We got eggs!!!

I did cheat and bought a laying hen but I have 4 laying now. I picked different breeds of chickens to get a variety of different eggs. We actually log our eggs to keep count of who is laying and how much. We know that chickens after a few years are what you call spent. They still produce eggs but not as many. They also produce less in the winter due to less sun and of course increase in summer. They usually have small eggs to start but they perfect their eggs in a few months. We freaked when we found a soft egg. This is normal though when your hens start laying. If you have older hens that are laying soft eggs this could mean lack of calcium. I buy oyster shell  at my feed store and it cost me .50 a pound. You can also dry out their eggs and smash them and feed it to your hens.