Sapphire Gem egg spots and deformity.

[Mamapio]

My sapphire gem pullet is just shy of 7 months old and has been laying for about a month. I have two questions:

1) Her eggs have been spotted the entire time. I was reading on this website that spots are a sign of a health problem. Do any other sapphire gem owners have spotted eggs? Or are yours just plain brown?

2) She laid a deformed egg today that led me to look into the egg deformity information on the site. This egg has a raised bumpy squiggle on the wider bottom end of the egg, the top is extra narrow and has grooves in it, and all the spots are on the top. Any clue what that indicates?

Normal egg on left, deformed egg on right:

Deformed egg top:

Deformed egg bottom:

 

[CluckerFamily]

She is still a pullet so eggs will be deformed until her body figures itself all out.
I'm unsure if the spots on the eggs means health problems.

 

[aart]

Both eggs from same bird?
Hopefully the creased and bumpy shell is just a one off glitch.

Speckles are not a health issue, and they can change daily.

'Speckled' eggs can happen for several different reasons...very few, if any, of which are a 'problem'.
Can be caused by:
Excess or uneven pigment coating.
Excess or uneven cuticle(bloom).
Excess calcium deposits.
Porous eggs can appear speckled.
Some birds lay them consistently, some only once in awhile.
The pigment or bloom can change appearance when wet, then change back when dry again.

As long as bird is getting a good diet and is healthy in every other way, it is no cause for concern.

 

[CHlCKEN]

The body of new layers are known to come up with some very creative faults within their first eggs. A cycle is hard to get going as well, she may take breaks between eggs, and have some very interesting ones. I’ll just give you an insight on the types of eggs you could find, and what causes them
Soft Shelled Egg
This is caused by lack of calcium in their diet. Only a small amount of calcium is able to coat the membrane resulting in an easily breakable egg. This can be fixed by giving a feed that is higher in calcium, and offering oyster shell. (Thanks to articles below and @sumi)
Fairy Egg or Misshapen
These are nothing to worry about it happens when an object enters the oviduct and is mistaken as a yolk and is is enclosed in egg white membrane and a shell. They are mostly fun to look at, and do not have a yolk. There will be times you find a micro egg with a yolk, I’ve never had a true fairy egg, just yolked micro eggs. These are even more fun because you can make tiny breakfast! It’s more sign of worry in older hens, but in pullets, it’s a mini sized fried egg! (Thanks to articles below and @sumi)
Double yolk
This is normal and fun, however these eggs can be hard for the hen to expel and can become egg bound. Most occasions they are able to expel it on their own, leaving you a nice Double yolked gift! It happens when multiple mature yolks are released together. You can have more than just two. I once found a TRIPLE yolked DUCK egg! Imagine the size will you! (It’s not recommended you incubate these because the mortality rate is extremely high) (thanks to articles below and (these can happen with adult birds to, but is more likely to be a sign of health issue when identified in them) (thanks to the articles below and @sumi)
Blood on shell
This isn’t anything to be worried about in new layers. It can be a sign of vent pecking but is likely from ruptured blood vessels in the vagina from excess straining. It can be very common in pullets but is more likely to be seen on an egg that was difficult to expel. (Thanks to @sumi on how this is caused ❤)
Wrinkled Egg
these eggs can have few wrinkles to many. What you’re looking at would just be from a mild disturbance in the eggs calcification process. (Thanks to @sumi for info on wrinkled eggs, RIP ❤)

When I was learning about all this last year/early this year, I got a lot of information from some helpful articles. I did not copy these directly, I haven’t even looked at them since, (except For Sumi’s article, I got my information directly From it to explain Bloody eggs and Wrinkled eggs which I don’t know enough about. I used her article to write the explanations in those two, but they were re-worded) but My information is based on what I learned from them last year. @aart pointed out I should probably mention them, and I will do that, if anyone needs help understanding any of these egg issues, you can go to one of them.
https://cluckin.net/abnormal-chicken-eggs-35-egg-problems-explained.html (I saved this one this summer when her egg issue was popping up again)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/
https://thefrugalchicken.com/abnormal-chicken-eggs/
https://www.communitychickens.com/egg-shell-problems-causes-and-cures/

This isn’t all of them, but they are the only ones I still have saved on my phone. I didn’t look at them again so hopefully they’re reliable. Happy reading!

@sumi’s article explains how the issues can occur, I recommend you look at it OP, it probably explained better than I did.

 

[aart]

Thanks to @sumi on how this is caused

Did you copy the whole post from her article?

 

[CHlCKEN]

Did you copy the whole post from her article?

It doesn’t seem right to accuse me of copying her post. P She was an amazing educator and that article really helped me back when Joy was having faulty eggs. However what I just wrote is not directly copied from her, but it includes information I got from her article in the past. I wrote my post and made sure to give her credit from what I directly got from her. I know how egg production works, and what I said was my understanding which was brought to me by many articles and research. I in no way copied anyone’s post, and I credited sumi for what I got from her article. My information IS based on reading It and others in the past, but if you feel that I should link some of those articles, I can do that. There’s lots of great info out there, @sumi was an amazing educator, and she really gave out a lot of amazing information to BYC and everyone.

I didn’t use articles right now to write my post but if you think that since it’s where I first got a lot of information, I will gladly edit my post and share them.

I’m sorry if I should have done that but I thought it would only matter if I credited for what I got directly for that article. Not for what I’ve learned over time from them

 

[CHlCKEN]

@aart I linked the articles I have saved. Hopefully that will be ok

 

[Mamapio]

Yes both eggs are from the same bird. She seems to have sorted it out now and is back to normal.

Both eggs from same bird?
Hopefully the creased and bumpy shell is just a one off glitch.

Speckles are not a health issue, and they can change daily.

'Speckled' eggs can happen for several different reasons...very few, if any, of which are a 'problem'.
Can be caused by:
Excess or uneven pigment coating.
Excess or uneven cuticle(bloom).
Excess calcium deposits.
Porous eggs can appear speckled.
Some birds lay them consistently, some only once in awhile.
The pigment or bloom can change appearance when wet, then change back when dry again.

As long as bird is getting a good diet and is healthy in every other way, it is no cause for concern.

 

[ejohnston7]

My sapphire gem pullet is just shy of 7 months old and has been laying for about a month. I have two questions:

1) Her eggs have been spotted the entire time. I was reading on this website that spots are a sign of a health problem. Do any other sapphire gem owners have spotted eggs? Or are yours just plain brown?

2) She laid a deformed egg today that led me to look into the egg deformity information on the site. This egg has a raised bumpy squiggle on the wider bottom end of the egg, the top is extra narrow and has grooves in it, and all the spots are on the top. Any clue what that indicates?

Normal egg on left, deformed egg on right:
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Deformed egg top:
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Deformed egg bottom:
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[ejohnston7]

I have 4 sapphire gems, each slightly darker or lighter than the next so I can tell them apart and the eggs change so much! They’re 9 mo, and I just collected this huge strange one today!