Fleshy deposits found in nestbox, has my chicken thrown her ovaries?!?

[chi-rn]

You mentioned having a rooster... is there any way the hen could have been sitting on a fertile egg that somehow went wrong?

 

[nurse_turtle]

I vote egg matter. Looks like some organ development was in progress and maybe her body rejected it somehow. Go figure but definately weird.

 

[Phage]

I am thinking "egg matter" of some sort as well.

 

[chi-rn]

The pics have been deleted from this previous post, but sounds similar to yours....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=281517&p=1

 

[FranBaker]

Unfortunately the chicken that we suspected produced the mass died in the coop overnight :-(

Thankyou all for your advice. I'm not sure if there would have been anything we could of done.
It is an interesting aspect of chicken health which I and it seems many others havent come across before - I would still very much like to understand how and why this has happened.

Answering the comment about the Rooster, we only just got him - he may of fertilised an egg she has produced, but with the previous 'lashes' I don't beleive that she has been producing any eggs.

I hope this thread helps anyone else that has found a similar mass laid by their chicken.
Thankyou, F.

 

[Tikkijane]

So sorry to hear this!

 

[chi-rn]

 

[jjthink]

I'm so sorry...

JJ

 

[OwensMom]

Fran, I've been following this thread. Don't know what happened to your chicken but I'm terribly sorry for your loss. You gave her a good life and what more could a chicken want. You tried to find answers and that is worth something.

 

[hcppam]

there was a on this Yesterday?, I think there was a link to pics.