Shell-less egg?

[Chicken_Girl75495]

Spooky.... ours happened yesterday too.

Thanks, everybody, for your input!

 

[3chicks2dogs]

Same sort of thing happened to me this morning...I have 3 RIReds. I usually get 3 eggs every morning. But this morning 2 brown eggs, one white and rough egg and one membrane. Totally baffled, except that the night before last we had horrible weather(high winds, tornados, 1 1/2 inches of rain). Perhaps it put someone in a funk. I mix oyster shell in their food, but will try laying it out today just to make sure that isn't it.

 

[leenie]

It's my understanding that if hens, especially young ones, are unexpectedly awakened during the night it messes up their egg making process and the egg slips out before it's fully "baked". That's why those special eggs are hardly ever found in the nesting box. High winds could have had the girls awake during the night. Just a thought. I realize there are several reasons for shelless eggs but this it one of them.

 

[lynnc1120]

My RIR Rosie is well into her first molt, she is 1 1/2 years old. She hasn't laid in egg in some time and is not interested in the calcium. I have upped her protein intake. This morning she laid and egg without a shell. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[Chicken_Girl75495]

Hi--

I've had a couple shell-less eggs over the past six years and... probably 50 chickens? Three maybe. The last one, I went into the coop and the girls were already settled down and one was startled. The egg came out. I put it in the fridge, had it for breakfast the next morning. Wonderful, just like the others.

It isn't just about calcium, it's also about being startled or sometimes when they are young. The egg's shell is the last step and sometimes it is delivered... prematurely. They usually don't survive a chicken stepping on it, or eating it.... I just lucked out the last time.

If you are concerned about calcium and your girl isn't interested in the supplements, you can crush and wash egg shells and they will sometimes eat that. Or you can feed something that has calcium in it. My girls really like yogurt (they shouldn't but they do). Dairy has calcium in it.... Or fish with bones... like sardines. But seriously, if, when she lays, she has almost all egss with good shells, calcium is not her issue....

Hope this helps!

 

[aart]

My RIR Rosie is well into her first molt, she is 1 1/2 years old. She hasn't laid in egg in some time and is not interested in the calcium. I have upped her protein intake. This morning she laid and egg without a shell. Has this happened to anyone else?

Just like when they first start laying as pullets, when they resume laying after a molt there can be some funky eggs until she gets things tuned back up.

 

[chickmomma03]

I've had a couple prematurely lay. All were after (what was to them) a stressful situation (nothing really major that could have hurt them or anything like that). 2 were in the nesting bin (and they were both double no shell so it's possible that because of just that is why), the other was plopped out in the middle of the run. I brought them in, took a couple pics, cooked them, and gave them to the chickens for treats. I'm sure it would have been fine to eat them, but I have plenty of eggs otherwise so they enjoyed the treat.

 

[lynnc1120]

The thing is Juggler, she is in th emiddle of her molt, (feathers now from her back and chest) and hasn't laid an egg in weeks. Hoping she is ok. She still gets very excited to eat the bugs when I am gardening, so she is acting ok. I am fairly new to this chicken keeping and probably getting myself worried over nothing. Hoping she is ok

 

[chickmomma03]

Quote: From everything I've read when molting laying stops.