Strange Eggs.

The hen of mine that lays soft shelled or weird shaped has the same to eat as all the others.  Good quality layers pellets, some freeranging and a tiny amount on mixed corn.  Crushed oyster shell and grit is always available for them.  I really think that it is her breeding that the problem lies, she is a Bovan Goldline and was bred to lay the optimum number of eggs.  If she was on commercial premises she would have had the chop by now.     

That's why eggs are not square 

wind egg laid today by one of my girls.

I had 2 pointy eggs yesterday.

Normally our girls lay lil' chubby eggs, pointed at one end (normal, effectively) but these are long and pointy??

And the darker coloured one is a biggie
 

http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/common-egg-quality-problems

This website has been brill for us (we have ex batts too)
Gives a full list of all problems/ causes.

Hope this helps!!!

X

here is a photo of a wind egg (aka fart egg, witches egg, practise egg) alongside a normal egg laid by the same hen, as you can see it has a greater concentration of colour pigmentation.

Hello readers,
This evening, about 8pm I went to usher my three chickens from the garden (free ranging) and put them into the cage before tucking them up in bed in the coop.
So what! But one hen was reluctant to come and kept slowly walking away from me.
I eventually caught her and put her in the cage, soon after, she laid an egg with a very thin shell like jelly.
The other two hens went to it so I removed it.
Now the question is why lay another egg, as she laid an egg this morning about 8am?
So why another one in 12-13 hours? Will she lay again as usual tomorrow morning?
I do go on a bit.
Tom Parrot.

I'm glad to hear she is OK Tom 

I don't know what caused the odd jelly shelled egg, but it seems it was a blip and all is well.  They do like to keep us guessing don't they