text: In reply to message75092: Yes, I've been hearing about it. I'm hearing it's due to the commercial feed, whether it's something in the feed that's causing it,,or rather something that's not in the commercial feed, such as vitamins or what not. My family feeds our chickens feed from the store (commercial) and table scrabs, egg shells, watermelon, fruits, heck even pasta, and we have no issues with our birds laying, we still get roughly 1 egg per bird per day.