New eggs differences - Why?

[fpscabs]

Being that our 5 gals are just starting out in their egg laying careers, of which only 3 seem to be doing all the work load as of today, we, starting out as our first week full of eggs have some questions. Girls about 5 1/2 months old.
Feed is Layenna with a bunch of greens added and a small amount of scratch

Earning their keep:
--Cuckoo Marans
--Suppose to be a Barred Rock, but just now getting more white/gray tipped feathers. Mostly black/blue in tone
--New Hampshire Red. Torpedo layer
Not laying yet:
--EE still closed vent
--Golden Lace Wyandotte Still closed vent

--Why was one egg a long and skinny shape?
--Why are there some eggs that have such soft shells?
It has been over 100 degrees.
--Normal for a hen lay two eggs in one sitting? Today, the CM layed 2 matching eggs, very small. She also has been a machine with her dark brown eggs.
--Is diet and heat reason for the 6 super soft shells? All seem to come from the same hen, mystery BR.
--Looking at the eggs, why are some so large and so small from the same hen? Do they even out?
--Can you still eat the super soft shelled eggs? Time to keep an issue?
--Any other thoughts for these rookies?

Picture of most of the first weeks worth>minus 4 too soft to keep together next to a ruler. The two dark brown eggs on bottom and the two round, light brown eggs, at the top [today at the same time, both picked warm] are from the CM.

Picture in a cartoon for size reference

Thanks
Fritz...

 

[Zahboo]

It takes a while for the normal eggs to come. Oyster shell thickens the eggshells. Look like normal first eggs to me.

 

[fpscabs]

Still have some question about eating the soft eggs or just getting rid of them. Any answers please.

 

[Mahonri]

I wash and eat the soft shelled eggs. kids thing I'm gross... I say, "WHAT?"

 

[Silkiefan]

I swear I'm totally guessing, so if I'm wrong, correct me gently, but I wonder if you could whip up those weird ones, shell & all and feed 'em back to the hens for calcium?
I'm still waiting for my first eggs, but from what I've heard / read / seen, the first ones are weird looking and a little unappetizing. I wonder too - how LONG of a period of time is normal before hens start laying regular eggs? Sorry "fpscaps" didn't mean to add to your post... just figured it pertained...

 

[Cindy in PA]

I think egg shape is simple heredity. I have one RIR that lays a long skinny egg and has since day one. It is just not as nice as the "egg shaped" BR eggs. It is also lighter in color.

 

[gardenak]

I bet the long, skinny ones taste the same though. I can't wait until I get mine- I can picture it now. . .a hot pan with sizzling butter, a fresh egg, with the golden yolk standing up high to catch the sea salt. O.K., I'll stop now.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

I have 8 laying hens. Sometimes an egg is long and skinny, sometimes not. If the egg is long and skinny every day, I guess your chicken likes it that way!

The first time i tried to pick up a soft egg, what a horrific sensation.

 

[vnploveschickens]

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As long as you cook those eggs, scrambled is great, you can feed it back to the chickens for calcium and protein. My chickens love scrambled eggs.

 

[jeanniejayne]

As long as I figure I have found them early, and they are intact, I have eaten or cooked with every single "snake egg" as I call "em. And they were delish! my very first egg looked like a butt! It was two soft partially fused together. Tasted great, though, and a double-yolker!


Wierd is that I think the same girl is sometimes just dropping them in the litter from her roost, or laying them in wierd places, like the floor of the run, right out in the open.