Why is she breaking her egg open?

[pekinsRus]

My Pekin, Trix, has recently started laying her morning egg near a water bucket & breaking it open. Why would she do this?

 

[Amiga]

Do you see her break it? Is the shell soft?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Maybe she stepped on it.

 

[EggLuver]

New layers can have very soft shells and the pekin can crush an egg with it's weight and a soft shell makes it even easier. I have had 2 soft shelled eggs and one was broken. If they do it on purpose then they would probably eat the egg, Mine did not.