Egg quality of my 2 EE's chalky, new pullets

[Lady of McCamley]

Okay, I've got 2 six month old, almost 7 month old, EE's that are about a month into laying, going on their second month...so they are still relatively new layers. Both are laying the anticipated blue/green egg.

The eggs I am getting are still the smaller, new pullet size eggs, however they are especially chalky and sandy. You can literally rub off globs of chalk on the outside shell...or the whole shell just feels chalky or gritty.

No one else in the flock is like this, including several other pullets new into laying....so I'm not too eager to start manipulating my feed (which btw is Purina 20% layer pellet supplemented with some scratch, ACV in water).

No body appears sick, so I am not expecting IB or anything along that order (had that happen last year, so I know what that can do to laying and egg quality)...but everyone's been in good health for a least 8 months and I did the proper things to quarantine and disinfect for the IB.

They've been recently wormed with Hygromycin B (Rooster Booster Multi Wormer).

I do have free feed grit, some of which is calcite...but I don't think they are getting tons of that...and why only them if it is a case of too much calcite???? (That's my only thought, so I took out the calcite from their area, and that's been gone for several weeks).

I'm hoping this is just new layer kinks but thought I'd ask if anyone else had experienced this with EE's.

Lady of McCamley

 

[Odelia]

I have two EE that are the same age. They have been laying for about 2 weeks now. One lays a lovely green egg. The other lays a funky, chalky, pimply, ugly brown egg.

I am also hoping that this is just a new layer needing to works the kinks out. Also no one else in the flock is having egg issues. So I also am disinclined to believe that it is a matter of feed or too much oyster shell. Though thinking about it I have not put any oyster shell out for them for over a week now. Hope someone has the answer.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

The sand paper bumps and chalk are excess calcium. Since they're new to laying, they may be gobbling up too much calcium. I wouldn't worry about it, they'll level out and get the hang it eventually. I get the odd bumpy egg every now and then from my seasoned layers. And just a little fair warning, you'll probably be finding some much stranger eggs at some point or another.