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    Gross! What is in this unfertilized egg??!!?

    Wyorp seems to have come up with the answer! So interesting, thanks for sending me that video, I watched it a couple of times. Fingers crossed I won’t see that again. Many thanks!
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    Gross! What is in this unfertilized egg??!!?

    She had laid it within the last 2 weeks. No issues before then, and I'm not aware of any since....but I use them as they lay them, first in, first out, you know.... :) It's a cyst of some sort, maybe an infection of something walled off in a cyst--maybe something like a fecalith, I don't know...
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    Gross! What is in this unfertilized egg??!!?

    Not a meat spot! It’s some type of fluid-filled cyst. Contains green fluid, not yellow if it were were a yolk.
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    Gross! What is in this unfertilized egg??!!?

    Well, I did some research into “undeveloped yolks,” and those still look like little yolks—the color on the mass in my egg is not like that of undeveloped yolks, which are still yellow. This could be a meat spot, but it’s HUGE and round
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    Gross! What is in this unfertilized egg??!!?

    Thank you so much!
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    Gross! What is in this unfertilized egg??!!?

    Thank you! Whew.
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    Gross! What is in this unfertilized egg??!!?

    This is from a hen about 2.5 years old, good layer, she is eating chick food right now with supplemental calcium available to her if she wants it due to new babies in the flock. This hit the pan like a rock. It’s vascular. No, I haven’t cut it open and don’t really want to! I think she and...
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    Gross! What is in this unfertilized egg??!!?

    This is from a hen about 2.5 years old, good layer, she is eating chick food right now with supplemental calcium available to her if she wants it due to new babies in the flock. This hit the pan like a rock. It’s vascular. No, I haven’t cut it open and don’t really want to! I think she and...
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    Vicious mother hen after weaning

    Hi, aart! Your response is very helpful. The coop has 4 nesting boxes, which are about 12" x 12". Excluding the nesting boxes, the coop itself is 4' x 4', with two roosts. There is no attached run, they have the freedom to run around my fenced-in quarter acre that has tons of hiding spaces...
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    Vicious mother hen after weaning

    Thanks so much! Perhaps it is just pecking order behavior. I’ll watch and see if her behavior settles down when they go in the coop. The birds free range in my large backyard, so chicks avoid her like the plague during the day. at night The chicks are reluctant to go in the coop ( which should...
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    Vicious mother hen after weaning

    Hi! I was down to one buff Orpington who went broody, and instead of hand raising New chicks For my flock in the house, I waited an appropriate amount of time and slipped some just hatched babies under her, which she gladly accepted! What a good mama she turned out to be! I did not see the...
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    Nearing 100 degrees F

    Hi! Try misting the ground down several times a day with water. The evaporation will temporarily cool them down. I have a mister that attaches to my hose, so it mists all day when it’s incredibly hot. I aim it *towards* their favorite shady spot, with the help of a slight breeze (hopefully)...
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    Chicken won’t go in hen house at night

    Good point about the parasites! Go out to your coop when it is pitch black at night, open the lid to the nesting boxes and shine a bright flashlight on the wood and corners, looking for tiny little red bugs scattering. I forget the name of them, but they could be coming out at night to pick on...
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