soft and hard egg

Hello! So, I have this Swedish Blue duck that I took in about two weeks ago. She’s around 10 months old, so this is her first time laying. Every single egg she’s laid so far has been small and soft shelled, right up until today where I found a huge, hard, double yolker. I’m confident it’s her...

I’ve got to find out who’s laying the strange, ugly egg, Agatha or Effie. They are both Black Copper Marans, both from a breeder close to me, and both lay a very different looking egg from my first BCM, Molly Maran. She lays a gorgeous, chocolate egg (between a 6 and 7 on the BCM egg color...

In the past week I have had two soft shell eggs from two different hens, one is an Ameraucana just under a year (started laying around 9 months) and a silkie or silkie mix (not sure who of these two laid it) the silkie is a little over a year and the silkie mix is just under a year. I have never...

I have 7 chickens and for two days it was runny liquid in their bedding. Just in 2 spots so maybe two chickens. Yesterday I gave them egg shells. This morning I found a half hard and half soft egg that had not broken yet and gone into the bedding. Has anyone had this happen? I read about Vent...