Warm boot recommendations please

[Scaredyhen]

Hello,

 

One of my recently re-homed hens has laid two eggs with what I think are calcium deposits on. There is just white patches/mottled-like patterns on them - quite excessive but not bumpy and not brush off-able. We have had them three weeks and they are a year old. This particular hen has only started laying this past week - I'm not sure if this is the first time she had laid at all as her first three were very small. I had put her non laying down to the stress of moving house, but I'm not sure. She is a partridge brahma. Now I think of it and have googled, one of the others who lays white eggs usually appear quite bumpy.... Do these sound like calcium deposits? If so, should I be supplementing with something?

 

This is the closest thing I can find to it:

 

http://s988.photobucket.com/user/oleklorenc/media/Chickens%20Misc/DSC07024.jpg.html

 

They are fed layers pellets, and free range for a large part of the day - but do go in by themselves to have some pellets throughout the day. They get through a reasonable amount per day, so I think they are getting enough of these. They have two days in their run where I give them a cabbage hung up and various bits to scratch around for - vegetables, sunflower seeds, some corn etc. Then they free range for two hours on these days when my husband gets home. ETA - they also have free access to oystershell which I mix in with their grit.

 

Any thoughts, oh wise chickeny ones?

[Chickabee]

 

Managed to get the picture for you. I don't think this is anything to worry about. Looks like pigmentation. Would like to hear what others say though

[The Dogmother]

Calcium deposits will show as bumps (like barnacles) on the shell; what your photo shows is a slight inconsistency with the pigmentation. Not much you can do about it, but the egg will be fine.