Misshapen eggs - ridges

[Buckles]

Hi guys,

All is well with our flock of ex-bats who we adopted a few months ago. They're healthy, well-feathered and laying like champions. No one has any symptoms that I can speak of but one of the girls is laying some funky looking eggs with very pronounced ridges along them.






Has anyone else had this without any symptoms at all? One thread mentioned bronchitis but I don't think we've a problem with that at all. I wondered if it's just because the eggs are so large that maybe they're getting a little stuck on the way out and the calcium deposits are building up more than they need to/or the tension in the bird's tract is causing the strange shape.

 

[holm25]

I have hens that lay goofy eggs and r just fine. They just have an oops here and there.

 

[aart]

Wow, that's a wrinkly one alright!
Shell look very thick, is it?

If there's no 'other' signs of illness, it's probably just a shell gland malfunction.
Considering it's an ex-bat (high production layer) they can often have malfunctions like that.