malformed egg

[rooster-red]

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Not that I can see.
The age seems to be significant, and these birds seem to start reproductive problems at around 2 years.

Shelless eggs, wrinkled eggs and enlongated eggs.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Oh okay. So just egg problems in general. I knew that their productive system starts getting "glitches" about that age, but I have never seen eggs like this one.

Thanks for explaining.
-Kim

 

[eggseattle]

It's not from a hatchery, but from a local woman (Seattle area) who raises chickens. She probably has 100 at a time. The bird is, alledgedly, a Maran, a variety she breeds for their chocolate-colored eggs. Someone suggested the crazy shell might result from exposure to Newcastle disease, but I have no idea if that is the case. The eggs are normal inside and my other birds lay traditional, smooth shelled eggs.

 

[rooster-red]

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My hens that are from breeder stock that are around that age don't have any egg issues.

 

[92caddy]

I used to get eggs like that from a almost 12 year old barred rock hen, but sadly a fox got her one day, Im Thankful that I blowed some of them eggs out and still have the shell to remember her by...............

 

[robinaggie]

Question: What was your initial reaction when you saw that egg?

 

[Chirpy]

I'm just curious if eggseattle ever got her egg figured out. I've been doing research on IB (infectious bronchitis) and believe this is what she's got going on.

steffpeck had a couple of great threads regarding IB with the best info I've found thus far.

 

[priszilla]

I read somewhere that some illness caused that- a respiratory thing.The hen recovers from the initial infection but then has these weird eggs and a lower than average overall production

 

[steffpeck]

Infectious Bronchitis is most likely the cause of your wrinkled egg.