Please Explain?

[Shezbug]

Any one know why this happens to my friends chooks eggs from time to time, she said it’s only when an extra big egg is laid.

 

[Zara]

If I saw this in my lovies I´d think calcium deficiency, but I have no idea with chickens

@fashionfobie @Catherine89

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

Whoa.... that's a wierd egg! Alien chicken? I googled wrinkled egg shells and found this... gotta love google!!!!

Wrinkled Egg Shells

If the egg white (or albumen as it is called is watery it is harder for a shell to be built correctly and can cause an egg shell to be wrinkled.

poultrykeeper.com

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

Eggs: ‘Ovoiding’ problems and other peculiarities | Pocket Farm Magazine

www.pocketfarm.co.uk

 

[fashionfobie]

@Shezbug Holy Potatoes! That is a big egg

My hen Silvermoon started laying shell-less eggs in her later years. The membrane was still tough enough to hold the yolk and everything together. It was a weird jelly ball egg, we didn't eat those- probably could have though. I personally haven't had wrinkle eggs, but I agree with the pocketfarm blog that @Mockinbirdiva posted. Especially since it is such a big egg.

 

[Shezbug]

@fashionfobie it is a massive egg- poor chook.
In he past when I had chooks I did get some wrinkle eggs and also some of the jelly ones you describe.
Aren’t chickens fascinating?