We found a weird tiny jelly like egg! What the heck??

[BamburghFarms]

I couldn’t get a picture bc one of my hens was trying to eat it thinking it was kitchen scraps and I got her away from it and scooped it into a sack with the straw it was in... don’t want ANYONE getting a taste for raw eggs! We don’t know who laid it and we have never had one before. It was laid in the bottom of the coop by the coop door and not in a nesting box. It was small like a quail egg and had like a white jelly skin on it and inside was just a tiny yolk and some egg white. We have never had this before and our regular eggs have such nice, hard, immaculate shells that you can drop one on the counter and it doesn’t crack through it lol. I have tried to google and I can’t get answers that match each other or make sense. Can anyone help? What is this thing and why would someone lay that if no one is sick and their calcium intake is on point? The last thing I need is the hen that found it today to start eating eggs! She is my husband’s favorite hen!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Sounds like a shell less fairy egg. Fairy eggs generally contain only a speck of yolk, but the body processes them as if they are a regular egg.

Shell less eggs can happen because of stress or when a hen is starting up or shutting down from laying. Both are normal and happen on occasion. They don't usually have anything to do with calcium, but it's always good to keep a separate bowl of oyster shells for any calcium needs.

 

[aart]

don’t want ANYONE getting a taste for raw eggs!

Ehhh....that won't turn them into hard shell breaking egg eaters.

How old are your birds?
Probably just a glitch....don't panic.

 

[chicki291]

I couldn’t get a picture bc one of my hens was trying to eat it thinking it was kitchen scraps and I got her away from it and scooped it into a sack with the straw it was in... don’t want ANYONE getting a taste for raw eggs! We don’t know who laid it and we have never had one before. It was laid in the bottom of the coop by the coop door and not in a nesting box. It was small like a quail egg and had like a white jelly skin on it and inside was just a tiny yolk and some egg white. We have never had this before and our regular eggs have such nice, hard, immaculate shells that you can drop one on the counter and it doesn’t crack through it lol. I have tried to google and I can’t get answers that match each other or make sense. Can anyone help? What is this thing and why would someone lay that if no one is sick and their calcium intake is on point? The last thing I need is the hen that found it today to start eating eggs! She is my husband’s favorite hen!

My hen has also laid such an egg before. I just put more calcium in her diet. My hen also lays eggs with rocksolid shells. But after the calcium in her diet she never laid another one like that, but also stopped for a while. So she's probably done with laying for a while. Don't worry - it's normal !