Shell less duck egg with broken yolk next to it

[casportpony]

So yesterday (Friday) she laid a shelled egg followed by they soft yellow one?

 

[onaharley]

So yesterday (Friday) she laid a shelled egg followed by they soft yellow one?

Yes

 

[Miss Lydia]

I found a soft shelled egg from my Buff this afternoon on the ground.

 

[onaharley]

Sorry guys for the hit and miss posts I was doing their nightly chores...I'm going to reread those posts to give clarity....

 

[onaharley]

All good! I was just making sure of amount and backing up Kathy's advice...



That's not good... looks like she is also getting 2 eggs down the chute at once too...

Is she your only layer, for sure?

I need to specify... she is not getting two eggs down the chute at once. One must have came at 7:30 this morning in the pool when I them out of the pen, then another came in her favorite spot....around 3pm. She came up to my sliding glass around 3pm.... I guess to tell me "hey mama I got something for ya"

 

[onaharley]

I found a soft shelled egg from my Buff this afternoon on the ground.

Really? How weird!!!

 

[onaharley]

And in your first post, I saw that he has a curly tail feather?

Yes, I have one drake and one hen..... I'm 6ft tall and was standing right by the water that they were at......which caused the drake feather to disappear.....sucks being so tall sometimes

 

[onaharley]

It's possible that her first stuck soft egg caused all the other to back up. Hopefully this is the last of them and giving the calcium will help lay shell down on the next ones.

Me too! Wowzers.... what a day!!!

 

[Ravynscroft]

I need to specify... she is not getting two eggs down the chute at once. One must have came at 7:30 this morning in the pool when I them out of the pen, then another came in her favorite spot....around 3pm. She came up to my sliding glass around 3pm.... I guess to tell me "hey mama I got something for ya"

Sorry, I should have specified... what I mean by 2 in the chute at once is that 2 eggs are being released to go down the oviduct at once, instead of just 1... it takes approx 26 hrs for the egg to grow and form to proper size for laying, and for the membrane to develop and the shell to overlay it all... if she is dropping a 2nd egg within same 24hr period, then she has 2 in the works at once and is just laying them at short intervals...

Also, the last egg you posted looked like it had a slight circular pattern on its side, that is caused by 2 eggs in the reproductive tract at the same time, touching as they grow and develop...

 

[chickens really]

Yes, as I have specified in my replies...Young layer