[moomoos42]

Hello, i wonder if anyone can help, again?
My little Agie has laid soft shell and no shell eggs before but after the advise i received to my pervious postings on here she has been laying normal for a couple of weeks.
However tonight she was still out on the outside perch in darkness and when i went to shut them up at 8.20 there was an egg in the run.
when i shone the torch i thought it had broken as i could see white so i got the rake and got it out. But when i picked it up it was in one piece. shining the torch back into the run i could still see the white.
could she have laid a normal egg and just the white of a second?
Is this going to be a constant re-occurring problem or is there a cure?
Thank you.

[chicksx3]

if it happens for a while i recommend trying ground up oysters. try getting them at your regular feed store

[Casey76]

Unfortunately some hens are prone to egg laying problems, especially the hybrids.

If your other hens are not having problems, then you can almost entirely rule out a dietary problem.

If you want to supplement the one hen, I believe people have had good experiences with "Shell Max" as I believe you can treat one hen individually with this. (If you add extra calcium to the feed, the other hens would get an "overdose" of calcium, which can be harmful).

[SurreyLass]

One of my hybrid girls had a couple of days of softies a few weeks ago - she laid 2 each time - and one day, I think they might have eaten the contents of one of them, as I only found a trace of gloopy white, but a few days later, I uncovered the 'shell' membrane in the run - it had been raked through with their digging so I hadnt noticed it. She was laying 2 softies instead of the huge double yoker she had sometimes laid. Both days she did it, she did it evening / nighttime, not normal egg laying time.

[moomoos42]

Thank you for all the answers. Aggie is back to normal again so i think she's always going to have this problem! She is the smallest of my 3 hens , who i got together.