Our 1 year and 4 month old chicken is laying soft-shell eggs

[RRMSG]

Here is a picture of her egg: (It's just membrane, no shell)

She is a Red Star and she has been our best layer, with massive eggs every day and in the beginning she laid twin eggs for a week straight.
She eats the same food as all of our other chickens which is calcium rich for layers. All of the other chickens have been laying eggs with good shells.
Recently she's been laying soft-shell eggs and the other hens eat her soft-shell eggs.
We haven't gotten to the eggs before the other chickens got to them until today when she laid this in the middle of their run after sitting in a nesting box for a while.
A cluster of egg shell came out before this but another chicken ate it and we got this just in time.
Is there a solution for this? We thought it was weird because she's been fine until now from what I know and the other chickens are laying fine.

 

[Roses1421]

Hi! That is odd I never had that happen before. Try giving her crushed boiled egg. Is she getting other calcium food then just layer feed? She could just not be getting enough calcium.
Edit: I forgot to ask is she fine other wise?

 

[RRMSG]

Hi! That is odd I never had that happen before. Try giving her crushed boiled egg. Is she getting other calcium food then just layer feed? She could just not be getting enough calcium.

We occasionally give them oyster shell crumbles but they don't seem to like it and just eat everything else... Thanks for the response, I will try to give her more calcium

 

[Roses1421]

Your welcome, I hope that works out for you!

 

[mschele]

I just found a shell-less egg this evening, too! In the last two weeks, my 6 girls have gone from 3-6 eggs a day to 1 or 2, some days none. I think it's the younger two that are still laying and I'm wondering if this egg is from one of the older ladies trying to get started again. They like egg shells much more than oyster shell and they get some every couple of days, but I'll offer some yogurt, too, and see what happens.

 

[RRMSG]

I just found a shell-less egg this evening, too! In the last two weeks, my 6 girls have gone from 3-6 eggs a day to 1 or 2, some days none. I think it's the younger two that are still laying and I'm wondering if this egg is from one of the older ladies trying to get started again. They like egg shells much more than oyster shell and they get some every couple of days, but I'll offer some yogurt, too, and see what happens.

Thanks for the response! Sounds like a great idea

 

[aart]

Birds that are 14-18 months old in the northern hemisphere maybe ramping down production for molt and winter break.
You can get some weird eggs are that time.