Little help with soft egg shells & chickens eating egg

[Boatgirl48]

One of my girls has started laying either in the evening or very early morning and her eggs are really soft shelled. I squashed one open yesterday and there was blood in it.
Also I have noticed that the other girls are eating these eggs before I can get to them in the morning. They are fine with all other eggs laid during the day. Has anyone any ideas?
Thanks.
Kim

 

[Eggcessive]

You might try giving more calcium in the diet by feeding back crushed egg shells or oystershell in a container so they can free feed it, but soft or shell-less eggs are common in new hens getting the kinks out. All chickens will eat an egg like that, so there is not a risk of creating egg-eaters. Sometimes a chicken will always lay an egg with blood in it or something wrong, and you can just cull the chicken or feed those eggs back to the chickens.

 

[Boatgirl48]

Eggcessive - Thanks for your reply. I already cook up their eggshells and feed back, they love them. The girls are not young, they are ex-"freerange". Google has me worried that it might be Egg Drop Syndrome so I'll give the coop a real good clean out just to be sure. Don't even know which chook is laying these so might have to do a bit of seperating until I find her.