Wrinkled egg in new hen

[NewcoopNewpoop]

No other symptoms. She has a little poo around her butt fluff but nothing extrodinary. Poo seems normal. Gold laced wyandotte. A bit skiddish. She has laid three so far this week each with a wrinkle on top, calcium spots, and a slight curve at the tip. We were picking her up daily but she really dislikes it for now, lots of flappy protest if you dont hold her just right.
Is this just how she lays or is it always a sign of a larger problem? (i read the egg thread and it didnt seem definitive). Anyone else have experience with this?

 

[DobieLover]

She's a newly laying pullet. Give her reproductive system a little more time to fully mature and hopefully she will work the kinks out.
They are just a bit malformed at the pointed end, not wrinkled. Picking her up when she does not like it (as most don't) will stress her and add to the problem.

For reference, these are a wrinkled eggs:

 

[NewcoopNewpoop]

She's a newly laying pullet. Give her reproductive system a little more time to fully mature and hopefully she will work the kinks out.
They are just a bit malformed at the pointed end, not wrinkled. Picking her up when she does not like it (as most don't) will stress her and add to the problem.

For reference, these are a wrinkled eggs:
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She is supposedly 2 years old. I don't think she is a new layer. My other two never had wrinkles or calcium spots and we had them since they were 3 mo. But I agree hers arent as wrinkled as they could be. They are just a little off, and I am not sure if theres anything to it.

 

[Ridgerunner]

The process of making an egg is pretty complicated. The majority of hens gets it right but occasionally one has glitches. If she is that old and she is fairly consistent in what happens then this is the egg she will probably always lay. There is probably something about her shell gland that isn't perfect. That's fairly common. You can often tell which hen laid which egg because of something like this. The shell gland is the body part that adds the shell around the egg. This is where the egg spends most of its time while being created.

If you are going to hatch eggs I would not hatch hers just in case this was hereditary. A reasonable precaution. But there is nothing wrong with the egg that impacts its safety. You can eat it like you would any other.

The commercial egg operations inspect their eggs and remove any with flaws so you are not used to seeing things like this. Those eggs are not discarded. They are sold to places that open the eggs before they are used like bakeries or pet food manufacturers.

You are one step closer to understanding where your food comes from before it gets to the store.

 

[NewcoopNewpoop]

So it likely isnt due to a contagious infection or otherwise?

 

[Ridgerunner]

No, highly unlikely. That looks very normal.

 

[NewcoopNewpoop]

Today marks the second day we have found her egg busted and being eaten in the nesting box. There were very few shell pieces left with her charachteristic calcium specks and a tiny wrinkle, and unfortunately my hens were eating the yolk that was puddled in the nest.
There was yolk on the other egg that was in the nest box with it and yolk on the belly of the hen that laid that one. So i am guessing this new hen lays eggs with extremely weak shells that break when laid on??
Do i need to start feeding the entire flock a calcium supplement just because her shells are thin?

Im afraid this is going to start egg pecking behaviors...

 

[BigBlueHen53]

No need to treat all the hens for a problem in one. Just give a calcium citrate +D3 to that one hen.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Do you have oyster shell available in a separate vessel for all the hens?

 

[NewcoopNewpoop]

Do you have oyster shell available in a separate vessel for all the hens?

No, ive been feeding an organic layer feed thats fortified with oystershell, D, and manganese and an organic layer mash that has 4.25% calcium.
I dont have trouble with my original hens eggs.

Do you have oyster shell available in a separate vessel for all the hens?