Deformed soft egg.

[Ducclelover10]

My Delaware has been laying for a while now, she is about two years old. She has laid a soft egg before, about a year ago. And she just laid another soft egg yesterday. And then today she popped out a sorta soft sorta hard cracked egg and it had a TAIL!!
Should I be concerned? (I'll put a pic up in a minute)

 

[TimBaumann]

I don't think that you should be concerned. Is she getting enough calcium? Usually this is the cause for soft or thin-shelled eggs. Some of my hens have also laid soft eggs in a short time interval but I just gave them some more layer pellets and they laid nice eggs again the next day! I actually like getting soft or deformed eggs because they always looks so weird and are quite interesting!

 

[Ducclelover10]

This is the egg. I have been trying to give her oyster shells, but she doesn't seem to want them.

 

[aart]

Did she lay thru the winters? She might just be at the end of her quality egg laying.

 

[Ducclelover10]

Did she lay thru the winters? She might just be at the end of her quality egg laying.

No she didn't lay thru the winter. I don't think she's done because my Americana is four and she lays through the winter and she lays every other day still.

 

[aart]

Hopefully she's just going thru a bump in the egg road and will be back to normal soon.

 

[Ducclelover10]

Good news! She just laid a normal hard-shelled egg!