broken eggs

  1. thoeffel1994

    Today and yesterday I went down to my broody ducks nest and noticed egg shells outside of the nest and broken!?

    I went down to my ducks nest and found broken egg shells two days in a row!? Do you think it was the mother that did this or something else? Has anyone else had this problem ever?
    • thoeffel1994
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    • broken eggs broody duck incubation
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    • Forum: Ducks
  2. P

    Water glassing

    I am new here and to chickens. I started water glassing eggs last month. I went to put new eggs in today and one of my eggs was completely broken. Help!! I don’t want to throw my eggs away.
  3. K

    Egg bound, vent gleet, motility problem story

    I’m sharing my story in hopes that it will help someone else if they have something similar happen. I don’t know the ending yet, but I have some things that I’ve learned along the way that I wish I’d known early on. Our Khaki Campbell, Goldie started having trouble a little over a month ago...
    • Kbduckmom
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    • broken eggs egg bound motility probiotics vent gleet
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Ducks
  4. Radrussie

    Nesting box / hygiene / eggs not hatching

    Hi everyone, So... I have a chicken that is sitting on some eggs. it is day 21 today from when I first noticed her sitting. During this period about 3 eggs broke. I cleaned the nesting box out as best I could without washing the eggs. However some of the eggs are a little dirty bit of egg my...
  5. H

    Hen Laying Soft Eggs

    I’ve tried adding oyster shells! I have one hen of four whose eggs continue to be soft on the narrow end and occasionally, the whole egg is soft. This has been an ongoing problem for months. I allow them to free range, but tried stopping to make sure the hens were eating only their calcium...
  6. HappilyHartley

    Laying in odd places

    Hi, my girls just started laying 8 days ago. Hens are 18 weeks on Tuesday the 13th. I don't know which of my 5 are laying. One uses the nesting box and lays beautiful brown eggs. The shell is nice, smooth and hard and yokes are beautiful. I think it is one of my Rhode Island Reds. Then I have...
  7. Sacri

    Who is killing the babies???

    We have a broody chicken so I got four fertilized eggs from a friend. About 7 days in I found an egg out of the nest and cracked. Upon inspection, there was nothing growing in it so I figured that was why. However yesterday another egg was knocked out of the nest (looked like it had been...
    • Sacri
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    • broken eggs broody chicken mom abandoning eggs unhatched eggs
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  8. C

    Ducks keep breaking eggs

    I have three pekins who have been laying eggs for the past few months. Up until a few weeks ago, there was no problem with breakage, except occasionally a soft shelled one would be broken. I have two nesting boxes, but they prefer to all lay in the same one. For the past few weeks there's been...
    • CoriM
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    • broken eggs pekins
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  9. TwoShepherds

    Broken egg in nest box

    Do chickens ever accidently break eggs while they are jostling around in the nest boxes, particularly newish layers? Twice in the last two weeks, I have found a broken egg in the girls' favorite nest box. I have twelve pullets, hatched May 13th. I think the first broken egg happened around the...
  10. S

    Help!! Broken eggs on day 18

    Help!! Just went to change water and food for my broody and when she got up I seen she has 2 broken eggs!! Today is day 18.... What do I do? I have just left them there for now but will they Survive? Should I put them in The incubator with my other eggs who are at day 16??
  11. BamburghFarms

    Eggs broken open in the coop, no dead chickens, no missing shells, what the???

    Went out to collect eggs today and all the eggs that aren’t under a broody hen were cracked open, shells still there, no hurt chickens... what the??? Did a predator do this?? If so what would it be?? We have a livestock guardian dog, four roosters, two broodys in the coop round the clock and...
  12. Nikole

    Broken eggs

    sooo a week and a half ago my hen had a broken weak shell egg sticking out of her Vent. I got it out successfully and flushed her and kept her inside. Fed her eggs with tums on top for a few days. She successfully laid an egg the other day so I cleaned her up and sent her back outside. She had...
  13. C

    Broody hen sitting 3 days in is down to only 4 eggs, 2 broken shall I start fresh or add more?

    Hello! I’m new to this forum but hope this is the right place to post this question. My broody hen (frizzle Pekin bantam) went broody over a week ago. This is her first time going broody so I let her sit on unfertile eggs for a week just to be sure she’d commit. On Saturday afternoon I gave...
    • Charleesie
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    • broken eggs broken hatching eggs broody broody hen help eating eggs hatching and brooding chicks hatching eggs
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  14. Dr.T

    Of Nest Boxes, Broken Eggs, and Dirtbag Hens

    So I have problems with hens who go into the nest boxes and kick all of the shavings out (I have the plastic entirely enclosed ones that hang on screws on the wall). I have tried the liner sheets with the straw-like stuff on them, they just shove the whole thing out. Then it's left on bare...
  15. Fluffy_Feathers

    Young Layers Pecking Eggs

    I have 6 hens, all are about 20 weeks old. As of today, 5 are laying. 3 of them all started laying just this week so I suspect the last one will be laying soon. But I have been finding eggs that have a hole in them. The hole is just in the shell, i don't think it punctures the membrane. I've...
  16. Hthomas23

    Desperate need of help please!

    Hiya, I could really do with some advise. I have 2 female African Runner Ducks who have been sitting on 5 eggs for around 2 1/2 - 3 weeks . around 5pm today I found one of the eggs in the garden. It looks like a rat has began eating the shell but the duckling was still moving inside I emptied...
  17. chickenonice

    Weak eggshells

    so we've got this older chicken who consistently lays eggs that are so weak they are usually broken by the time we get to them. We've been giving them things like ground eggshells and oyster shells, but so far no results. Should we continue upping their calcium intake, or could there be an...
  18. The Duck Mother

    Think ducks are eating incubating eggs, but why?!

    So one of our ducks, Mama, went broody about a week ago for the second time. She's an Ancona and was a great mother to her first clutch she hatched a few months ago. This time, she was sitting on 8 eggs. A couple days ago, I noticed there was only 7 eggs in the nest. And then today, there was...
    • The Duck Mother
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    • broken eggs broody duck eggs ducks egg eating eggs hatching missing missing eggs
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Ducks
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