluctant to leave the nest box, and there’s a chance that the other hens will fight her for her space. This can lead to egg breakage and then, of course, egg eating. If you have a broody hen that just wo...