What would cause this? Weird looking egg

[MaiBee]

So I posted previously about my chicken/dog disaster earlier this week. One odd thing in all of it that seems pretty minor but that is just a mystery to me...shortly after getting home from the vet my surviving Golden Comet laid an egg. She has always been a reliable layer, laying good sized evenly brown eggs. The egg she laid when we got home was stark white...the color of the grocery store eggs...with a very thin shell. No idea what would cause that, and she hasn't laid anything else since (no surprise given everything). Any idea what would turn the egg white like that? I'm thinking either the stress or the medications she was given but it was just very strange. I'll try to post a before and after pic...

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

So I posted previously about my chicken/dog disaster earlier this week. One odd thing in all of it that seems pretty minor but that is just a mystery to me...shortly after getting home from the vet my surviving Golden Comet laid an egg. She has always been a reliable layer, laying good sized evenly brown eggs. The egg she laid when we got home was stark white...the color of the grocery store eggs...with a very thin shell. No idea what would cause that, and she hasn't laid anything else since (no surprise given everything). Any idea what would turn the egg white like that? I'm thinking either the stress or the medications she was given but it was just very strange. I'll try to post a before and after pic...View attachment 1989009

It could be because she is stressed!are chickens will lay soft shell eggs if we are trying to catch them.

 

[chrissynemetz]

I don't know for sure, but I would think it was likely caused by stress.

 

[pennyJo1960]

What do you feed the birds and do you offer oyster shell free choice

 

[Ted_Harrell]

The color of her eggs is probably applied at the last stage just before laying and the stress from it probably caused her to skip this stage, when she starts back laying you should see normal eggs...

 

[Eggcessive]

It probably was stress, although I had my best daily layer be attacked by a neighbor’s dog when she escaped the chicken yard. She immediately stopped laying, went into a stress molt, and when she eventually started laying eggs again 4 months later, her eggs were always shell-less or so thin shelled that they broke immediately. She died prematurely at 2 1/2 from a reproductive issue related to her injury.

 

[MaiBee]

What do you feed the birds and do you offer oyster shell free choice

They get layer feed. I have oyster shells that I had given them when some were just starting to lay but others were still on grower feed. I can put a little bit of it in with her...although I don't expect her to start laying again for a bit. Can't imagine it will hurt anything though and it may help.

 

[MaiBee]

The color of her eggs is probably applied at the last stage just before laying and the stress from it probably caused her to skip this stage, when she starts back laying you should see normal eggs...

Ah interesting. I think I need to read up on the egg production cycle!

 

[MaiBee]

It probably was stress, although I had my best daily layer be attacked by a neighbor’s dog when she escaped the chicken yard. She immediately stopped laying, went into a stress molt, and when she eventually started laying eggs again 4 months later, her eggs were always shell-less or so thin shelled that they broke immediately. She died prematurely at 2 1/2 from a reproductive issue related to her injury.

Oh man that's tough. Well, I'll prepare myself that we might have some long term complications from this. Thank you for sharing.

 

[JTurrisi]

So I posted previously about my chicken/dog disaster earlier this week. One odd thing in all of it that seems pretty minor but that is just a mystery to me...shortly after getting home from the vet my surviving Golden Comet laid an egg. She has always been a reliable layer, laying good sized evenly brown eggs. The egg she laid when we got home was stark white...the color of the grocery store eggs...with a very thin shell. No idea what would cause that, and she hasn't laid anything else since (no surprise given everything). Any idea what would turn the egg white like that? I'm thinking either the stress or the medications she was given but it was just very strange. I'll try to post a before and after pic...View attachment 1989009

I've had this problem with one of my Wyandotte chickens, at first I thought she wasn't getting enough calcium, I've added more Oyster Calcium to heir feed and it helped some, but seems to happen whenever she is stressed. My two Wyandottes, Olive and Maud, seem to get stressed when a stranger gets too near their coop and we were having landscape work being done at the time.