Hen laying soft eggs

[KPChookGranny]

Hello everyone (hugs) I have been following for some time, but never posted. I have been raising chickens for 4 years now. Need some help or suggestions please - have an olive egger born last May 20th, she is a beautiful, calm loving lady & started laying about 6 mos old. Pretty eggs with nice hard shells. Last week she started passing eggs in her sleep on top of poo pile! Perfectly formed, colored but feel like water balloons when you pick them up. I know this can happen once in a while, but now it's been 4 of them. Any help would be greatly appreciated - can't find too much on this on Internet. She did lay 1 good egg with hard shell after 1st 2 soft ones, then she laid 2 more soft ones. She is healthy, eats & drinks well, acts normal, good color on her comb/wattles. Thank you : )

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hello everyone (hugs) I have been following for some time, but never posted. I have been raising chickens for 4 years now. Need some help or suggestions please - have an olive egger born last May 20th, she is a beautiful, calm loving lady & started laying about 6 mos old. Pretty eggs with nice hard shells. Last week she started passing eggs in her sleep on top of poo pile! Perfectly formed, colored but feel like water balloons when you pick them up. I know this can happen once in a while, but now it's been 4 of them. Any help would be greatly appreciated - can't find too much on this on Internet. She did lay 1 good egg with hard shell after 1st 2 soft ones, then she laid 2 more soft ones. She is healthy, eats & drinks well, acts normal, good color on her comb/wattles. Thank you : )

Do you have oyster out for who need it?
Welcome to Backyard Chickens. This is a great place to explore and hang out.

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome back to BYC! Nice to meet you.
Yes, as @pennyJo1960 asked, do you have a container or two of oyster shale available for them to consume free choice at all times? If you are certain this particular pullet is laying soft shelled eggs, I would give her a calcium citrate with vitamin D tablet twice a day every day for one week to restore her reserves.

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Hi, welcome to BYC!

 

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to BYC. Great advice from @pennyJo1960 and @DobieLover .

 

[muddy75]

 

[Nomadicus]

Hello and Welcome to BYC. Glad to have you here in this fun and poultry community.

 

[Debbie292d]

Hiya, and welcome to BYC!

Good advice above! I hope your hen's eggs improve!

 

[CurlyChickenGirly]

Welcome to BYC! Looks like you got good advice! Hope it all goes well! We had a couple girls in our original flock that sometimes had that issue… no matter what we did. (We followed all the advice and still had issues.) We were told that they might have just been especially prone to it.

 

[Jenbirdee]