Eggs with no shells?!

[aart]

You can also start saving your egg shells from your kitchen and letting them air dry a month or so and crushing them back to the chickens.

Only takes a few days to dry the shells.

 

[Cooptown Lady]

At least one of your hens desperately needs more calcium.
Shelless eggs can lead to reproductive death so you need to act fast.
Swithch to a layer feed with calcium. Mix it at first with your remaining starter so they get accustomed to the new stuff.
I always recommend offering oyster shell and grit on the side. They need granite grit in order to chew and process the oyster shell adequately. You can also start saving your egg shells from your kitchen and letting them air dry a month or so and crushing them back to the chickens. Grit and oyster shell are a couple of the cheapest things you can buy for your chickens and both last a long time. It's like extra insurance for there health.
If you could figure out which hen is laying these shelless eggs you could feed her broken pieces of tums tablets to give her a boost.
Good luck!

Thanks for the thorough reply and for your concern. I should have included more details . . . .

My hens get a 16% layer feed with calcium plus grit and oyster shell. I let them out of their run for one hour every day. Treats are limited to scratch, 1/8 c. each (a half cup for 4 hens).

All are healthy, much vitality, eating well, glossy feathers, bright eyed and bushy tailed!

After I commented here, I researched eggs without shells and hit on the probable reason: dramatic change in weather. We in AZ went from highs in the 90s to overnight lows in the 30s in less than 2 weeks.

I appreciate you explaining the possible seriousness of eggs without shells and will keep a close eye on the situation. 3 of the 4 hens were in nesting boxes (with the 4th waiting her turn!) a few min. ago. Will check soon for eggs.

 

[Cooptown Lady]

UPDATE!

Four perfect eggs this a.m. from my flock of four hens!

Phew! (sigh of relief)

It's times like this that I realize how much I love my girls.

 

[onwingandhoof]

Is it possible chickens can lay eggs with no shells?! Here’s our situation. We currently have 4 five month old hens that have been laying.
We also have four month old cinnamon queens and four month old Easter Eggers not laying. I am still currently only feeding them the starter chick crumbles feed. Not sure at what point it’s safe to give them feed with calcium? We are new to chickens and I thought you were supposed to wait until they were laying eggs and I wasn’t sure the four month old pullets could be given feed with calcium??
And when I do switch feeds do I also need to supplement with the oyster shells separately?? I have no idea what we’re doing lol! TIA

Mine dont like the oyster shell. So whatever eggs we eat, we save the shells and bake them at 200 degrees for a out 20 min. We break those up and allow the girls to free feed on it. Theyll flock to it!

 

[aart]

Mine dont like the oyster shell. So whatever eggs we eat, we save the shells and bake them at 200 degrees for a out 20 min. We break those up and allow the girls to free feed on it. Theyll flock to it!

Mix the OS into the crushed egg shell.