small watery eggs?

[goldchickie]

Hey I'm hoping you guys have some good ideas about this. One of my chickens has started laying eggs that are about 1/2 to 3/4 size of the regular size. Its yolk is the same size as before when the egg was regular size. So, often the yolk takes up almost all of the inside of the egg. The albumen is watery and when hard boiled it doesn't firm up it just gets clumpy. She lays them like this everyday, her frequency of laying has not dropped off. I have 12 girls so I'm not really sure which one it is anyhow. None of the other girls are having problems. Any ideas?

 

[Wynette]

Check this link - it may be helpful:

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/ourbooks/1/egg-quality-handbook/

 

[goldchickie]

Thanks for the link. But none of the info under watery whites seemed to correspond with what is going on for me. Unless there is one bird that is sick with something, but wouldn't it be contagious? This has been going on for almost a month now and no other birds seem to be suffering from the same problem. There are no shell problems, it is just a small egg.