Crazy Egg! I'm worried..**Pictures**

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willkatdawson

willkatdawson

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My 1.5 year old Barred Rock hen has been laying wrinkled looking eggs for a good while now. Last week I noticed what looked like a piece of paper in her vent and when I gently pulled it a leathery eggs shell came out. This moring she's eating and drinking, but her vent is for lack of a better word "pulsing" (opening and shutting) Of corse she's my favorite and I'm worrind she's going to get in real trouble with this situation. Is there anything I can do to help her. She has purena Layena and free choice oyster shells. BTW her eggs shells are paper thin.
Thanks... Oh yea they are huge eggs..so large I can't shut the top of the xlarge egg crates.
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Like Chicken people said, sprinkle the calcium on top of their food. I do that every day and have no thins shells. Only experience I have with thins shells is when one first begins to lay.
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I'd sprinkle some oyster shell in with the food, that will strengthen the egg shells. It looks to me like she pushed hard to get that sucker out, causing the wrinkles since the shells are so thin.
 
Go check out the MERICK'S VETERINARY MANUAL it is helpful to me when I can't figure something out. It sounds like she is trying to get somehing to come out not sure tho .
 
Everything I've read here mostly says do not put oyster shell on her food. Chickens are very good at knowing how much calcium they need, so if she knows where the oyster shell is then don't worry about it. If you put it in her food she's not gonna be able to choose how much she eats, and she may get too much. Some of my hens lay wrinkled eggs as well, usually in either the middle or the very top or bottom of the egg. It seems like while the shell is being put on the egg it gets imprinted with the shape/wrinkles of their egg laying parts. I don't know if that's a problem, but I haven't had any issues. If you're really worried about it (and no one more experienced chimes in) you can "reset" her. Put her in a cage with very little light, and it'll stop her laying. Do that for a couple of weeks and then gradually increase the light so she starts laying again. I'm gonna find another thread on here, a lady had some really funky stuff coming out of her chicken and we'll see if it's anything like what you're seeing. BRB!
 
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You might check through the Egg Quality Handbook for shell defects. I saw three or four different defects that might apply.

Egg Quality Handbook
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/ourbooks/1/egg-quality-handbook/

I have one hen that regularly lays an egg somewhat like that. None of my others do. I can tell it is only one because she has a distinctive color to her eggs, a pinkish purple. I think mine looks more like a body check egg but I don't see any of the suggested causes apply to my situation. Since she is the only one, I think it is probably genetic. It's a shame since I like the color of her eggs and they are large eggs, but I will not be keeping any of her offspring in my laying and breeding flock.
 
if she has free choice Oystershell, she may need extra vitamin D to help use the Calcium, give her vitamins and electrolytes in her water or PolyViSol (non Iron) in her water or beak 3-4 drops per quart of water or by beak.
 

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