My chicken is laying flat sided eggs?

[christyschickens2022]

I have been getting for the past couple of days one flat sided egg, not sure why... my girls get plenty of calcium and lots of herbs to keep them healthy. Any ideas what it could be? I cracked one of the eggs and the yolk looks fine.

 

[aart]

How old is this bird, in weeks or months, and how long has she been laying??
Has she always laid slabsided eggs?
Could be a respiratory disease, or stress, or a glitchy shell gland.

 

[theoldchick]

https://the-chicken-chick.com/how-hen-makes-egg-egg-oddities/

 

[Nomadicus]

I have a 7 month old RIR hen that is laying daily now a flat sided egg. Opposite sides flat and the other two opposite sides are normal. The first time I didn't pay much attention but now she has done it 3 days in a row. The shells are perfectly normal in hardness. No lack of calcium available.

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Once camera battery is charged I'll post a photo. These eggs look as if they were put in a vise and flattened.

 

[Mrs. K]

I think sometimes people have a false sense of normal egg shapes. It comes from most of us buying eggs in the store. Those are perfect eggs...not because those hens always lay perfect eggs, but because they have been sorted.

There is nothing wrong with those eggs- less that perfect eggs are used in bakeries and cooking and are perfectly safe.

So when people start raising their own eggs and get some odd ball shapes, there is a tendency to think something is wrong...something that should be FIXED.

Really there isn't much you can do if you want to keep the bird. Laying is like most bodily functions, sometimes it looks this way, and sometimes it looks that way.

Mrs K

 

[Nomadicus]

I think sometimes people have a false sense of normal egg shapes. It comes from most of us buying eggs in the store. Those are perfect eggs...not because those hens always lay perfect eggs, but because they have been sorted.

There is nothing wrong with those eggs- less that perfect eggs are used in bakeries and cooking and are perfectly safe.

So when people start raising their own eggs and get some odd ball shapes, there is a tendency to think something is wrong...something that should be FIXED.

Really there isn't much you can do if you want to keep the bird. Laying is like most bodily functions, sometimes it looks this way, and sometimes it looks that way.

Mrs K

Absolutely nothing wrong with them I've just never seen eggs before that you could do this with... I don't think I will incubate these though.

 

[Mrs. K]

No, I don't think I would incubate them either.