Please help identify with this grayish stringy thing in egg

[pmy23]

One hen has been laying eggs with calcium deposits, and thin shells. Occasionally, I see a little greenish gray spot on the yolk. Today this was inside. She is eating, drinking and behaving normal. Another hen is laying on thin shelled eggs. The other 10 hens are laying perfectly normal eggs. The two hens in question are three year old Easter Eggers.

 

[nuthatched]

It's a yolk follicle or membrane that had calcium sprayed on it. Nasty looking but harmless.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

It's a yolk follicle or membrane that had calcium sprayed on it. Nasty looking but harmless.

That is odd. For curiosities sake, would that feel gritty (seems like it would).
I am racking my brain on how this happens.. seems like the outer membrane should keep this from occurring.
Interesting anyway.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

Wow! I thought I had see all the variables in eggs... You have the dubious honor of showing something new at show-n-tell this morning.

Let us know if anything else happens (and if she is ok, or if something else comes up with her)

 

[pmy23]

Wow! I thought I had see all the variables in eggs... You have the dubious honor of showing something new at show-n-tell this morning.

Let us know if anything else happens (and if she is ok, or if something else comes up with her)

She’s doing OK. She was laying eggs with bumpy shells. Calcium deposits. Then went to thin shelled eggs, and sometimes soft eggs. Some of them dropping from the roost at night. I’ve been crushing calcium tablets into their food. Giving her egg one day, tuna, the next. I had to take another chicken to the vet for prolapsed vent and asked her about it. She said the eggs could be passing through too quickly. Sometimes that is a sign of inflammation. She suggested liquid calcium. (calcium gluconate a couple times a week ). Shell quality has been gradually improving with less of the gray looking calcium deposits inside the egg.

 

[pmy23]

She’s doing OK. She was laying eggs with bumpy shells. Calcium deposits. Then went to thin shelled eggs, and sometimes soft eggs. Some of them dropping from the roost at night. I’ve been crushing calcium tablets into their food. Giving her egg one day, tuna, the next. I had to take another chicken to the vet for prolapsed vent and asked her about it. She said the eggs could be passing through too quickly. Sometimes that is a sign of inflammation. She suggested liquid calcium. (calcium gluconate a couple times a week ). Shell quality has been gradually improving with less of the gray looking calcium deposits inside the egg.

I think my mistake may have been letting the chickens have too much scratch feed. So I’ve cut back on that a lot.

 

[Anita Scott]

I cracked a couple of eggs from last week and both looked like that. She lays huge pinkish eggs. My first layer this year. Her daughter just laid an egg yesterday for the first time.

 

[happyhencamper]

Wow! I thought I had see all the variables in eggs... You have the dubious honor of showing something new at show-n-tell this morning.

Let us know if anything else happens (and if she is ok, or if something else comes up with her)

The calcium seems to be inside too. Same thing happening to my Easter

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

The calcium seems to be inside too. Same thing happening to my Easter

Is she ok? I haven't seen such big surface bumps on mine, but I think I'll look more closely at the egg inside if I see them again. (Currently my girls are rarely laying due to age)