HELP!!! My chicken is laying smelly eggs with black yokes

happychickengirls said:

So my fellow chicken owners has anyone heard of this before? One of my chicks has been laying eggs as usual but  when I crack them open it is like a stinkbomb went off in my house. The yokes are black!!!!/img/smilies/sad.png  I have been feeding them their regular layer pellet food , lots of water, some oyster shells and I do feed them table scraps. They do free range during the day.  This particular chicken does have black gooey poo coming off her but and her rearend is raw because of it. ( Kind of like a baby having diaper rash) 

What do I do???? I have heard it is probably something she ate but this has been going on for a little while now. Any input would be much appreciated. Thanks

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I AM HAVING THE SAME ISSUE!!!!
No horses around our girls...
No Cotton meal feed... their corn feed is GMO and hasn't changed
Their feed has not changed except for the kitchen scraps they receive from us and a co-worker who gives us their scraps as well

This is NOT completely consistent we mostly get normal eggs from her but every once in a while these BLACK ROTTEN FOUL SMELLING eggs. They seem mostly normal before the shell is cracked EXCEPT the eggs seems a bit lighter and there is not much of a yolk sloshing around when jostled.
ALSO.... there are no PHOTOS these are WAY too foul to document or keep around long enough to grab a phone/camera.
HELP AND SEND NOSE PLUGS.

ByrdWc3 said:

I AM HAVING THE SAME ISSUE!!!!
No horses around our girls...
No Cotton meal feed... their corn feed is GMO and hasn't changed
Their feed has not changed except for the kitchen scraps they receive from us and a co-worker who gives us their scraps as well

This is NOT completely consistent we mostly get normal eggs from her but every once in a while these BLACK ROTTEN FOUL SMELLING eggs. They seem mostly normal before the shell is cracked EXCEPT the eggs seems a bit lighter and there is not much of a yolk sloshing around when jostled.
ALSO.... there are no PHOTOS these are WAY too foul to document or keep around long enough to grab a phone/camera.
HELP AND SEND NOSE PLUGS.

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Did you read all the posts in the thread?
In particular the 2 posts quoted below and the links in them?

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RhodeIslandRedFan said:

Here is some information on rotten eggs. Not sure if this is what is/was going on with your hen http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/1/egg-quality-handbook/34/rotten-eggs

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Yeah I saw the posts but this is sporadic and it would seem if she was suffering from a staph infection or any infection that was untreated the symptoms (black smelly eggs) would persist.

I just had my first black yoke today. I was so upset!! It did not smell tho. I was so relieved to read these posts. I'm not sure how she got cotton seed meal. The worst part is that I dont know which one it is.
Kelly

Hi new here was searching for help as well ive kept chickens for around 15 years now never had a problem but about 6 weeks ago a friend told me one of my eggs was black and stank although it looked and smelled fine on the outside. I put it down to maybe an egg that had got lost in the nest box and resurfaced until i cracked one at the weekend then my neighbour told me today he had one last week im at my wits end. Ive always fed them layers pellets and they get scraps i have 20 chickens they are cleaned out thoroughly every week. Any further ideas on this please?

Does anyone have anything new on this? I have had several of these eggs in the past couple of months and they are hideously disgusting!! Luckily, it was my husband who got to crack the first few eggs and was able to warn me.

I had been smelling this fishy smell in my mother's kitchen for a couple days, but she couldn't smell it. Anyway, I was washing my eggs before cracking them and it dawned on me that the smell was coming from the eggs. I was hesitant to throw them out because I really, really wanted scrambled eggs and those were the last two eggs, but after sniffing at the shell of one of the eggs, I decided that I wasn't taking a chance. While walking outside to throw them down the hill, I thought I felt one of the eggs slosh inside it's shell, so I shook it. It did slosh. I thought, "That's odd," and shook the other egg to see if it sloshed too. It did. When I got behind the shed, I lightly tapped the first egg on a rock.... and it EXPLODED! There was this white frothy stuff that spew out of the egg and then I could see, partially still in the shell that I had dropped, a black tarry, slimy looking substance. I threw the other egg down the hill and high-tailed it out of there. I didn't want to experience the stink my husband had told me about. I would really like to know why this is happening and how to stop it.

Further note. My chickens have been laying very few eggs this summer. It started out great, but about halfway through August we've been lucky to get one egg a day from 12 laying hens. We also have 7 youngsters who are expected to start laying pretty soon, since they hatched at the beginning of April.

Any information, ideas, suggestions with regard to what's going on would be gratefully appreciated. Especially by my husband!

Jenn

Junebugsin said:

Any information, ideas, suggestions with regard to what's going on would be gratefully appreciated. Especially by my husband!

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Might be something in one of the links in these two posts:

ChooksChick said:

This appears to be caused by staph infections, and the egg yolk is retained longer than it ought to be.

This is a bit long and mundane, but it gives the pertinent info, too.

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/204200.htm

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RhodeIslandRedFan said:

Here is some information on rotten eggs. Not sure if this is what is/was going on with your hen http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/1/egg-quality-handbook/34/rotten-eggs

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aart said:

Might be something in one of the links in these two posts:

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Thanks for the info!! I'll check it out.