Check out my BA's soft shelled egg! *PIC*

[Robin'sBrood]

I picked this egg up yesterday not long after she laid it and it didn't feel different than her other eggs, just had the weird coloring. Later that evening when I picked it up again, to put it in the frig, the shell started denting due to the softness of it.

I cracked it this morning and the insides were completely normal. It was a cool looking egg but Betty is getting some extra calcium in the form of crushed egg shells from now on.

 

[debilorrah]

Is she a new layer? Mine are always like that when they first start laying.....

 

[Robin'sBrood]

No, she isn't a new layer, she's 13 months old.

 

[debilorrah]

Robin'sBrood :

No, she isn't a new layer, she's 13 months old.

Do they have oyster shell? If it is a one time thing I wouldn't worry. Sometimes their "works" go all caddywampus!​

 

[My Little Sister's Farm]

Sometimes a system misfires. I've heard of eggs getting "thrown" back up inside the get a second set of whites and another shell. I'd up the calcium available but she may just be due for a good molting to refresh her system.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Update... well, Betty didn't lay an egg yesterday but she laid a big, pretty, normal shelled one today.

 

[hungryhensfarm]

Maybe that was just a freak thing laying the soft shelled egg. Never heard of a hen laying one like that before. Very interesting.