Lunar looking egg

[Leecie]

I've had chickens lay soft shelled eggs, but has anyone had a chicken lay an egg that is bumpy with crater looking blobs? Is this also a sign of calcium deficiencies?

 

[BlazeJester]

Do you have a picture?

 

[ChickenMack]

Yes my chickens will sometimes lay mis-shapened eggs and I have another one who lays either with a tissue paper shell or none at all. I have read that you don't want to hatch these eggs, I haven't tried, but otherwise, they are fine. Although I think they must be a bugger for the hens.

Also, all of these weird eggs came from hatchery Rhode Island Reds, not my heritage ones and none of my BO's do either.