Thank you for your support. I'm sorry to say she died this afternoon. It's too bad, I was going to try and drain some of the fluid with my vet-tech friend tomorrow.
She was the alpha of the flock.
I think your first idea is correct, it makes sense. I remember seeing what looked like a piece of cooked yolk in the coop and wondering where it came from.
Thanks for finding that information.
One of my hens has started to walk funny. It seems like she can't help but stand up straight. She seems bottom heavy. Her abdomen is firmer than the rest of the hens and a little bigger. I checked to see if she was eggbound but didn't feel anything.
About her:
2 years old. Laid wrinkled eggs...
I have a white leghorn that molted last May. She stopped laying during the molt and has never started back up. In the past, she laid large wrinkled eggs. I'm thinking her machinery has stopped working altogether. I've seen her in the nest box, but she never lays. It was her first molt and the...
My EE has the same thing on her eggs. Sometimes there's a lot, sometimes there's nothing. Seems to be genetic. Never affects the eggs though. I supplement with oyster shell.
My EE started laying eggs with bumpy clusters on it. Most of the time they just wash off. The ones at the tip of the egg are usually permanent. The shells aren't the problem though, I cracked open one of the eggs and found some of these clusters in the whites. They are just little spheres of...