Weird egg, just a large calcium deposit?

[Allthefloofs]

So this happened this morning. It is from out BLRW, she is just a little over a year old, has always been very healthy and robust.

 

[azygous]

I looks like the chalaza may have protruded beyond the membrane and was covered in shell material as it was laid down over the egg in the shell gland. Open the egg, and you may see this ropey thing under the weird shell formation.

 

[Allthefloofs]

I looks like the chalaza may have protruded beyond the membrane and was covered in shell material as it was laid down over the egg in the shell gland. Open the egg, and you may see this ropey thing under the weird shell formation.

Thank you, I have never seen anything like this, I was stumped! I will crack it open later and post pics again.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Well that's weird looking... I'm curious to know if @azygous is correct. I'll occasionally get odd eggs from new layers, or when my older girls are beginning to molt. Hopefully this is just a little glitch.

 

[MadamPoofyBrow]

I’m not sure what it is, but following to see what happens when you open it!

 

[Allthefloofs]

I'll open it today and post pics. She's been a very consistent layer (in terms of quality) after her first month, so I was scratching my head this morning, lol!

 

[Allthefloofs]

Well that's weird looking... I'm curious to know if @azygous is correct. I'll occasionally get odd eggs from new layers, or when my older girls are beginning to molt. Hopefully this is just a little glitch.

She has been losing a few feathers here and there, but she isn't in full molt. Maybe she is heading that way and is having some weird eggs pre-molt. She had some strange ones as her egg factory started up, in fact she had the most weird eggs out of all of our girls in the beginning, maybe it's just her way

 

[azygous]

Eggs do decline in quality going into molt, so I wouldn't be too concerned this anomaly means anything.

 

[Allthefloofs]

Eggs do decline in quality going into molt, so I wouldn't be too concerned this anomaly means anything.

Okay, that is good to know, the rest of our girls just sort of stop laying, this is our first possible "weird molt egg" I guess, thanks for including that info, I won't feel so freaked out if it happens again

 

[Allthefloofs]

Okay, I have pictures. There was a “blob” of gelatinous stuff outside of the membrane and the shell was created over that, but in general the egg was weird. The yolk was flatter than it normally is for a fresh egg, and there were lots of blood flecks in the albumin.