Egg with a hole and mystery layer

chkva

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Mar 20, 2015
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I'm sure this is just because my chickens are new to laying just this week, but why is there a hole in this egg? They eat layer feed and get crushed up egg shells daily along with fresh fruits or veggies at night after they've eaten layer feed all day.

What chicken could've laid this? It was under the stairs. My Olive egger has laid green eggs almost every day sometimes every other in the nesting box and my two red sex links I've yet to see them lay, but there have been random bad eggs (only membrane no shell) after the olive egger laid for that day. It's a hard white shell, but none of my chickens should lay white eggs.

Egg is dirty because it was laid on the ground and it just downpoured recently.
 

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Wonky eggs can be from stress. New layers are under stress from all the new sensations and instincts. It can take some a month or two to work out the glitches. A single weird egg I wouldn't worry about. The hole could be from pecking as sometimes eggs laid on the ground will be eaten, or at least tasted.
 

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