Soft shell egg

I have had my older hens from time to time to lay soft shell eggs.Make sure they are getting  enough calcium to give their eggs what they need to get hard.I feed mine the shells and have put a small dish of calcium in their coop so that they have access to it when they need it.Good luck and don't worry yet.It is too early to tell.

It is not unusual for first eggs to be "unusual".  It is very possible it is a first-timer. 

Sometimes what you feed them can affect the shells too. My mom brought over some plain old hot dog buns to feed to our chickens. I try to not even feed our family those types of food products but my mom was trying to be nice and didn't understand my concerns, they are chickens. They eat all our other scraps and compost! So we gave them some. The next day, not even 24 hours later their eggs were all soft, we could still pick them up but it was just the membrane and a soft powdery coating on the outside. The next day they were fine, rock hard as usual! We don't feed them that anymore. I would assume it might do something nearly as sinister in our bodies. If it isn't building health, it's probably destroying it. Any way, that little story aside, on a rare occasion, new layers sometimes give us a goofy egg now and then but never more than one that is soft like that. Hope everyone is well and that you don't anymore squishies:lol:
Kat

mine did the same thing a few hours ago. she left it on my steps, she has laid her other two in the nest box. it was in a small puddle and it was squishy like the membrane was only covered with some powdery shell stuff.  on a side note- she was a "ameraucauna" (at TSC which I've been told is actually an easter egger) she lays light beige colored eggs. my two others that are laying lay greenish and light blue eggs.

we got 2 soft shelled this morning along with 3 from i guess our usual layers so i am guessing i have 2 pullets that both started laying and havent got the factory parts in proper working order going to see if it improves over the next couple days