Thank you for that
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she was aledgedly a pullet last year, she laid bigger eggs than the other pullets and htey were good shapes some being double yolkers, then when the shorter days came she stated laying eggs where the sharp end showed a few wrinkles , the the white raggy bit in the egg whatever that is was over large , to me i thought it was an umbilical cord or would turn into one? and when boiled the eggs even when well over 10 days old the shell refused to come away from the egg...
She has just after Christmas stopped laying as passes soft shelled eggs from time to time, she seems well , she is whats called a Sussex Star so yes shes hybrid as are the other hens, the Bluebell is a consistant layer , moulted in one go then laid nice eggs again, the Polish pullets have just started laying and the Plymouth rock bantams are comming back in too.
We bought 4 birds from the same place last year and i am wondering if maybe this bird is not a or was not a pullet ? The other two bird were very poor , produceing very few eggs, Cou-Cou and a Black Rock type , they constantly pulled out thier feathers and whatever we did they still did it , all the other birds were fine in thsi respect, no parasites and thier wormed with both Vermex and Flubenvet .
As the other birds seem fien and have had no sneezes runny eyes etc im wondering if i maybe bought not the best birds going, the bamtams came from a show breeder who had surplus stock
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Thanks for that advice , i do apreciate it you can read a book till your blue in the face but practical experience is always better as chickens dogs and tortoises dont read the books lol