Whatthecluck99
In the Brooder
- Mar 27, 2023
- 10
- 3
- 16
Happy Monday chicken community, I hope you and your feathered friends are doing lovely!
For the last nearly two weeks my white leghorn has been laying soft shelled eggs. She was a very very consistent layer, sometimes two large white eggs a day! The eggs are certainly not my concern, honestly I wish I had the resources to get her reproductive system removed, and just let her live a happy life egg-free!
I’m just very concerned about her health. Some days she looks great, has a bright red comb, is eating, drinking, pooping, and acting as healthy as can be(scratching, not hanging by herself, dust bathing, etc.). I do know they are VERY good at putting on a facade, though. Other days, right after she would try to lay and couldn’t, her comb would turn purple/black at the tips(which I know is a lack of oxygen getting to it), she would huddle under a bush, and keep to herself. This has been happening every two to three days. When this happens, I give her a soak in a warm bath with some lavender oil and Vaseline to help anything pass easily. She has been able to pass the soft shelled egg every time she has a soak, but has not laid a hard shelled egg in around two weeks(since it all started). Yesterday, I put her in the bath, and after about a half hour she passed a very small, white only, soft shelled egg. She was still having very watery poops after that, and when she defacated, a small white clump came out. It wasn’t the normal white that they poop, it was almost skin like, and calcified. I know Leghorns are prone to reproductive issues and cancers because they’re such hardy layers, and kidney failure as well. I’ve tried doing research, but haven’t found anything that really matched exactly what was happening to my girl. I was wondering if anyone that has any experience in that might be able to shed some light on my poor girls situation. Am I just keeping her comfortable at this point? She seems great a lot of the time, but there’s definitely something very wrong with her reproductive system. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I’m at a loss.
For the last nearly two weeks my white leghorn has been laying soft shelled eggs. She was a very very consistent layer, sometimes two large white eggs a day! The eggs are certainly not my concern, honestly I wish I had the resources to get her reproductive system removed, and just let her live a happy life egg-free!
I’m just very concerned about her health. Some days she looks great, has a bright red comb, is eating, drinking, pooping, and acting as healthy as can be(scratching, not hanging by herself, dust bathing, etc.). I do know they are VERY good at putting on a facade, though. Other days, right after she would try to lay and couldn’t, her comb would turn purple/black at the tips(which I know is a lack of oxygen getting to it), she would huddle under a bush, and keep to herself. This has been happening every two to three days. When this happens, I give her a soak in a warm bath with some lavender oil and Vaseline to help anything pass easily. She has been able to pass the soft shelled egg every time she has a soak, but has not laid a hard shelled egg in around two weeks(since it all started). Yesterday, I put her in the bath, and after about a half hour she passed a very small, white only, soft shelled egg. She was still having very watery poops after that, and when she defacated, a small white clump came out. It wasn’t the normal white that they poop, it was almost skin like, and calcified. I know Leghorns are prone to reproductive issues and cancers because they’re such hardy layers, and kidney failure as well. I’ve tried doing research, but haven’t found anything that really matched exactly what was happening to my girl. I was wondering if anyone that has any experience in that might be able to shed some light on my poor girls situation. Am I just keeping her comfortable at this point? She seems great a lot of the time, but there’s definitely something very wrong with her reproductive system. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I’m at a loss.