Shell-less egg - why?

[Chickengirl209]

Yesterday my hen laid a really strange egg. I will try to describe it. I'll attatch the picture later.
It had no shell, and was being held together by membrane. The first part of it was the size of a normal egg. But then, at the bottom of the egg, the membrane continued, becoming smaller, and wrapped around something like a mini egg that contained just a yolk!
The hen is about 22 wks old and started laying arround a week and a half ago.

Does anyone know about this?

 

[Blue Raptor]

Yesterday my hen laid a really strange egg. I will try to describe it. I'll attatch the picture later.
It had no shell, and was being held together by membrane. The first part of it was the size of a normal egg. But then, at the bottom of the egg, the membrane continued, becoming smaller, and wrapped around something like a mini egg that contained just a yolk!
The hen is about 22 wks old and started laying arround a week and a half ago.

Does anyone know about this?

I think it’s called a jelly egg. It’s when the egg accidentally skips the shell process. It’s not a bad thing, but Giving them some chicken oyster shell can help.

 

[aart]

I'll attatch the picture later.

So....where's the pics??

Was the smaller egg shelled?

 

[Chickengirl209]

 

[Chickengirl209]

Sorry I wasn’t able to get it out there very quickly…

 

[Sono]

Might need to add calcium / oyster shells to the feed. I occasionally save the shells when I cook and put in a blender til powdered then mix in the feed

 

[aart]

Shelled egg probably backed up in system and got more membrane while another egg was in there. Hopefully it's a one off startup glitch.

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