What's wrong with this egg?

[echo81577]

I found it on the sand and it was wet. It should be a light brown color from one of my comments. Ideas?

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Before you zoom in that sucker looks like a poached egg. I think it's just a lack of pigment...maybe it didn't stay long enough in the hen to get the proper amount.

 

[GC-Raptor]

I found it on the sand and it was wet. It should be a light brown color from one of my comments. Ideas?

When I first got chickens, one of my Golden Comets laid eggs like that when she started to lay.
I was overdoing the treats, Scratch Grains in my case.
When I cut back on Scratch Grains the occurrence became much less frequent.
High egg production hybrids (Sex-links) are more susceptible to egg problems and do best on a nutritionally balanced poultry feed, with little to no treats, from my experience.

Stress can come from an incomplete diet, changes in lighting and predators trying to get into coop at night.
If you use lighting to increase production, turn lights on and off the same time daily. GC

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

The hen that laid it could have been eggbound.

 

[aart]

Looks more like excess calcium than lack of pigment.
Is the white part rough, will it scrape off?
Probably just a fluke.

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Looks more like excess calcium than lack of pigment.
Is the white part rough, will it scrape off?
Probably just a fluke.

It looked smooth to me, which is why I said that. Are you talking about the clumps on there? I think that's sand. If not point me at what you're seeing, so I can see (and learn to see) it too.