soft egg laid anywhere

We have four out of seven hens laying now. Yesterday was the 1st egg for number 4. She laid the egg ontop of the nest box under the perches. It was a small but good egg. This morning under the other perches was what looked like a small soft egg all squished & a whole soft egg beside it. Fortunately no one had pecked them.
Should I just wait & see how things go before I try to work out which hen it is? I'm not too worried about where she lays as it is in shavings but it'd be less likely to be pecked & start a trend if she layed in the box with the other girls. There are five nests so plenty of room! I'm also presuming soft egg this early can happen? The other eggs are really hard shells.

Agree with 8doubles. Also if your hens are just coming into lay, and it sounds as though they may be, it is possible to get a few 'odd' eggs as they can make a few mistakes to start with. 

One of mine has started laying soft shells and no shell eggs. This afternoon she went very quiet, looked very sad then did a few watery poos,  then laid a no shell egg on the patio. Her back was to me so I saw the whole thing happen. It looked like something was dangling from her vent so I grabbed her and took a look. It was a prolapse but went back in. My birds are about 18 months now so I am concerned that I need to keep a close watch on Sandy (soft shell) and see if I can get some extra calcium into her.

I shut the other two greed guts out the conservatory today whilst I fed her some probiotic yoghurt. When the other two saw what was happening they were banging on the window to get in. Tomorrow I will get some poultry spice and give her a lot of tlc. She does not like being handled too much but she will have to put up with it till I get her back to normal.   

Today she laid an egg with a rough bobbly shell - but at least it's a shell. I'm glad she managed it, hopefully she'll be ok now. We also had egg number 5 today from the youngest hen, a lovely small smooth egg.

Well I thought so, Sassy, but again this morning she'd laid another one with a soft shell under the perches. How long do I give her before I think about getting more calcium into her? Then what form do you suggest for her?

Hmmm .... today she laid another pale rough shelled egg. She laid it on the floor near the pop hole. Fortunately none of the girls are interested in pecking eggs, so I was able to pick it up. I cracked open the last rough one & it seemed to me that the white contained alot of what seems to be water - don't know if that indicates what could be wrong?
I gave them ground up baked egg shells today ontop of their pellets, so I know today they've had plenty of calcium. Let's see what tomorrow brings.

Today I'd just let them out & I walked back to the run to throw ovr some nettles & 1 hen was pecking an egg on the floor of the run. Another hen was trying to get in on it too, so I have no idea who laid it. When I got it off them, it was not too bad, thin but better then before. I filled it with mustard & tabasco (only a drop) put it back in & they all decided egg pecking was not for them!!!
So I'll get up early tomorrow & have my morning tea watching them. When I know who the culprit is, I'll give her some yoghurt & limestone flour each day as I think she will be ok in the end.
7 eggs today including that 1 from 7 girls. Hooray!

Mustard and tabasco ? They will love that !

Are you going to give them some nan bread and cold lager ? 

Been there !