Funky looking first egg. Concern?

[LoreenH]

One of my girls laid a 'rubber' egg too. Mine looked normal, just didn't have a shell. I cut it open and scrambled it for the girls, I just couldn't eat it myself.

 

[HollysFlock]

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Hehehe, it does seem that nearly everyone I've met in Indiana does have some chicken knowledge, might boost my newcomer credibility points, eh? Granted, I'm in the middle of nowhere so I have quite the selection bias. Also, MetalSmitten, I'm new to Indiana but I can confidently say that Bloomington is my favorite portion of the state thus far. I wish there were more scenery further north! Corn doesn't count.

 

[MetalSmitten]

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where are you near, if ya don't mind my asking?

i'm actually right outside of bloomington, but nobody's ever heard of my area so i list bloomington for reference hah. been here about 2 years now, so we're still relatively new also. i really, really enjoy where i'm at though, love my area. indiana i think has a little bit of something for everyone, it's been nice.

 

[ChickChick0811]

I went outside this afternoon to find the same exact looking thing! So glad to see this and my chicken is ok. Did your chicken start laying any normal ones yet or should I be expecting this again?

 

[TigerLilly]

If she has just started laying, these kinds of anomallies (sp?) are 'normal.' It takes their system a little bit of time to 'get it right,' but she should be laying 'normal' eggs soon.
I'm with everyone else that said scramble it & feed it back to them.
Keeping in on display would be funny, though...

 

[sdeneen2001]

I don't eat any that don't have a solid shell, I just scramble them for the dogs or chickens for fear of bacteria that the shell would keep out. But no cause for concern, just a first time "error"

 

[karlamaria]

I started my girls out early with yogurt
, and all calcium enriched foods. I have never found any egg with soft shells or strange looking eggs. We provide calcium also but they never touch it. I was to worried about feeding my girls there shells back, so instead give yogurt each day and lots of veggies. Sounds like your birds need more calcium

 

[HollysFlock]

It was indeed a double-yoker which was cool! The inside of the larger part (towards my palm) was a totally normal egg. The smaller part (towards my fore-finger and thumb) was mostly a yolk, not much white. They were joined by a tiny pin-hole of the inner membrane while the outer membrane covered them both. So cool! After much debate, it was scrambled and fed to the chickens. It did take some time, however, to convince my husband that this would not cause egg-eating behavior since they can't *cook* the egg and the scrambled egg we give them does not even come close to resembling the egg they know. Sigh.

Thank you all for your information and encouragement!!!

MetalSmitten, we are near Lafayette so just a couple hours north of you. It is very different from home (Michigan) but it is slowly growing on me. Whenever we have a free weekend, and chicken-sitters, we head either to Turkey Run or down towards your neck of the woods. Surely beats corn and soybean which consume the horizon here.

ChickChick0811, I still can't figure which girl laid this lovely egg but we have since had a perfectly normal egg of the same cream-ish color laid so I'm hoping it's from the same girl and she's worked it out. We haven't had anymore funky eggs though. I wish they would check in/out of their boxes so I knew better who was doing what.

karlamaria, ya know, I recommend yogurt to people for good calcium but it never occured to me that it would be the same for a chicken. Geesh.

Thanks for the a-ha! moment!!! We've given them yogurt, but not consistently; maybe we'll try that after the bag of Oyster Shell (not really ok with that) is gone.

 

[chicmom]

haha! That totally looks like a baloon animal a clown would make! I've gotten a membrane (shell-less) egg many times, but not a conjoined twins egg like that one! Take a look at this one.....Similar to yours, but with a shell:

It's the first egg my olive egger hen ever layed. Then after that, she layed quite a few smaller eggs with a seam in them, looking sort of like two eggs stuck together like this one. I call it a "Frankenstein Egg"!

Thanks for sharing! Don't worry, your hen will get better at egg laying with time....Mine did,
Sharon