Soft shelled eggs

[Altairsky]

Layer feed + free ranging + oyster shell, I also believe it's highly improbable that the issue is on the diet. I witnessed my hens eat plenty of dead snail shells while free ranging so even if you don't see them eat the oyster shells, they know how and where to get their calcium.
It can be something going on like an infection. Respiratory infections often involve the reproductive system because what affects the respiratory mucous membrane can also affect the egg gland mucous membrane.
Sometimes chickens don't show any symptom other than glitches on the eggs. One of my hens had some sneezing one night, then she laid glitchy eggs for a week with no other symptoms, and normal but sterile eggs for another week (and it wasn't the roo's fault), then everything went back to normal and she even hatched some babies.

 

[61L35]

Layer feed + free ranging + oyster shell, I also believe it's highly improbable that the issue is on the diet. I witnessed my hens eat plenty of dead snail shells while free ranging so even if you don't see them eat the oyster shells, they know how and where to get their calcium.
It can be something going on like an infection. Respiratory infections often involve the reproductive system because what affects the respiratory mucous membrane can also affect the egg gland mucous membrane.
Sometimes chickens don't show any symptom other than glitches on the eggs. One of my hens had some sneezing one night, then she laid glitchy eggs for a week with no other symptoms, and normal but sterile eggs for another week (and it wasn't the roo's fault), then everything went back to normal and she even hatched some babies.

So what can I do?

 

[Altairsky]

It will go away on its own.

 

[61L35]

Yes you can give them human calcium with d tablets orally, 300-600 mg is the usual dosage once a day for up to 7 days. They could have salpingitis (inflammation of the oviduct,) or something going on with the shell gland in the oviduct. If it continues, you could check in to hormone implants, to stop them laying for up to 6 months, but they can be expensive and a vet who gives them may be hard to find.

Hey so little quick update I haven’t had a soft shell egg today but I did find a lash egg in the nesting box today. Chickens are acting normally but just that. Is their anything I can give to them?

 

[61L35]

Yes you can give them human calcium with d tablets orally, 300-600 mg is the usual dosage once a day for up to 7 days. They could have salpingitis (inflammation of the oviduct,) or something going on with the shell gland in the oviduct. If it continues, you could check in to hormone implants, to stop them laying for up to 6 months, but they can be expensive and a vet who gives them may be hard to find.

Also I have amoxicillin that I can give them to treat it but I’m afraid it’ll do bad for the chickens that aren’t sick.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Hey so little quick update I haven’t had a soft shell egg today but I did find a lash egg in the nesting box today. Chickens are acting normally but just that. Is their anything I can give to them?

You'd need to figure out who it came from, so only that bird gets treated. If it's bacterial salpingitis then antibiotics can kill it off.

 

[61L35]

You'd need to figure out who it came from, so only that bird gets treated. If it's bacterial salpingitis then antibiotics can kill it off.

What antibiotics should I use? I only got penicillin and amoxicillin on me.

 

[rosemarythyme]

What antibiotics should I use? I only got penicillin and amoxicillin on me.

Amoxicillin is reported to work on salpingitis.

 

[Altairsky]

One single lash egg with no other simptoms means nothing. Wait and see if it happens again. Antibiotics shouldn't be thrown around randomly like confetti.