Laid an egg without the shell???

[CatsCrazyCoop]

My girls just started laying...
They are about 24 weeks old...
I went to say my goodnights, and in one of the nesting boxes was an egg covered in a puddle of what looked to be yolk...
...is this normal?

HELP!

 

[real_redhead]

Yes that is normal, you will see all kinds of weird eggs as they start to lay. I feed mine back thier egg shells. When I use the egg I microwave it a bit to dry it out and then crush it up. I also started supplementing with oyster shell because I have one who lays normal eggs and soft shelled eggs. I call them soft shelll because they have a membrane that is very soft inside there is a normal egg but the shell isn;t hard. I scramble these and feed them back to the girls.

 

[CatsCrazyCoop]

Oh wow! Thanks!

I didn't know they could eat their shells!

Do you mix the oyster shells in their food? I have it - but they don't eat that or the grit on its own.