1 chicken lays thin shelled eggs

[ESofVA]

I have 1 Comet that lays an XL eggs, sometimes double yolked. The shell is thin and if I don't collect it soon after laying it gets crushed by the other chickens laying their eggs in the same nest boxyes, they have plenty of boxes, they just mostly like to sit in the same place although they do occasionally pick another. None of my other chickens lay eggs as large or as thin shelled as these and they all get oyster shell as well as some egg shell.
Her eggs have no lumps or wrinkles but they feel likNe sandpaper! Anyone know why? I am changing out some of my flock this fall and think as much as I hate to, that this should be one that goes.

 

[Judy]

I think you're probably right. Since she's the only one, I imagine she has a defect in her shell gland.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publi...ndbook/16/thinshelled-eggs-and-shellless-eggs

 

[crazy4chickens5]

I think you're probably right. Since she's the only one, I imagine she has a defect in her shell gland.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publi...ndbook/16/thinshelled-eggs-and-shellless-eggs

Yeah I was thinking calcium deficiency, but that's out of the picture...

I have 1 Comet that lays an XL eggs, sometimes double yolked. The shell is thin and if I don't collect it soon after laying it gets crushed by the other chickens laying their eggs in the same nest boxyes, they have plenty of boxes, they just mostly like to sit in the same place although they do occasionally pick another. None of my other chickens lay eggs as large or as thin shelled as these and they all get oyster shell as well as some egg shell.
Her eggs have no lumps or wrinkles but they feel likNe sandpaper! Anyone know why? I am changing out some of my flock this fall and think as much as I hate to, that this should be one that goes.

Did you buy the comet, or did you incubate it? If you bought it, where did you buy it? Because it is probably a genetic problem.

 

[ESofVA]

I bought it from a feed store in the town where my oldest son lives. I don't know who they order from.

 

[crazy4chickens5]

Yeah. It sounds like it is genetics. She will most likely lay those her whole life.

 

[ESofVA]

Geez!! Last week she laid one with no shell at all. My others are all laying nice eggs with excellent shells on them! I have 10 new chicks for laying hens and a lot of the ones I have will be switched out this fall when the chicks begin to lay.