Egg with weird shape

[Naisha]

Hi guys! One of my hens is laying eggs with weird shape, it’s not the first time, and some days ago the shell was a bit too thin, so I added more calcium and now it’s hard again. The upper part that has this weird shape has thicker shell. Is there something I should do or you recommend? I took a picture:

 

[Naisha]

Oh wait I just found another post where a user posted a very interesting link about weird eggs you can find. I’ll share it here again, I’m reading all of it

https://cluckin.net/abnormal-chicken-eggs-35-egg-problems-explained.html

 

[aart]

The upper part that has this weird shape has thicker shell. Is there something I should do or you recommend?

I doubt there's anything you can do.
She's got an odd shell gland.

 

[3KillerBs]

I have two birds who lay odd eggs -- one strangely round, the other with calcium deposits and not evenly oval.

Nothing I can do about it, but I won't breed either of them.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Oh wait I just found another post where a user posted a very interesting link about weird eggs you can find. I’ll share it here again, I’m reading all of it

https://cluckin.net/abnormal-chicken-eggs-35-egg-problems-explained.html

An interesting link, I had not seen that before. Thanks for posting.

The way I look at egg shell problems is that everyone is entitled to an oops every now and then. The egg laying process is pretty complicated, both in forming the egg and the process of laying the egg. If it is a one-off occurrence I don't get worried at all though of course you pay attention. It's when it repeats regularly that you need to really pay attention.

Yours appears to be repeating but it's still not time to panic. Problems are very common in pullets just starting to lay. As complicated as the egg making and laying process is sometimes it takes a pullet a while to work out the glitches in her egg making and egg laying process. There are so many things that can go wrong that I'm surprised by how any get it right from the start when I see a strange egg,

To me that looks like an egg that the hen started to lay and for some reason pulled it back into the shell gland. Different reasons that could happen. I'd consider that egg perfectly safe to eat but also would not hatch that egg. If it is a regular occurrence I would not hatch any of that hen's eggs, concerned it may be hereditary.

 

[ChickenLeg]

I get a handful of those after the girls take a break and then start back laying. Mine always seem to work themselves out after a few weeks. Almost all my chickens are blue egg layers so sometimes its two toned blue when they come out weirdly shaped, like the one in your pic. One half is usually a darker blue with rough calcium bumps then the rest is usually an even shade of a paler blue. Keep us posted if she starts laying normal eggs again

 

[Naisha]

Thank you very much guys, it’s a relief! I’ll keep an eye on them. Today she hasn’t laid any egg so I couldn’t see it.