egg advice

  1. T

    Eggs still good after being under broody hen?

    I recently had my parents looking after my flock while I was away for 4 days. During which time one of my girls went broody underneath the nesting boxes. My parents are older and didn't see her since she blended in. Once I got home I did a full flock check and found her. She had 7 eggs under her...
  2. S

    Bad egg?

    One of my hens (who just started laying a few weeks ago) laid this egg. I'm not sure which one, I found it in a nest box along with a few others, as per usual. This egg is blue (my camera didn't quite pick up the coloring) and there was another large blue egg that was normal. The "wrinkled" part...
  3. K

    Whose egg is this?

    have 3 new layers. One cream legbar who’s been laying her true blues for a two weeks now. One French blue copper maran (copper eggs) and one Olive egger. Recently, someone has been laying abominations and someone has laid 2 cream/white eggs. I am very confused, is this my Marans first egg...
  4. KnARanch

    Bad eggs

    Hello, Not sure which hen laid this egg, but I'd like to figure what may have caused this so i can prevent all my hens laying these. I read the article about eggs, and now I'm worried about everything we do or don't do for them :hit Husband thinks this may be from our smallest Sapphire Gem...
  5. GodLovesU

    How to Encourage Nest Box Laying

    I recently bought my chickens a three section nest box. It’s a rollaway, because my chickens keep eating their own eggs. I had put artificial eggs in each box, secured with putty. I cleaned the coop today and put a layer of wood shavings in each nest. I put a thin layer of wood chips in the...
  6. R

    New To Farming

    Hello! I am new to farming and will be raising Spanish White Faced Chickens as they are an endangered species. I am starting with 24 eggs with 2 acres. Any tips would be helpful! I want to make sure they produce organic healthy eggs. Does any one know of a good set up for free range chickens...
  7. S

    Duck, Duck, Help! (please)

    Hoping for wisdom or advice for my girl. I have 4 Pekins, purchased as ducklings in December. Turned out to be 2 male/ 2 female (I realize those are not ideal ratios & have been watching them closely.) 1 female started laying about a month ago. First 2 eggs were wonky, but since then she’s...
    • StarryEyed84
    • Thread
    • egg abnormalities egg advice
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  8. Sljanik

    Goop in Coop?

    Does anyone know what this is? I’ve noticed it for 2 days. It resembles egg whites in the nesting box my girls lay in. They are all acting normal, eating and drinking, and laying either everyday or every other day. They haven’t eaten any eggs, not that I’m aware of. I have 4 girls and they all...
  9. S

    Soft eggs in older (4 yrs) duck

    Hello all - I have a small flock of 3 ducks - two Welsh Harlequin and one White Crested. They all live together and have the same food (Mazuri waterfowl layer) and water (fresh water daily, from the well). During the day, they are in an outdoor run (fully enclosed and predator-proof). At night...
  10. lmadeline146

    Deformed/ consistently strange eggs?

    One of my EEs has been laying eggs with small calcium deposits on the top of the shell for a while now. I know that its normal every once in a while, but after collecting her egg today I’m a bit worried. This is nothing like I’ve seen before compared to the other calcium deposits (if this even...
  11. C

    Sandpaper-Like First Egg

    Hello! We were delighted this morning to find what looks like our first egg. However the shell was incredibly thin, so thin it could easily be crushed if we weren’t careful. The membrane was in tact, but the shell itself felt like sandpaper. We offer free choice oyster shells, have plenty of...
  12. CityslickerHomestead

    Chronic thin shells from only one hen

    Do I just have to force-feed her calcium supplements forever or can I fix this with less instrusive measures? I’ve got a two-year-old cream legbar I’ve had from hatch. She’s always had thin shells even as a pullet, and is the only one of my 20 chickens that lays thin shells, so I feel it’s a...
  13. SalChickenOwner

    Trouble with egg bound chickens

    Hey all, I keep having trouble with egg bound chickens, I've had 3 die this way, 3rd just now. I give them and help them with everything in the book during these times but nothing works. This time I got the egg out quickly and she was recovering fine, she was just slowly gasping for air and had...
  14. K

    Help! Why does my hen keep laying eggs like this?

    One of my hens keeps laying these eggs that have a ripple almost in them. I had another hen who was egg bound and needed assistance and the egg she finally passed had same sort of ripple. Like a pressure indentation of sorts. But I haven’t noticed anything strange about the behavior of the hen...
  15. MagicTheFamiliar

    Tough membrane

    Hi! we have 4 silkie hens, and one polish bantam, one d'uccle and one lavender ameraucana, the last 3 are all the same age. The green Ameraucana eggs all have a membrane so tough it doesn't break on the side of a pan, the shell will break off and I have to stab the membrane with my thumb. They...
  16. TurGoosen

    10 month old African goose laying eggs everywhere

    Hey yall, I have a mated pair of African geese who are both 10 months old. Cheese my goose has built two nests, one she laid four eggs in and was not sitting on, one of my pigs got into the goose pen and ate the eggs. But she laid another clutch of eggs with around 18 eggs that she is sitting...
    • TurGoosen
    • Thread
    • egg advice goose nesting nesting behavior
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Geese
  17. P

    Hatching pekin duck egg day 29

    Hi everyone! Just wanting some advice/ tips I have a pekin duck egg in the incubator at day 29 currently, can see a lot of movement in the egg but not sure if it has internally pipped yet. 38° Celsius and 75% humidity What should I expect in the coming days, and when pipped, when is a good...
  18. C

    Soft shell egg with yolk and tubular something??

    Long storyline, I apologize. About a month ago one of my hens (black sex link) started closing her eye and it began getting cloudy, no longer laying eggs, and was more lethargic than normal. I was treating the flock with tylosin (just in case) and treating her with that plus terramycin. The...
  19. Lhynes1478

    Is this egg dead?

    My broody grabbed eggs while I was on vacation. The ones that I knew went in on 1/4/25 hatched in the past two days. There are 3 that look completely dark, but not seeing any movement. I don’t know what day she grabbed these so I don’t know when to expect them. I also can’t really see any veins...
  20. Brianna245

    Is this a fertilized “”bullseye” on the yolk?

    I’ve been keeping an eye on if my almost six month old rooster has been successful in fertilizing the eggs, he’s been “active” but still on the young side. Here is an hour old egg I have cracked open, looks like a bullseye to me, but I’m not very experienced having a rooster yet, and getting...
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