Crazy chickn lady
In the Brooder
Please refer to the photos as it is hard to explain what has been happening to her lately.
The white thing is a very soft shell and the yellow is obviously the egg yolk.
That was this morning while standing there she just pushes this out like a poo.
Yesterday morning was messy, yolk was in the coop and then she pushed the soft broken egg shell and the rest of the yolk mixed in with some poo a bit later - at least a few hours after she did it in the coop.
At first she was laying consistent everyday almost (shes only 1 year old), and only had a couple of soft shelled egg incidents. That gradually became more frequent and now she laying egg yolk and broken soft shelled eggs every second morning and a good egg every other morning. So it was a good one one day then bad then good etc.etc. i went to the vet about it and the vet said she looked and behaved healthy (she does), she doesn't have egg peritonitis as the abdomen was not swollen and she must of passed it all through her. Which is good, but she has done it two days in a row now, yesterday being exceptionally bad and also noticed that her crop has not fully emptied the past two days.. yesterday morning it was still full but fixed that. But this morning it still has a little bit of food in it. I'm concerned this egg laying problem is causing the ph balance in her crop to become imbalanced.
I just want to know what it is and what i can do to help her so it doesn't get worse. Hormone treatment? Get ovaries removed? Is it a defective shell gland?
The white thing is a very soft shell and the yellow is obviously the egg yolk.
That was this morning while standing there she just pushes this out like a poo.
Yesterday morning was messy, yolk was in the coop and then she pushed the soft broken egg shell and the rest of the yolk mixed in with some poo a bit later - at least a few hours after she did it in the coop.
At first she was laying consistent everyday almost (shes only 1 year old), and only had a couple of soft shelled egg incidents. That gradually became more frequent and now she laying egg yolk and broken soft shelled eggs every second morning and a good egg every other morning. So it was a good one one day then bad then good etc.etc. i went to the vet about it and the vet said she looked and behaved healthy (she does), she doesn't have egg peritonitis as the abdomen was not swollen and she must of passed it all through her. Which is good, but she has done it two days in a row now, yesterday being exceptionally bad and also noticed that her crop has not fully emptied the past two days.. yesterday morning it was still full but fixed that. But this morning it still has a little bit of food in it. I'm concerned this egg laying problem is causing the ph balance in her crop to become imbalanced.
I just want to know what it is and what i can do to help her so it doesn't get worse. Hormone treatment? Get ovaries removed? Is it a defective shell gland?