Weird eggs

[BlindLemonChicken]

One of my mom's hens is consistently laying these eggs. They have free-choice oyster shell, layer feed mixed with scratch, boom worms (every day). Her chickens live to be over 8 years old regularly so don't tell her not to mix the scratch with the layer feed lol. She says the shell is thin and often there is a dime-sized white circular thing attached to the yolk which she doesn't have a picture of. Any ideas welcome.

 

[azygous]

Older layers often produce such eggs. Their shell glands are aging and the calcium isn't distributed evenly. Often these eggs are thin shelled, and they have calcium deposits on them. You may even see the skinny end with a hole where the calcium seemed to run plumb out.

The eggs in themselves are still good to eat, but they represent a risk that eventually one of these fragile eggs could break inside the hen before she can get it out. Unfortunately, having had my share of aging layers, they do not respond efficiently to extra calcium. You just need to hope that they retire from laying before that happens. It's been my experience that often the appearance of such eggs signals the final chapter in that hen's laying career.

If this happens to be from a young layer, unlikely as it is, I might try calcium therapy to see if it improves the eggs.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Older layers often produce such eggs. Their shell glands are aging and the calcium isn't distributed evenly. Often these eggs are thin shelled, and they have calcium deposits on them. You may even see the skinny end with a hole where the calcium seemed to run plumb out.

The eggs in themselves are still good to eat, but they represent a risk that eventually one of these fragile eggs could break inside the hen before she can get it out. Unfortunately, having had my share of aging layers, they do not respond efficiently to extra calcium. You just need to hope that they retire from laying before that happens. It's been my experience that often the appearance of such eggs signals the final chapter in that hen's laying career.

If this happens to be from a young layer, unlikely as it is, I might try calcium therapy to see if it improves the eggs.

That makes sense. She has a lot of old chickens and she doesn't know which chicken is laying this. I wonder if switching to all-flock would be better since she has so many various breeds and ages...

 

[Kanekoded]

I have found that feeding older laying hens pulverized egg shells mixed into a little coconut oil 3-4 times a week to be helpful with egg quality.