The body of new layers are known to come up with some very creative faults within their first eggs. A cycle is hard to get going as well, she may take breaks between eggs, and have some very interesting ones. I’ll just give you an insight on the types of eggs you could find, and what causes them
Soft Shelled Egg
This is caused by lack of calcium in their diet. Only a small amount of calcium is able to coat the membrane resulting in an easily breakable egg. This can be fixed by giving a feed that is higher in calcium, and offering oyster shell. (Thanks to articles below and
@sumi)
Fairy Egg or Misshapen
These are nothing to worry about it happens when an object enters the oviduct and is mistaken as a yolk and is is enclosed in egg white membrane and a shell. They are mostly fun to look at, and do not have a yolk. There will be times you find a micro egg with a yolk, I’ve never had a true fairy egg, just yolked micro eggs. These are even more fun because you can make tiny breakfast! It’s more sign of worry in older hens, but in pullets, it’s a mini sized fried egg! (Thanks to articles below and
@sumi)
Double yolk
This is normal and fun, however these eggs can be hard for the hen to expel and can become egg bound. Most occasions they are able to expel it on their own, leaving you a nice Double yolked gift! It happens when multiple mature yolks are released together. You can have more than just two. I once found a TRIPLE yolked DUCK egg! Imagine the size will you! (It’s not recommended you incubate these because the mortality rate is extremely high) (thanks to articles below and (these can happen with adult birds to, but is more likely to be a sign of health issue when identified in them) (thanks to the articles below and
@sumi)
Blood on shell
This isn’t anything to be worried about in new layers. It can be a sign of vent pecking but is likely from ruptured blood vessels in the vagina from excess straining. It can be very common in pullets but is more likely to be seen on an egg that was difficult to expel. (Thanks to
@sumi on how this is caused ❤)
Wrinkled Egg
these eggs can have few wrinkles to many. What you’re looking at would just be from a mild disturbance in the eggs calcification process. (Thanks to
@sumi for info on wrinkled eggs, RIP ❤)
When I was learning about all this last year/early this year, I got a lot of information from some helpful articles. I did not copy these directly, I haven’t even looked at them since, (except For Sumi’s article, I got my information directly From it to explain Bloody eggs and Wrinkled eggs which I don’t know enough about. I used her article to write the explanations in those two, but they were re-worded) but My information is based on what I learned from them last year.
@aart pointed out I should probably mention them, and I will do that, if anyone needs help understanding any of these egg issues, you can go to one of them.
https://cluckin.net/abnormal-chicken-eggs-35-egg-problems-explained.html (I saved this one this summer when her egg issue was popping up again)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/
https://thefrugalchicken.com/abnormal-chicken-eggs/
https://www.communitychickens.com/egg-shell-problems-causes-and-cures/
This isn’t all of them, but they are the only ones I still have saved on my phone. I didn’t look at them again so hopefully they’re reliable. Happy reading!
@sumi’s article explains how the issues can occur, I recommend you look at it OP, it probably explained better than I did.
and the eggs change so much! They’re 9 mo, and I just collected this huge strange one today!
