soft shell egg

  1. Icehen99

    Soft shell egg … normal ?

    I have a small flock of 4 hens and they’re all new layers . 2 of them (marans) haven’t started laying . But today my olive egger laid a soft shell egg. It was broken on the coop floor and not even in the nesting box. It was the 3rd egg she has laid . It has been HOT in Minnesota where I live so...
  2. Winchikn

    6 yr old hen with soft-shelled egg

    Hello BYC friends, I have a 6-year old Ameraucana/Easter Egger who has been an intermittent layer the last couple of years. She laid a few eggs earlier this spring and nothing for several weeks. Then she laid one nice little egg last week (with a very dark yolk). Today, I noticed she was...
  3. H

    Egg bound? Or something else?

    Hi all! So I just came home from vacation and went out to check on my two hens (both 6 years old, a lavender orpington and an olive egger). The orpington, Phoebe, seemed a little off when I went out there. She was a bit lethargic and her wings were drooping, which I originally attributed to the...
  4. S

    Sick hen

    Hi all. I have a showgirl hen who is about a year old. She started laying soft eggs about 4 weeks ago and then stopped laying altogether (I think) about a week ago. This morning I noticed a change in her poop (loose diarrhea with some yellow leakage) and she seems to have lost weight. She is on...
  5. C

    Soft shell egg with yolk and tubular something??

    Long storyline, I apologize. About a month ago one of my hens (black sex link) started closing her eye and it began getting cloudy, no longer laying eggs, and was more lethargic than normal. I was treating the flock with tylosin (just in case) and treating her with that plus terramycin. The...
  6. M

    Duck laid soft shell egg and half sized harder egg within 10-15 mins

    I have a close to 6 month old Welsh Harlequin who I noticed slowing down and breathing on the heavy side, laying down, tail down, wings down. She has laid and egg this morning so I was concerned she ate something she shouldn't have or a blockage. Within the hour just before 2pm she did a clear...
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  7. H

    Is Morning Bird calcium plus liquid supplement safe for chickens?

    Hi all! I have two 5-year-old hens who refuse to eat oyster shells no matter how hard I try. This summer, they’ve started laying eggs with really thin shells and even laid a soft-shelled egg once. I’ve been adding HydroHen and some electrolyte packets to their water a few times a week which has...
    • HannahL
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    • Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
  8. S

    Chronic soft egg issue

    Hello! I have a Gold Laced Wyandotte who has always had some egg issues. - once or twice a month she’ll lay eggs with such thin and brittle shells that they break when you try to write the date on them. - every few months or so she’ll lay a shell-less or *very* soft shelled egg. My hens are...
  9. SolarDuck

    Soft egg binding

    Hey all long time no see, 4 days ago my ducko pipsqueak laid a pretty nasty looking soft shell egg in the pool so I've been giving her daily calcium supplements since, but the next day I noticed it looked like another egg was in her chamber and after feeling it through her it is clearly another...
    • SolarDuck
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  10. The Welch Chickens

    Soft shell egg with calcium deposits

    🔝This soft shell egg was just found on the run floor. It’s a Prairie Bluebell Egger by the looks of it (blue calcium); we have two PB Eggers and they often lay eggs with light calcium deposits. We already got two eggs from them today, so one hen apparently laid twice. I’ve gotten one soft...
  11. W

    White Leghorn Struggling To Lay, Only Laying Soft Shelled Eggs

    Happy Monday chicken community, I hope you and your feathered friends are doing lovely! For the last nearly two weeks my white leghorn has been laying soft shelled eggs. She was a very very consistent layer, sometimes two large white eggs a day! The eggs are certainly not my concern, honestly I...
  12. C

    Chicken soft shell egg stuck in the vent area

    I have 2 hens who are getting weaker and appear to have a soft shell egg destroyed inside them. I've tried getting some pieces out but no luck. It's hard when they keep moving and when they close their vent. One of them (Goldie) has been in the nest box for the whole night trying to get it out...
  13. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Recurring Egg Yok Peritonitis (EYP) - Options? Advice?

    Hi, Everyone. My EE, Easter, is a little over 4 y/o and has, this past month, been struggling with recurring cases of EYP which thus far has been treatable. She's been an odd case all her life. Here's a snapshot of her history. Easter is pint-sized with an unstoppable will to survive. She's the...
  14. divineangel94

    Help

    I have a hen who looked healthy but hasn’t eaten too much. She’s six years old. This morning I found a soft shelled egg (that the chickens already devoured) with this bloody stuff in it. I have gotten soft shells before, just not like this. She still eats some treats and applesauce. I gave her...
  15. applethechicken

    Chicken laying shell less/ thin shelled eggs in the middle of the night on roosts

    I have an almost 1 year old ameraucana (Peach) that has laid three soft shelled eggs (a little bit of shell development) in the middle of the night. I found one last Tuesday (3/21) morning under the roosts, and that egg was supposed to be laid around 12 pm Tuesday, so it was laid hours early. I...
  16. T

    my duck has lay two soft shell eggs after a hard one

    hi there, my duck Mango has laid a perfectly fine hard egg this morning. however this afternoon she’s laid a soft shell egg followed by another one less than an hour later. she’s 2 years this november so it’s not her first lay. she has also got a good diet, layer feed eggshells and mealworms and...
    • TaylerRae
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  17. NubbyRyuu

    FouMy First Soft-Shelled Egg This Morning

    Pretty sure it was my Leilei. I snapped her out of being broody in the past week, and she's been back-and-forth having a full crop at night. She has good weight on her, and she looks and acts fine. Contents of the egg was a normal egg white. I've been giving my babies a teaspoon of Rooster...
  18. Buckwheat77

    Shell less eggs/soft egg/weird clumps

    Hello everyone ! So my girl Sven has something weird going on. I’m suspecting it’s an infection somewhere in the laying process … other than the eggs she is completely fine - no breathing, inflammation, Bumblefoot or anything else on the outside. She’s eating and drinking as normal. She also...
  19. W

    Soft shell layer Chicken stopped eating

    Hi everyone, I have a 2 year old blue jersey giant that stopped eating over the weekend. What triggered it was that she had been laying soft shell eggs and half of the membrane was stuck inside. I tried hot bath, check her vent but couldn’t find the membrane. She has been pooping small watery...
  20. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Older ISA Brown Quit Laying

    My 3 y/o ISA Brown, Buffy, has stopped laying and her comb and wattles are pale. Beyond that, her energy and appetite are good, no swelling in her abdominal region, and her poops look beautiful lol. She's not spending any time in the nest box like she's trying to lay either. Should I be...
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