Soft eggs ! And eggs with no shell ! :(

[Gemschooks]

Hi everyone I have three chickens , my first snowdrop started laying a week ago and she's been doing great ! Got 6 eggs from her all lovely ! Her pal a rhode rock black ? Started laying two days later but her eggs have been soft, her first had no shell . She's Laid 4 in total . The specaldy I don't think has started laying yet ! But today I went down and had a soft egg and a egg with no shell - could the one hen have laid both of these or the specaldy may be starting ? My snowdrop will lay later so I know it's not her !

My question is that I am feeding them layers pellets and calcium supplement , is it just because she's a new layer ? X

 

[beausonge]

Last year, my New Hampshire Red had shell-less eggs for nearly a month after she started laying. She was shipped from the nursery as a day old chick and 11 of 25 died out of her box. They have been normal since then but she has always been a poor producer. She was 1 of 5 and all the others laid nice eggs from the start. This year I raised up six more pullets. They have been laying for about a month. I got about 3 shell-less eggs out if this bunch and then they all had normal shells. It is not that uncommon for pullets to have these kinds of eggs.

 

[petjem]

Couldn't that be lack of calcium? If that's the case, it can be easily treated with some calcium supplement in their drinking water. You could ask your vet about it.

 

[Macro]

I'm not an expert on this matter, but I did do a quick search and there's a lot of good advice in this thread!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/53608/laying-egg-with-no-shell