Thanks everyone, the mystery has been solved!
The squishy egg apparently belongs to my Silver Laced Wyandotte. She is coming up on 6 years old. I read in several places that it is normal for an older chicken to lay a soft shell egg sometimes. Particularly high production hens and she has...
Thanks for that! Ok, then I will suspect my Silver Laced Wyandotte. No one else lays an egg even remotely close in color. I thought her egg was darker than that and the last few she gave me seemed hard. Last week when first soft shell appeared, I immediately tossed more oyster shell near the...
I have to chime in here. I have had 2 surprises in the past week. Last week, I found a broken egg that looks like it fell from the roosting rafters onto the water bucket lid and splatted. I went to clean it up and the shell was paper thin. I thought, hmmm... could one of my newest chicks be...