Hello Chicken People,
I’ve posted about my egg shell problems before, but after switching to mostly Layer Pellets (as opposed to only All Flock with oyster shell/crushed egg shells available), AND trying calcium tablets as a supplement, my Hattie is now laying eggs without any shell at all (as...
Dorothy, an 11 month old white and black chicken that lays light azure blue eggs (both pictured), has laid plenty of double yolkers... But at least two have had a noticeable delineation in the shell where it's like her body added on a caboose to the egg to make even more room than usual! (See...
Hello everyone! My girls started laying last week. I am getting about two eggs a day since most of them are not ready just yet, but I just found this egg from a new hen (her first egg) outside the nesting box. It’s bigger than the ones the Sussex have been giving me, but it’s covered in spots...
Hi, I have an egg that internally pipped over 48 hours ago. After 24 hours it still hadn't externally pipped so I poked a small hole through the air cell and put it back in the bator. 24 hours later there was no progress and I could no longer hear it peeping. I began chipping away the shell and...
Hi all! One of my girls laid what appears to be 2 soft-shelled eggs at once into their poop hammock (I say it's one chicken because I collected 5 normal eggs and I've got 6 girls total). Everyone laid yesterday and they were perfectly normal. They get layer feed that has oyster shell in it and I...
So I have an egg that pipped yesterday and has now started zipping. I wasn't home when it started zipping but I came home to it lying in a pool of yellow liquid. It's still alive, I can see it breathing. Anyone know what happened?
This morning I went out to check on the coop and looked inside and just below the roosting bar I found this egg in the shavings below. Like it dropped out overnight. It appears to be just the membrane and no shell along with another much smaller start to an egg. Is this cause for concern? They...
Hi, I have looked through the forum and saw some similar posts about soft-shelled eggs, but most were about young chickens or those with health issues. One of my Lakeshore Eggers has started laying soft-shelled eggs for the past several weeks and I don't know why! We have only had a couple of...
. I have four young hen (ducks) in my flock and I was wondering if this is a fairy egg or the normal size of the breeds egg it also had a weird dark spot on it. The photo is compared to my other older layers eggs.
the four new ones are:
A Rouen, black Swedish, Ancona , and Pekin.
My chicken laid this small soft shelled egg, then laid a normal egg the next day, and next thing she lays is this monstrosity! She was having issues all day laying it then finally shot this out with an audible squelch
this is the first small softshell one ^
and then this is the weird one. This...
Hi all!
I have an EE thats 21 weeks old that has been laying be a little over 2 weeks. Today when I went to collect eggs I found this strange small malformed one, that almost appears bluish in color? The EE that has been laying has consistently laid medium sized olive green eggs. This was the...
One of my new hens (Buff Brahma) laid a very strange egg. It is a white shell with half of a brown shell over it. It might be her first egg, I don’t know, but the Brahma’s we have lay brown eggs…have you ever heard of this? Please see the pictures. It looks as if part of the brown shell broke...
My silkie laid this freaky lil thing can anybody tell me what it is please, does she need to see a vet? The dimples are where I poked it when I first went to pick it up. Is it a fart egg combined with a soft shelled egg?
Hi all,
I have a 2.5 year old isa brown that will still lay 5 days a week. About once a week she will lay what I call a rubber egg. It will usually crack inside and she will have the white first followed by the collapsed egg shell. Is this a normal progression for her breed of bird? Also, the...
Hi! My hens have all been doing wonderfully, and all are now producing!
The problem is that one of them, Archimedes I think (the latest to produce), has laid some unusual eggs.
One was entirely shell-less, just yolk on the ground. The other three had a very soft, weak membrane instead of a...
Anyone know what these two dark spots are inside of my egg, I Have 3 and this is the only one with them. My Apologies if it’s normal, this is my first time incubating eggs ever and I couldn’t find anything online about this. Thank you. EDIT: it kinda looks like they moved together idk
Hey y’all,
I have two older hens who have slowed their egg production after I switched to grower feed to accommodate for the new, younger birds in the flock. I know this is normal, but I haven’t seen an increase after switching the food back.
My younger hens are egg laying age now so we are...
Has anyone seen an egg like this? We have no roosters all hens and this was our first lay from this one. Still trying to figure out which hen it came from. It’s the bottom reddish brown egg.
Hi, this is my first post here but I was candling my Australorp eggs today and I noticed two distinct spots on one of the eggs. They're both moving and seem fine for now but I know the chances of survival are slim. The egg isn't any bigger than the other eggs so I don't think it's a double yolk...
Hello, i need some help with a chicken in a particular situation.
I have a common layer hen that i found months ago, she appeared on my porch, was underweight, had a scar on her stomach and an infection in her oviduct which she was treated for until she stopped laying lash eggs and started...