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Oh, sorry. No photos of the dissections and I already discarded. Here’s hoping I don’t have another egg like that today... but if I do, I will document more thoroughly.

At very top of thread, in original post.

Yes. Red yolk was a full-size, normal liquid yolk inside, and that chunk of stuff (smallish, like the size of a kidney bean) was like a bunch of little white pieces of waxy stuff. No other textures or colors.

We have a bunch of colored egg laying breeds: Easter Egger, Prairie Bluebell, sapphire olive egger, brown leghorn, rhode island red, salmon Faverolle, midnight Majesty marans, Welsummer, and Buff Orpington

We found this oddity on the roost this morning. We have 10 pullets who are 16-1/2 weeks old, and we haven’t seen anyone’s first egg yet. It’s time. Could this just be a start-up glitch? The coop is spacious, clean, and dry with vastly ample roost space, clean water daily, and we have just (a...

I posted yesterday about a croaky-sounding rooster (who sounds more normal today), and today I have heard a couple of my hens make sounds like coughing?! Can chickens cough? What might be up with my flock? They have a spacious, well-ventilated, dry coop and spend most of their time free ranging...

One of our roosters suddenly sounds bizarre, like he has a sore throat. His crow has gone from the , piercing, strident sound you’d expect from a rooster, to a strange croaky sound. He’s still tootling around, eating, sparring with the other roosters (gently), and all. But as the day has passed...

Nine weeks old yesterday.

I had heard you shouldn’t try to keep guinea fowl with chickens, so I didn’t. But our guinea flock was destroyed one bird at a time until we just had one. He was so lonely ... he went to the guinea shelter two nights in a row after his last buddy was killed, but then the third night, he went to...

I ordered this - will be delivered tomorrow. Hopefully this will help! I will also do a complete coop clean-out, both because it's generally time for that, and in case there's anything unfriendly in the litter.

A 2-year-old Isa Brown has a red area below/under her vent and the vent itself looks chapped. Nothing feels swollen, hard, and nothing looks distended. The feathers look matted like she has been playing in the mud - but we don’t have that kind of mud. They have a very dry coop with puh-lenty of...

I am not fond of chicken landscaping. They seem to think that the wood chips look much better kicked out onto the sidewalk than sitting in the foundation gardens around the house. I am actually thinking of building a much bigger run for the chickens this summer so that they can be comfy and...

We have 7 bantam roosters and they are sweet and shy and don’t pester anyone. But full-size rooster... I am spooked. But I am not a chicken executioner, so if one of these supposed pullets turns all roostery on us, we will definitely give him the benefit of the doubt.

I sent the photos to the hatchery and they said (with apparent confidence, no “probably”) “Yup. That’s a Sapphire Olive Egger female!” Hopefully they’re correct to be so confident. I really want olive eggs, and I really don’t want a rooster.

Well, we had two leghorn pullets two years ago and felt quite sure they must have been cockerels because they had huuuuuuuge combs when none of the other girls had any. That one you’re referring to on the left is a brown leghorn so I am hoping SHE is just following the pattern we saw with our...

Our mean rooster was actually completely fine through his whole first summer and fall. He suddenly started attacking my then-10-year-old son right around Thanksgiving. A couple weeks after that, he started challenging anyone who came into the yard. We took him to a different farm a couple weeks...

OK - I get it. I am just learning about chickens. This is only my third spring with chicks, and last year I had straight run bantams and knew about half would be roosters, so I didn’t pay any attention to “warning signs” for roosters. But this time I have full-size birds and I really don’t want...

The description doesn’t say what the hybrid mix is.

For reference, though, here are two other same-age chicks who are also supposed to be pullets: one brown leghorn and one Welsummer. They both have significant combs as well.