Strange Egg and Laying Location from Easter Egger

[Summerfield]

Our 26 week old Easter Egger, Frida, started laying a few weeks ago. She’s laid a few normal, good looking eggs with strong shells, and did so in the nesting box.

That said, twice now I’ve gone out to let our ladies out of the coop (they free run our backyard)… and I’ve been met with both a shell-less egg under the roost where she sleeps AND a second egg that has a funny wrinkle shell. The whole egg has a strong shell - not the soft shells I’ve read about, but has this extra wrinkly layer (photo attached).

Should I just attribute this to early laying behavior or is it problematic?

(we feed all 4 of our ladies a layer pellet that has calcium in it, all the other lady’s’ eggs are good looking with strong shells.)

 

[nuthatched]

Oooo, that's gnarly.
Maybe this can help,https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/ I've never seen anything like that. I'd blow it out and keep it,personally.

 

[AngeJD]

Wow - I've never seen anything like that before!!! Please update if you find out what it is - I've looked through all the common egg problem pages, and have never seen that!

 

[aart]

Egg backed up after being shelled and got another application of membrane.

Should I just attribute this to early laying behavior or is it problematic?

Hope it's a new layer glitch.
If it continues, then yes it would be a concern.

 

[Summerfield]

Oooo, that's gnarly.
Maybe this can help,https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/ I've never seen anything like that. I'd blow it out and keep it,personally.

Thanks for the resource!

 

[Summerfield]

Egg backed up after being shelled and got another application of membrane.


Hope it's a new layer glitch.
If it continues, then yes it would be a concern.

This makes sense! Hopefully it doesn’t happen again.

 

[Summerfield]

Wow - I've never seen anything like that before!!! Please update if you find out what it is - I've looked through all the common egg problem pages, and have never seen that!

Will do!