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When a brown egg laying hen nears her yearly laying limit her eggshells become progressively lighter. Her internal supply of pigments are exhausted and she will need to lay in another store of brown pigments before she lays again. It may be educational if you'll snap a good close up of her...

No shell on an egg of an 8 month old chicken is nothing to worry about. An 18 month old chicken laying more than one or two such eggs hower is cause for worry.