No shell on a Chickens egg!!!?

I have seen it before!!!!

My parents used to keep chickens, and every now and again this would happen.

They look and feel really weird don't they?!

It's a rare but natural occurrence... the shell hasn't been eaten.

We never used to eat the eggs.... just didn't fancy it!

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This is a common occurrence which happens every now and then.It does not mean that your birds are deficient in anything.A hen for whatever the reason will now and again produce an egg with no shell.The most common reason for this is the amount of eggs the hen may have stacked up waiting to made.Sounds odd but when the rate of release is greater then the hens ability to fully produce them you some times have her lay the eggs before she can coat it with a shell.So no they didn't egg the shell off the egg.

Feeding your hens corn is fine though you should really be feeding them layer rations.You can use both chopped corn and layer rations in a 50/50 mix.For the overall health of your birds they need more then just corn on a daily bases.

Allow me to point something out.Grit has nothing to do with the shell of an egg.grit is small gravels used in the digestive system.Calcium is what a chicken uses to produce the shell on an egg.Calcium is not found in grit.The best source of calcium you can obtain for a bird is oyster shell.Giving your hens some oyster shell now and then is a good thing to do just be sure and offer it in a separate bowl that they can have free access to.As long as your birds have access to the ground there is no need to offer them any type of grit.If they are pen raised birds then depending on what you are feeding them wil determine if grit is needed.

Deficiency Symptom: No Shell equals not enough Vitamin D or calcium in the diet. As pointed out, grit is not a calcium source. It is tiny stones which have been broken up to teeney weeney pieces. The chickens need grit for their gizzard in order to grind their food properly. Oyster shells are a great source of calcium. You can also get crushed limestone. But, I find my chickens used to like the crushed shells a lot better. If your chickens are free range, they should be getting plenty of vitamins. If they are ranging outdoors, you can just get them scratch to supplement their foraging. However, if they are kept indoors or in a run, they need a balanced diet, which means some sort of laying ration. Corn alone is not a good idea. You are fortunate they didn't eat the yolks. Once they do, boy, it's hard to stop them from doing it. Make sure you grab the eggs/yolks as soon as possible. By the way, all healthy eggs are laid with the yolk covered by a shell. The yolk is contained within it, and the shell does not suddenly "form" after it has been laid. That's just plain funny! By the way, if a change in diet doesn't do it - suspect some sort of viral/bacterial disease. Oh, one last point, the older the gals, the more likely their peak production is ending, hence, more egg production problems. Good luck.

Lol no the mother has not eaten the shell. Due to stress or a lack of grit or calcium in their diet. A good source is crushed and cooked egg shells. Crush them well and put them in the oven until they are lightly browned. 1/2 a cup to there food a day for awhile should do. If you have moved them or they have been under stress recently this could also be the problem

The reason for cookin them is so as to not train your chicken to eat there own eggs. If they start doing that you will have to cull them.

If both birds laid an egg without shell, its probably calcium deficiency. If one did it its just a glitch.

The 'grit' you need is oyster grit; not just any old grit. Oyster shells are made from calcium. The birds use the grit in their gizzards to grind up their food and at the same time the calcium gets ground up and digested.

I dont think they ate the shell and left the egg - thats often the bit they're after when they start eating them!

Every once in a while we get an egg with a membrane, but without a shell. It feels like a water balloon. This is another accident of the hen's reproductive system and is not necessarily an indication of any problem. The membrane was placed on the yold and white, but it somehow slipped past the "shell mechanism" and the shell wasn't deposited.

P.S. This generally happens when the chicken is laying for the first time... !

They need grit to make the calcium. If you buy a recognized hen food it has all the nutrients the chicken needs, but if you are feeding just corn you will have to buy some grit. They sell it at feed stores.

All birda need grit in their diet. Hens too need it. Grit helps them to digest their food and also to form the shells on their eggs.

You can eat the "rubber eggs" as they are known, they are perfectly fine to eat or to bake with.

The grit needs to be in a seperate container so they can go to it when they choose.

DO NOT MIX IT IN WITH THEIR FOOD.

Perhaps this would also be a good time to worm your hens and turn the ground over too.

There must've been a problem during the mating process. Not a big deal actually. But do not eat/sell these eggs because they are not normal eggs. Think of eggs as a the child of the chickens. Sometimes, when a person is born, he/she is different from others. This also applies to chickens and other animals. Some animals are have one leg that are shorter than its other legs something like that. And of course, they did not eat the shell.

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No they did not eat the shell.

This usually happens when they don't have enough shell or grit in their diet.

You can go to the feed store and tell them the situtation and ask them what they have for feed.

Or you could put some very small gravel in their pen for the to pick through.

They havent ate them they dont do that... my boyfriend has loads and he hasnt had any.. i dont think! lol they could be duds or maybe you ent feeding them enough calcium. Maybe try different ranges of food or buy a chicken book to help you abit more you could aways ring a vet they happy to halp even with all my qustions if i cant get the answer from you guys