Mystery of the shelless egg

[MuskokaChick]

I have 11 hens and this morning at 9:00am I went into the coop to get 10 perfect eggs and one strange looking one...an egg, but just a weird shape. Then this evening I went out to the coop to shut the doors and on the lawn I saw a perfect yolk and white and no sign of shell. How the heck would that happen??? Just weird to me...anyone have this happen?

 

[caspernc]

It seems it is very common. New layer or some sort of upset. Just working out the plumbing! Make sure you offer oystershell even if you feed layer feed!

 

[MuskokaChick]

Thanks...it does seem I am not the only one...

They have oystershells in a dish and grit in another...but they are out and about for the grit, I wonder if I should spread the oyster shell around instead of in a dish???

thanks

 

[TheSpiceGirls]

My girls were laying fine and then all of the sudden no eggs one day and then shell-less eggs the next. I had let the three of them eat a half a watermelon and the next day a whole banana. I think it was too much treat and they were not getting enough of their chicken feed or oyster shells. I cut them off and two days later, back to three perfect eggs a day.