Hen laying soft shell eggs everyday...and egg bound

I would imagine that soft shelled egg has been held up in her system and has eventually been pushed though by the one behind it or the calcium supplement has eventually enabled her to push it out, so she may not be overproducing. I would keep up the calcium supplement for a week or two and see how she goes.
That certainly seems to be what's happening. It's like her cycle is a bit shorter than the 25 hours it is supposed to be, and the next yolk is dropping too soon and moving through the system a little too early. That would also explain this mornings semi hard shelled egg, after she dropped the soft shell sometime during the night. Seems as if that one spent a little more time in the shell stage, but not enough before this one tonight started moving through.
 
Another update....she laid another wrinkled, semi hard shell egg in the nest this morning, that had no coloring. So one soft shell, and on semi hard shell in 24 hours. Gave her some more plain yogurt this morning with 1/2 a crushed calcium/d3 pill..plus some additional d3.
 
I really want to believe it is not IB, especially since she isn't exhibiting any other symptoms, nor are any of the other birds.
As the article stated there can be other causes of wrinkled eggs, such as a defective shell gland in the oviduct, stress, and I have seen problems with shells after an injury. Usually if only one chicken in a flock is exhibiting a problem, it is something going on within that particular chicken. Many chickens that I have seen over the years that have had problems, they soon will stop laying all together. They may carry on as normal chickens for years, jut not laying. Some may have an acute illness and pass away from a reproductive or crop problem. It helps to do a necropsy whenever you lose one, just to look for reproductive disorders, such as salpingitis and lash eggs, cancer, ascites, and infection (peritonitis.)
 
So..no soft shelled egg last night, and this morning she laid a perfectly normal egg. I'm going to keep up with daily yogurt with the 1/2 crushed calcium/d3 pill..and a drop or two of cod liver oil...that's what I gave her yesterday. Hopefully this was just a glitch in the plumbing, and she's recovering.
 
Thanks everyone! It seems we are out of the woods on this one. My hen is laying normally again. Two days in a row now. I think I'll back off on the extra yogurt and calcium/d3 pills and see how it goes. Must have just been a glitch in the egg works.
 

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