soft egg

I am a new chicken owner and one of my four chickens has been having some problems. She's always been a regular layer but the past too days she hasnt laid a full egg but more like pooped out 2 very very soft shells on the coop floor. Today she has been having a lot of diarrhea and is now pooping...

Hi everyone, sorry for the long post but I wanted to give as much context as possible! Our chicken story is unconventional as a hen turned up in our garden and was never claimed by anyone (if you can name her breed from the photo I would love to know!). She is a sweet girl and we felt she needed...

Hello All! I have a bantam easter egger that is a year + a few months old. She seems very healthy and isn’t picked on or bullied by anyone else in the flock. However, I notice that every once in a while (which is too common for my liking), she’ll lay a soft shelled or completely shell-less egg...

Please help! I am wondering if this is cause for alarm. My easter egger just laid this soft egg with a puffy coating. Yolk was broken seemed to be most of the inside of the egg. Chicken didn't lay for a few days then laid this egg. - Easter Egger - 9 months old. Normal weight. usually lays...

Hi again. I'm still new to chickens. I have 3. Hennessy, Henocide, and Murder Parade. They're all laying now. Ok in go the issues... buckle up I tend to ramble. Hennessy started laying first and didnt lay in the nesting box until I was able to catch her about to lay and put her in the box...

Tonight my hen came running to me so I could put her to bed as she does every night. I usually take the opportunity to check her over, and tonight I was horrified to see what looked like party of a soft shell egg hanging from her vent. Only it was attached. I didn't know if it was a soft shell...

Hi All, I’m a bit worried about my Olive egger. She was egg bound with a soft egg twice in the last couple months to the point where I gave her warm bath and brought her inside. Thankfully both times the rest came out. I added oyster shells in another dish to the coop (it’s in their food too)...

In the past week I have had two soft shell eggs from two different hens, one is an Ameraucana just under a year (started laying around 9 months) and a silkie or silkie mix (not sure who of these two laid it) the silkie is a little over a year and the silkie mix is just under a year. I have never...

Hello everyone. This morning when I let my chickens out from the coop, I noticed that one of the chickens layed an extremely soft egg and because of it, the egg had popped inside the coop. Then a few minutes after I let them out, there was one hen by my door steps, I thought it was strange that...

First, apologies for not being able to find the list of symptoms/conditions to answer, I will try my best to remember from other posts I've read. I brought a point of lay Sussex hen a few months ago who has finally started laying in the past week. First, I noticed that she consistently did...

I have a 5 month old Light Brahma that has for months made weird noises. Always squeaks when she eats, and sneezes. Not every time, but enough that it stands out. I got two at the same time, and she is noticeably smaller than the other. Again, at first I didn’t think much of it but I’m wondering...

Hello! First time chicken girl here so I’m not sure what is normal and what may need adjusted in my girls diet, if anything at all. I have a mix of 15 girls that I’ve raised from chicks. They were born the end of February. I’ve been feeding them Kalmbach Organic Layer Pellets for a couple...

Hi Everyone, I have a very sweet 1 year old Astolop who has been having diarrhea and appears to be laying soft eggs (the shell isn't fully formed) for a couple weeks now. She had mites, but we got those completely under control and I've been putting diatomaceous earth in the feed, and all...

I have been playing detective for a few days looking for what I thought was a egg eater, but it turns out my favorite hen has been laying shell-less eggs. Today she was free ranging and just plops out an egg yolk with whites streaming out behind. It totally freaked me out. All the girls in my...

Hi there! This isn't something I wanted to have to ask about obviously, but this is of grave concern! My sweet little Butter is normally quite active and will come peck at my leg for some treats. I noticed that she hadn't done that tonight as I was getting ready to shut them in for the evening...

Hello! I've got 3 Wyandotte chickens - 2 hens and 1 rooster. They all seem to get along, although the rooster seems to prefer and hang out with one hen in particular. Both hens have been laying nice eggs. Recently, however, I have noticed that I am seeing some eggs that have too much calcium...

Hi! We had 3 Silkie hens and 2 roosters. Two of our hens started laying soft open eggs recently. Just this morning, one hen passed away. I thought it was a broken egg situation. Our one rooster was mating a hen, and the #2 rooster got into their area of run and knocked the rooster off the hen...