Heavy egg production causes a severe thirst. Therefore, plenty of clean, fresh drinking water is riecessary for layfing hens. In nine cases out of ten a hen lays soft-shelled eggs because there is a lack of calcium carbonate in her diet. This mineral is really egg shell material. Therefore its absence from the ration results in either thinshelled eggs, or eggs with no shell at all.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 10
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