Weird egg

[Jabebee13]

You're May 17, 2020. I haven't been on my account for a month yet.

 

[nuthatched]

It might be a lash egg. A sign of reproductive illness.

 

[Nene_putnam]

It might be a lash egg. A sign of reproductive illness.

I hope not any other signs? All my chickens are about 7 months old and either only started laying about a month ago or haven’t started yet?

 

[azygous]

There may be serious implications for the hen that laid this egg. Please bear with me while I ask some questions to get more clarification.

Does the "stuff" on the bottom of the egg come off easily? Or is the "stuff" part of the egg?

Is this egg wrapped in membrane only? Or is it a thin shell?

To me, the "stuff" looks like cooked egg. Does it look like that to you while you look at the real thing?

Next, can you cut into the egg? Is it solid as if hard boiled? Or is it raw and runny like a regular egg minus a shell?

Do you know which hen laid this egg? If so, has she ever had egg quality problems before?

 

[Nene_putnam]

There may be serious implications for the hen that laid this egg. Please bear with me while I ask some questions to get more clarification.

Does the "stuff" on the bottom of the egg come off easily? Or is the "stuff" part of the egg?

Is this egg wrapped in membrane only? Or is it a thin shell?

To me, the "stuff" looks like cooked egg. Does it look like that to you while you look at the real thing?

Next, can you cut into the egg? Is it solid as if hard boiled? Or is it raw and runny like a regular egg minus a shell?

Do you know which hen laid this egg? If so, has she ever had egg quality problems before?

I didn’t try to remove anything from the egg . It does look like cooked egg to me. I was only membrane no shell. I didn’t try to cut into it but did touch it and seems like it I were to open it it would be runny/raw not boiled. I already threw the egg away so I can’t confirm so of those answers and I don’t know what hen laid it because all of the hens were already roosting when I found it . I did have one chicken that I think is brooding. Hope this helps

 

[azygous]

It's unfortunate you threw the egg away before we could thoroughly analyze it. The "stuff" appears to be cooked egg. The implications for that is one of these young layers may be internally laying. This is not normal. With internal laying, eggs remain in the hen and are cooked by the hen's own body heat. If the egg had been solid all the way through, we may have been able to tell you if it was a lash egg, as @nuthatched suggested, which would be pus not really an egg at all, and a sign of serious infection.

Or an egg my have ruptured in the oviduct, remained for days, slowly being cooked by the hen's body heat. This is just as serious if this is what's going on.

In the first scenario, there isn't much you can do unless you're ready to spend a huge amount of money at an avian vet. The second scenario, the hen would need an antibiotic for infection caused by the yolk breaking inside and calcium therapy to try to correct the malfunction.

Since you do not know which hen laid the egg, watch for any hen that is acting lethargic, eyes droopy, tail down low and flat, maybe sleeping in the nest box during the day but not laying. That would probably be the one that laid the strange egg.

If there's ever a next time, save everything, including a dead chicken if it should come down to that. Refrigerate but do not freeze. We will try to help you and guide you as much as we can.

Hopefully, this was a fluke associated with a novice layer and won't happen again.

 

[Peppercorngal]

If this is the first "shell less egg" your hen laid it may not be the end of the world. I've had a hen lay a totally shell less egg and went on to be just fine. I actually don't know who laid it. Keep your eyes open for tell tale signs of illness, but I wouldn't freak out about it at this point.
Here's my shell less egg photos:

 

[aart]

I already threw the egg away so I can’t confirm so of those answers and I don’t know what hen laid it because all of the hens were already roosting when I found it

Next time
Could just be a start up glitch.

 

[Nene_putnam]

It's unfortunate you threw the egg away before we could thoroughly analyze it. The "stuff" appears to be cooked egg. The implications for that is one of these young layers may be internally laying. This is not normal. With internal laying, eggs remain in the hen and are cooked by the hen's own body heat. If the egg had been solid all the way through, we may have been able to tell you if it was a lash egg, as @nuthatched suggested, which would be pus not really an egg at all, and a sign of serious infection.

Or an egg my have ruptured in the oviduct, remained for days, slowly being cooked by the hen's body heat. This is just as serious if this is what's going on.

In the first scenario, there isn't much you can do unless you're ready to spend a huge amount of money at an avian vet. The second scenario, the hen would need an antibiotic for infection caused by the yolk breaking inside and calcium therapy to try to correct the malfunction.

Since you do not know which hen laid the egg, watch for any hen that is acting lethargic, eyes droopy, tail down low and flat, maybe sleeping in bed the nest box during the day but not laying. That would probably be the one that laid the strange egg.

If there's ever a next time, save everything, including a dead chicken if it should come down to that. Refrigerate but do not freeze. We will try to help you and guide you as much as we can.

Hopefully, this was a fluke associated with a novice layer and won't happen again.

Wow that is really scary to think about! My thought as to throwing it away was to keep the chickens from eating it and figured it was no good for us to eat so discard it?! I wish I wouldn’t have now. One of my chickens I assumed was being broody because she wants to stay in the nesting box all day but she does come out period

 

[ackie]

One of my pullets laid a shell-less egg but it was perfectly fine otherwise. Just a hiccup since she was new to laying. This is what it looked like. She also laid a couple eggs while roosting and they cracked on the porch below her. She grew into herself and laid normally after that and was my best layer.