First time I've seen someone using the same app for the 🐝 that I do! Nice!

1. Less, please, less!

At least BeefWatch sounds cool (from a sometime reader of All About Feed)

Perfect opportunity to share my only fly sex pic! Probably could have cropped less, wish they were both in focus

I love the good morning bugs so much! Thanks for continuing to post them.

Same!!!!

I can remember browsing in that Nordstrom, feels like another life ago. So strange.

Oh! I should have said up front that I found her lethargic and puffed with eyes closed and with pieces of eggshell trailing out of her vent

Long term I would like to switch back to organic feed so I need to find something that will work for her to get enough calcium. Unfortunately she is my smartest hen and I had to medicate her once 3 years ago and she has not forgotten and will not take anything the slightest bit suspicious from me!

Finally, vet recommended Purena Layena feed as the calcium there is supposedly more digestible. I normally feed organic so was reluctant to change, but decided to see if it would help - her shells are thicker now so it does seem to be doing the trick

Apparently it is more difficult to lay a weak egg than a strong one, and she would have potentially strained to try to pass the pieces.
Of course by the time the vet saw her, she was already on the mend - I also gave her fluids which I think helped her recover as she was refusing food & water

The vet thought that she was having trouble assimilating calcium as the eggshell was very thin (hence breaking in the way out) and none of the rest of my flock have issues (and I use layer feed and provide oyster shell).

Causation or correlation? I can't deny the facts of the case

She looks pretty healthy in that pic, but earlier that day she was classic sick chicken (lethargic, all puffed up, eyes closed) and had broken eggshell trailing out of her vent.
She recovered just fine.