Hen Laid Really Strange Object (graphic Pics)

Aliens.

Kidding aside, I'm curious if there has ever been a case of a chicken having an undeveloped siamese twin inside which was eventually passed. Is that even possible?

Yep, My hen has laid 3 of these things! someone~~ANYONE, know what these things are??

did you find out what they are? my hen has laid 3 ~1 in the water trough!

ive found 3 so far same size pert much so in a few days time.

Call me crazy, but the picture is gone, and I really wanted to see it

Wow, what an old thread to pop back up. Brings back memories.

For the new posters, I remember the "egg roll" pictures. It really looked like an egg roll, in a weird gross sort of way. It was probably what is called a "lash". A rare sort of thing with little info available.

Here's several pages of discussion. with similar pictures.


http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/rule-roost/strange-object-nest-box_25234.html

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Very relieved to find this thread after googling strange objects laid by chickens.

Our three-and-a-half year old Isa brown had not laid for about three weeks. (Violet normally lays about four eggs per week.) She was also suffering from diarrhoea for the first week of her egg drought. We had, however, just moved her to a new location (our six girls came with us on summer holidays) and we also found a large paralysis tick near her eye, which we removed. So between all these stresses, I was not completely surprised that she had not laid. I kept a close eye on her but she was not exhibiting any signs of egg-binding and was eating and behaving normally, apart from the initial diarrhoea and the absence of eggs.

This morning, the first day after we returned home, she spent about an hour in the laying box before uttering an unsually triumphant cry. I went to collect her egg - she normally lays very large eggs, around 90g - and instead found what looked like a piece of cooked chicken sitting in a puddle of egg. No shell in sight. Just the strangest thing I have ever seen.

I went inside and put on a pair of gloves to handle the mass, which I initially thought might be an ovary or some other internal organ. It had the consistency, colour and smell (!) of cooked chicken and was about the same size as an egg, though not a perfect oval. I nearly threw up just trying to examine it. Couldn't bring myself to slice it open...

We don't have a rooster and I'm inclined to agree with previous posts that this might be the accumulation of protein around a trapped egg.

Would love to hear from anyone else with experience in this situation. I've had chickens on and off for thirty years and I've never seen anything like it.

Kilcornan said:

Very relieved to find this thread after googling strange objects laid by chickens.

Our three-and-a-half year old Isa brown had not laid for about three weeks. (Violet normally lays about four eggs per week.) She was also suffering from diarrhoea for the first week of her egg drought. We had, however, just moved her to a new location (our six girls came with us on summer holidays) and we also found a large paralysis tick near her eye, which we removed. So between all these stresses, I was not completely surprised that she had not laid. I kept a close eye on her but she was not exhibiting any signs of egg-binding and was eating and behaving normally, apart from the initial diarrhoea and the absence of eggs.

This morning, the first day after we returned home, she spent about an hour in the laying box before uttering an unsually triumphant cry. I went to collect her egg - she normally lays very large eggs, around 90g - and instead found what looked like a piece of cooked chicken sitting in a puddle of egg. No shell in sight. Just the strangest thing I have ever seen.

I went inside and put on a pair of gloves to handle the mass, which I initially thought might be an ovary or some other internal organ. It had the consistency, colour and smell (!) of cooked chicken and was about the same size as an egg, though not a perfect oval. I nearly threw up just trying to examine it. Couldn't bring myself to slice it open...

We don't have a rooster and I'm inclined to agree with previous posts that this might be the accumulation of protein around a trapped egg.

Would love to hear from anyone else with experience in this situation. I've had chickens on and off for thirty years and I've never seen anything like it.

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Kilcornan said:

Very relieved to find this thread after googling strange objects laid by chickens.

Our three-and-a-half year old Isa brown had not laid for about three weeks. (Violet normally lays about four eggs per week.) She was also suffering from diarrhoea for the first week of her egg drought. We had, however, just moved her to a new location (our six girls came with us on summer holidays) and we also found a large paralysis tick near her eye, which we removed. So between all these stresses, I was not completely surprised that she had not laid. I kept a close eye on her but she was not exhibiting any signs of egg-binding and was eating and behaving normally, apart from the initial diarrhoea and the absence of eggs.

This morning, the first day after we returned home, she spent about an hour in the laying box before uttering an unsually triumphant cry. I went to collect her egg - she normally lays very large eggs, around 90g - and instead found what looked like a piece of cooked chicken sitting in a puddle of egg. No shell in sight. Just the strangest thing I have ever seen.

I went inside and put on a pair of gloves to handle the mass, which I initially thought might be an ovary or some other internal organ. It had the consistency, colour and smell (!) of cooked chicken and was about the same size as an egg, though not a perfect oval. I nearly threw up just trying to examine it. Couldn't bring myself to slice it open...

We don't have a rooster and I'm inclined to agree with previous posts that this might be the accumulation of protein around a trapped egg.

Would love to hear from anyone else with experience in this situation. I've had chickens on and off for thirty years and I've never seen anything like it.

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I know this a very old post, but I have a hen who has laid something similar this morning and according to the vet is a "lash egg" which is no egg at all. It is coagulated pus which formed because of an infection (bacterial or viral) which caused inflammation in the hen's oviduct. The hen's immune system tries to wall-off the infection with this waxy, cheese-like pus. This pus may or may not contain yolk, albumen, egg shell, egg membrane, blood or tissue from the oviduct wall, but it is mainly a yellowish, cheesy mass. The condition is called Salpingitis and the prognosis for a hen who laid a lash egg, is very poor indeed, but you can try to treat her with antibiotics. If you can stop the infection, she will survive. The infection in this hen probably started when she was injured. Hope this help someone. Hermie Grobbelaar