Chicken sometimes lays 2 eggs a day, one hard and one soft

[Pollito Pelon]

Same problem here except it happens to most of the flock. Yesterday they lay 4 eggs and later in the afternoon they lay soft shell. Is there a probability that they are too "flacid"

 

[Thora Bird]

I wonder what’s making them over-deliver the eggs though. Is it a hormone or something they’re eating? Mine is about six months old. Are yours similar?

 

[Pollito Pelon]

I wonder what’s making them over-deliver the eggs though. Is it a hormone or something they’re eating? Mine is about six months old. Are yours similar?

They have about a month laying they were pullets before rooster started mounting them. They have dripping butts most of them except one. I have 3 buff orpingtons and probably a buff orpington naked neck mix. Since I bought the 5 of them at a feed store.
Is there a possibility They might be modified?

 

[Chuckie chicken]

I have 8 RIR pullets around 6 months old. I've been getting soft shelled eggs intermittently. Yesterday morning I got 8 eggs. This morning when I went out, there were 7 eggs in the nesting boxes and two soft shelled eggs in the run, which were likely laid last evening. One of the 7 from this morning is very lightly colored, so I suspect that girl doubled up and the other took the day off. They are all healthy and happy. They free range all day, are fed organic layer feed and have egg shell and oyster shell available all the time.

I figure the over production is a result of these birds being genetically "manufactured" for maximum output rather than the result of any illness or deficiency.

 

[aart]

Is there a possibility They might be modified?

I figure the over production is a result of these birds being genetically "manufactured" for maximum output rather than the result of any illness or deficiency.

The high production hybrid layers are not "manufactured" or "modified".
They are created by crossing specific breeds and lines of birds chosen for high production.
'Created' the old fashioned way, by sexual contact then hatching fertilized eggs.

The 'excess' eggs are due to high level of hormones.
Most second eggs laid with 24 hours are soft shelled because it takes 20 hours to create the shell.

 

[Chuckie chicken]

Thsts why I put "manufactured" in quotations, I wasn't sure how to phrase it correctly. I guess *bred* or *created* for maximum output would be what I was looking for.

The high production hybrid layers are not "manufactured" or "modified".
They are created by crossing specific breeds and lines of birds chosen for high production.
'Created' the old fashioned way, by sexual contact then hatching fertilized eggs.

The 'excess' eggs are due to high level of hormones.
Most second eggs laid with 24 hours are soft shelled because it takes 20 hours to create the shell.

 

[Cheetah Chicks]

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My blue Australorp laid a soft egg her very first time last fall. Then she was a reliable hard shell egg producer. Recently she will sometimes lay 2 eggs a day. The first one will have a nice shell the 2nd one doesn't. Usually there is only about a 12 hour break between the eggs being layed. This has happened 3 times in the last 2 weeks. Two of the times the eggs were not in the nesting box. Twice they were underneath her roosting perch. She has access to oyster shell. Her feeds is for laying hens. She gets extra oats and barley which have calcium and she has access to kale. So, she has access to calcium. She also gets daily probiotics in her water. She isn't molting at the moment. She does get to free-range during the day. But I don't know why she is laying her eggs so close together. Is this a sign of something more serious?
She did have some difficulties with 3 Brahma chickens that we had (they have since been rehomed). And so early on she wasn't growing as much as I assumed an australorp would grow. Since the Brahmas are now gone, even though she is only 10 1/2 months old she is finally putting on weight and looking nice and healthy, but I'm still worried why she would be laying 2 eggs a day. Should I be worried?

My hen gives two egg every morning. One in the early morning and another after 8 to 10 hrs

 

[CrazyPjLady]

The high production hybrid layers are not "manufactured" or "modified".
They are created by crossing specific breeds and lines of birds chosen for high production.
'Created' the old fashioned way, by sexual contact then hatching fertilized eggs.

The 'excess' eggs are due to high level of hormones.
Most second eggs laid with 24 hours are soft shelled because it takes 20 hours to create the shell.

Where might the excess hormones be coming from?

 

[Tverte2389]

I have a similar situation. I had 3 rescue hens and when the second died, it was a month before the next rescues were due so I got a point of lay Dark Sussex (Celia) to keep my lone hen company.

The young hen has steadily been growing and getting to the size of the older one. She’s active and seems healthy and happy. The six are now together, free ranging, all the time.

They have multiple food & water sources and are on an organic layers food and have toasted shells and grit available.

While it’s been really cold in the morning, to sustain the rescues who are really skinny, I mix their mash with warm water, garlic, turmeric, apple cider vinegar and oregano - which they seem to love. They get either spinach/tomatoes/melon/lettuce/probiotic plain organic yoghurt in the afternoon.

One of the new rescues has only ever laid broken or soft eggs - initially erratically and they’d distress and hurt her, but she’s calmed a lot and is no longer distressed and doesn’t show signs of pain (she’s so small and just worn out I think, so don’t expect a huge change).

One night as the others trotted to the coop, Celia was not behaving normally. She was holding her wings out and crouching while waddling. She got on a small lump of oak then got off. At no point did she head towards her usual nest (not in the coop!)

After about 15 minutes, she laid a soft egg on the grass. She took about five minutes to start moving normally again, seemed happy enough and wanted to go into the coop.

The caged hens are older and lay larger, more wobbly eggs than hers. I’m pretty sure that in the last two weeks she’s laid about 4 soft eggs at night (I’ve seen her produce 3), while still laying a normal egg in the morning almost daily - possibly missed a couple but possibly only 1.

Is this a sign of something worrying? I haven’t had a young hen before (she’s 7 months old) is this part of her getting a normal cycle?
I’ve added pictures of tonight’s soft egg, but not sure you can see the flat base.

Any information or advice would be very welocme

Did you ever find anything out? I'm new to chickens and my only laying hen did this today. Perfect egg in the AM and then a soft shell this evening around 830pm. Mind you I did take her food and water and calcium away all day because she has sour crop, but I'm curious why this happened. Thank you!