multiple eggs

My young hen is laying multiple eggs a day on most days. The shells are soft  or missing- probably because there is not enough calcium for the number of egg shells. This has been going on for 3 weeks. We have had the occasional single egg with a good shell.
Will she settle down to a normal egg laying pattern or has anyone heard of a hormone treatment to slow down "ovulation" - just a thought?
Thanks

She must have heard me worrying about multiple eggs so yesterday she put them all together in one shell and layed the monster on the left. The egg on the right is the normal sized egg from the other hen and a pound for reference
I am still worried she may harm herself with laying too many or too large eggs

Wooowzers 

Hen's only have a set amount of eggs in them like us ladies So although passing eggies like that can't be very nice for her (bet her eye's watered ) I think that what will happen is she will just stop laying at a younger age than the others.


Sarah

Quack

Going on to corn may effect the other hen
There are only 3 things that will stop a hen laying they are moulting, going broody and winter (and even them some don't stop )

I have never seen anything like what your describing continue for such a long time normally a week of weird eggs then they get into the swing of things.

Have you tried giving her some limestone powder mixed in her food to harden up the shells? Have they got access to oyster shell?

Sarah

Chicken lady.
Thanks for your advice. I am on holiday for a week now and a friend is going to chicken sit so I am not going to ask her to do anything complicated but when I get back I will segregate soft multi-layer and feed her corn, limestone, grit etc and see if that makes a difference. Perhaps when she starts getting it right reliably her body will continue when she is back on layer pellets.

Reading other topics, soft shell and other egg problems seems to be a common problem. This site is really supportive for us ineggsperienced newbies