Someone said I should post this here, so here goes:
One of my hens has not given me any eggs since her first egg (laid saturday) so I have been watching her very closely. I keep catching her in the nest box, but no eggs. After a lengthy egg song earlier today and again, no egg, I decided to finally catch her (she is BY FAR my flightiest girl...and quite a fighter-I had a lot of scratches when I caught her to clip her wings -she still jumps/flies out of the run he ). When I turned her over to look at her vent and such there was what looked like a whisked-up egg oozing out (now granted, it may have been watery egg yolk colored poo-but it didn't look like it ) Did the stress of me catching her crush it? Or was it maybe a little too big for her to lay and it was stuck there, ready to burst? I saw no shell bits or anything like that. The other hens lay everyday without fail (good thick-shelled beautiful eggs)...any idea what is going on with her? She's my only green egg layer so I hope she'll lay again at some point. I'm terrified she was egg bound and I didn't know it. Oh, and before I caught her I did notice what i though was poo on her feathers below her vent-bit it looked fairly light colored...could it have been old dried egg that had oozed out? What on Earth is going on with her?
PS: I'm fairly new to chickens, so I seek your wisdom :>
One of my hens has not given me any eggs since her first egg (laid saturday) so I have been watching her very closely. I keep catching her in the nest box, but no eggs. After a lengthy egg song earlier today and again, no egg, I decided to finally catch her (she is BY FAR my flightiest girl...and quite a fighter-I had a lot of scratches when I caught her to clip her wings -she still jumps/flies out of the run he ). When I turned her over to look at her vent and such there was what looked like a whisked-up egg oozing out (now granted, it may have been watery egg yolk colored poo-but it didn't look like it ) Did the stress of me catching her crush it? Or was it maybe a little too big for her to lay and it was stuck there, ready to burst? I saw no shell bits or anything like that. The other hens lay everyday without fail (good thick-shelled beautiful eggs)...any idea what is going on with her? She's my only green egg layer so I hope she'll lay again at some point. I'm terrified she was egg bound and I didn't know it. Oh, and before I caught her I did notice what i though was poo on her feathers below her vent-bit it looked fairly light colored...could it have been old dried egg that had oozed out? What on Earth is going on with her?
PS: I'm fairly new to chickens, so I seek your wisdom :>
