egg abnormalities

Hi All, I have a 7mo old Silkie hen, Mango, who started laying about a month ago. This morning we noticed her acting lethargic so we brought her inside and gave her some poultry cell. While holding her, she passed a shell less egg. This is the second time she’s done this. She seemed to be...

I don’t even know why this egg looks like this. It’s from a chicken that’s already been laying this is her first year.

Anyone ever get a super long egg with a bit of an indention? I can usually tell which egg comes from which chicken (I only have 2 layers right now. I have bad luck getting roos among sexed chicks) I want to say by the color and small white marks it's my buff that I just broke out of being...

Help! Today whilst I was at work my duck Custard laid her first egg but there was some kind of cord attached. Is this normal? My duck seems very sad and tired now. Also could anyone recommend food I could buy in the UK or any special supplements for laying ducks? I already give my ducks...

Within the last few weeks one of my black copper marans started laying eggs with this dark brown streak and when I candle those eggs the air pocket looks weird! It’s a bunch of smaller air bubbles and I don’t know why it is happening? I am still working on identifying which hen is laying these...

Hello, All! I'm hoping the amazing folks here can help. I took my girl, Thyme, to the vet a week ago because she was lethargic, not eating, and laying shell-less eggs. She is a 22 week old Buff Orpington and her issues started when she began laying about a week-and-a-half ago. She had a TON of...

My 4 ISA Browns have been laying for about a month now (hatch date March 10 2023) and have been consistently smooth rich brown eggs with strong shells today I get this lighter one with Etch-aSketch pattern Mostly free range in suburb backyard, layer pellets and cracked corn when they’re in...

** Update: she was standing and eating this morning!** Hi! I have a 1 year and 3 month old Lavender Orpington named Priscilla. Yesterday she had a soft shelled white membrane hanging from her vent. Soaked her in warm Epsom and it came right out. She was free ranging with her sisters, but...

I have a 2/5 year old aylesbury female duck. The one in the right side: . She started laying at 5 month. She ve been getting calsium since she started laying. She had normal daily laying. Without any pain. She eat normal and she was a happy healthy duck. Sometimes she laid two eggs in a day...

hi all! so i noticed recently that one of my hens, opal, has a large mass on her wattle. i looked it up and didn’t see anything that matched her specific condition. her wattle appears to be red and healthy, she’s eating and drinking just fine. her energy levels are high and she is acting like a...

So recently, my 22week old flock has started laying eggs. For the past two days, this chick had been going in and out of the nesting box like she’s getting ready to lay. Tonight, I count all them in the coop and I notice she seems constipated on the roosting bar. Then bam, an egg just drops...

I bought some 15 month old ISA browns off a lady just over a week ago ( she had many other chickens and Cockerells) they have been laying lovely eggs most days, but today I found the weirdest looking egg in their nesting box. It's almost like rubber, it's not a hard shell, very soft and...

Hello, everyone. For the second time this week, our sweet one-year-old Olive Egger has layed a GIANT egg, with its own white and yolk, and with a fully formed “normal” egg inside! Here you see the rinsed version (broken yolk and egg white rinsed away). The super large egg is misshapen and has a...

So, I have a two year-old Pekin, who laid an egg this morning and it was inside of a membrane. She is currently having issues with one of her legs, this has been ongoing for several months. The vet after several visits could not figure out why she’s having this issue, except may be neurological...

I am having this issue now although I really need help as it's been months. I've been in and out of hospice, and over that time my mom handled my chickens and they developed this. I am trying everything, even filling fake eggs with mustard. It is my entire flock and they camp out in the coop...

Hello. I have 3 adult hens who I have had to treat yearly for roundworms. This has been confirmed by fecal float in the past though I did not take a sample in this year because the only vet around me that will test a sample requires me to bring the chicken in for an exam as well which is quite...

Help, my duck seems to be trying to lay an egg, but she laid this I believe??? She’s been really broody lately and I’m worried. What is this, and how can I help her?

I have a hen who has laid eggs like this two days in a row now, is this something I should be worried about? If so I will go and try to figure out who’s laying them, but I just want to ask. When I shine a light on it, it looks like there is no yolk.

Hey everyone! I opened the coop to gather eggs this morning. I haven’t gathered in 2-3 days but I have very strange looking eggs. I don’t know what they are and I’ve searched but can’t figure out what they are. The closest thing I could find were lash eggs but they still look nothing like this...

Hi chicken folks My Easter egger laid her first egg of the season and it was extremely bloody inside. The whole white was dark red and there was a large gooey red lump in it as shown in the image. The egg itself was oddly shaped, oblong, and had a streak of different color on the shell. I've...