Soft shelled egg 2 days ago and still nothing!

[Barbs Girls]

So Priscilla (Sapphire Gem), 18ish weeks layed a soft shelled egg in Thurstand nothing since then. Has seen her rearranging the nest boxes but that’s about it. Is she ok?

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Does she seem ok in herself? Eating, drinking and looks ok?
If so I would suggest she is just getting her egg laying machines in full working order. Sometimes it can take a little while for them to get up & running correctly.

 

[Barbs Girls]

LOL- thank you! She seems to be doing everything else normally. I am afraid she is going to lay and they will eat it before I can get to it! They are the soft shelled one like crazy!

 

[Barbs Girls]

Sorry *ate the soft shelled one

 

[snow5164]

This heat is affecting lots of birds laying, just give her time to get back to work .

They are not machines

 

[Barbs Girls]

This heat is affecting lots of birds laying, just give her time to get back to work .

They are not machines

Oh I would never consider her a machine, just wanting to know if this is normal laying behavior.

 

[LittleMissCountry]

Mine layed a normal egg, then two days later laid two soft shelled eggs, then four days later another soft shell. After two weeks of laying, she seems to be settling into a pattern now with small regular eggs every morning. The others were random...some at night, some in evening.

So far I haven't had any issue with them eating the regular eggs, but they have eaten several soft shelled ones. I believe one of mine laid a soft shell last night, as I found just a membrane left when I cleaned their coop this morning (which would be a first egg for one of them, since my only other layer had her egg at 9 a.m.)

 

[Barbs Girls]

Mine layed a normal egg, then two days later laid two soft shelled eggs, then four days later another soft shell. After two weeks of laying, she seems to be settling into a pattern now with small regular eggs every morning. The others were random...some at night, some in evening.

So far I haven't had any issue with them eating the regular eggs, but they have eaten several soft shelled ones. I believe one of mine laid a soft shell last night, as I found just a membrane left when I cleaned their coop this morning (which would be a first egg for one of them, since my only other layer had her egg at 9 a.m.)

Thank you very much! That’s is reassuring!

 

[aart]

It can take up to a month or so before they get it all figured out....
.... meanwhile, eggs everywhere, some of them can be rather funky looking, soft or thin shelled, huge double yolked eggs.