What could she need?

[mertzee]

My hen has been having trouble for a while now with laying. She laid this today and it looks to me like it’s been pecked open? It was really small and the shell is thin. This is the second egg like this. I think she must be lacking in something I just don’t know what. All my other birds are just fine. Any suggestions?

 

[azygous]

It's good you noticed this problem. You may have saved her a future episode of egg binding or ruptured egg in the reproductive tract. You need to buy some of this.

Give her one whole tablet directly into her beak right away. This will quickly bring her calcium blood levels up and start to strengthen her shells.

Give one a day until her shells are sturdy. Then you can stop giving it. This is meant short term for reproductive crises, not as a daily supplement.

For a daily calcium supplement, she should have constant access to oyster shell so she can nibble it when she craves a calcium boost. If you are already supplying oyster shell, be sure it's accessible and the particles haven't been reduced to pulverized powder as a hen depends on large shell particles staying in her digestive tract long enough to be properly absorbed.

When oyster shell is reduced to powder, just dump it on your flowerbeds or garden and buy new.

 

[mertzee]

Thank you!!! She laid a huge double yolker about 2 weeks ago and since then she has had a ruptured egg internally I believe (she passed it all it appears). She has also laid a couple very thin shelled ones.

She has had poopy butt too ever since I got her, could this be part of that as well?

 

[azygous]

If she had an egg rupture inside her, it would have been a major health emergency. You would have noticed.

Poopy butts are a feature of many hens, young and old. Live with it or wash the poopy butts.

 

[mertzee]

We’ll that’s good news but my mom picked her up and thought she had pooped on her but when she checked she had yolk on her from her breast to her shoe. She later passed this....it was in the nest. It is definitely an egg and it was wet when I found it.

 

[BDutch]

I think it’s called excrement. Best look it up. Maybe you’re chicken had an infection.
Good luck with her!

 

[azygous]

It helps to cut and slice something strange like that. And measure it or place a familiar object next to it for scale so we know how large it is. You can't really tell for sure what it is unless you examine it thoroughly.

There is a condition call internal laying, and eggs get detoured into the abdominal cavity and they sit there for a while and the hens body heat literally cooks them. Slicing one of those will reveal a hard boiled egg inside.

You can post all sorts of photos, but they are two dimensional, meaning we can't see all around and under and over the object. We can't smell it, either. We rely on your thorough descriptions telling us these things we can't know from a flat internet pic.

Your description of egg yolk from breast to shoe, is it referring to your mom or your hen? If an egg ruptured inside, the egg will be dripping out of the vent and the hen would be straining to get it all out. The hen usually feels sick during the ordeal.

 

[aart]

Not sure what this is, was it soft or hard(like egg shell)?
.....zoomed in and brightened.

 

[mertzee]

It helps to cut and slice something strange like that. And measure it or place a familiar object next to it for scale so we know how large it is. You can't really tell for sure what it is unless you examine it thoroughly.

There is a condition call internal laying, and eggs get detoured into the abdominal cavity and they sit there for a while and the hens body heat literally cooks them. Slicing one of those will reveal a hard boiled egg inside.

You can post all sorts of photos, but they are two dimensional, meaning we can't see all around and under and over the object. We can't smell it, either. We rely on your thorough descriptions telling us these things we can't know from a flat internet pic.

Your description of egg yolk from breast to shoe, is it referring to your mom or your hen? If an egg ruptured inside, the egg will be dripping out of the vent and the hen would be straining to get it all out. The hen usually feels sick during the ordeal.

She was feeling puny for a while but it was definitely yolk on my mom’s clothes. She tried for days to pass that. It is absolutely an egg if you could blow the pics up you could see the thin shell flaking off it. I did open it and it was definitely an egg.

 

[azygous]

Is it solid like a cooked egg?Or are we seeing the membrane and thin shell?

If she had an egg break inside her, it's always a good idea to do a round of an oral antibiotic so she doesn't develop a chronic reproductive infection.That would make her sterile and shorten her life considerably.

https://www.kvsupply.com/item/aqua-mox-250mg-capsules-100-count/P06184/ One of these a day for ten days.