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When pullets first start to lay it is not that unusual for you to get some unusual eggs: soft-shelled, no shelled, double yolked, no yolk, extremely thick shelled, or just weird in other ways. Their internal egg making factory is fairly complicated, it sometimes takes a while for them to work...

The standard reply is 20 weeks or when they start laying. I've had some start laying at 16 weeks. I've had some that did not start until 9 months. I almost always have underaged chickens in with mine so they pretty much stay on Starter or Grower year round.

The standard way to resolve this is to feed them all Grower and offer oyster shell on the side. Do not mix oyster with the feed. The chickens that need the oyster shell for egg shells will eat it. The ones that don’t need it won’t eat enough to harm themselves. Other than extra calcium...