egg problems

Newly laid eggs keep coming up with holes in them, and I’m worried! I had a rat problem due to a hole in my duck’s coop and I am thinking maybe they found another way in again? The holes all are the same shape each time. I’m just hoping it isn’t another duck poking holes. The yolk doesn’t seem...

Who Can Solve This Mystery? The Plot: I have 8 hens, they're 7 mos old. Four RIR, 3 Barred Rock, 1 Delaware. Average is 7 eggs per day and they lay before noon. One occasionally prefers afternoon laying, and one doesn't lay every day. The 4 RIRs lay perfectly formed, large brown eggs. The 3...

I walked into the coop and found a mystery egg in the nesting box (first picture) I know it came from our whiting true green. The next day, she laid a very small egg. When I cracked it, I found this (second pic- full disclosure, I was about to crack it into a pan but when I saw what was inside I...

HELP! My chickens are slowing/stopping egg production at less than A YEAR old!! Please help! My chickens egg production was really great (I have four hens and we were getting 4 eggs a day) until a couple of weeks ago when we started getting 0-2 eggs a day. I thought it might be a calcium...

This is the 2nd time we have had this hens egg laid with a crack that looks like it was sealed over before she laid it. Just wondering if this is something I should be concerned about or if I should supplement her with anything? They have free feed oyster shell available all the time. Any...

Hello everyone, One of our younger hens (6mo) has been laying for about a month, and is routinely laying double-yolk eggs. As of now, about 75% of her eggs have been doubles, and 25% have been singles. There was one instance where she laid a triple-yolker. We have had chickens for over four...

Hello, thanks to anyone who may help me figure this out. The issue is with a 5-month-old Austra White pullet. I have caught her several times lay a very soft-shelled egg in the middle of the coop floor; which promptly gets eaten. This has happened in the morning and in the evening. She is on a...

Hi all! My sweet hen has been having recurring problems with laying eggs and our vet recommended that she get a Salpingectomy(chicken hysterectomy). Unfortunately I don’t have the money($3500) to get this surgery for her right now:( I am posting on here because I wonder if maybe someone has had...

Hello fellow feather-loving friends! Every since my ducks were laying-age, my family has enjoyed a VERY steady supply of duck eggs. My Pekins being the best layers, providing 1 egg every day (only taking a 5 day break a month). As of the first week of August 2019, my ducks began molting. There...

Hi there, For about a month or so now one of my chickens has been laying these really oddly shaped eggs. I wonder if they are slab-side eggs? They are flat on one side (sorry for all the photos but tying to really show the odd shapes!) and where you can see the lighter spot has been (not this...

Hi all! My first chickens are close to 9 months old now, and one of my hens has consistently been laying slab eggs. She is usually a daily layer, but for the past 2-3 weeks she has seemed to be skipping laying on some days and then laying 2 eggs the next day. I've gotten somewhere between 6 and...

I tried googling this problem but nothing came up and now I'm looking to you guys for help. One of my girls layed an odd looking egg. It has blue spots and a few chips in it. Has anybody seen this problem before?

Today I got an egg I have never seen before. Some of my hens are molting and I believe this must have been laid by one who just came out of molt. If anyone could tell me what the problem might be, I would greatly appreciate it!

Hi everyone: I have an 11 year old hen, part leghorn, who in her day laid a many eggs. In her old age she stopped laying egg which I understand. However, she recently (like two days ago) starting laying eggs again, going in the nest box. The first egg was long and thin and oddly shaped. The...

Does anyone know what these deposits are on my Blue Copper Marran egg? Just started today and they scratch off like little eggs. At first I thought they were calcium deposits...but they scratch off easily. None on the eggs of the other chickens in the same box. Any ideas??

hey, y’all! Brand new chicken Mama here. My husband and I bought a new house in South Carolina and inherited chickens with the purchase of the house. For the first few weeks, we were getting 1-3 eggs per day from four hens. We decided to expand our flock and add four new chickens. We waited...

i was just wondering how long are freshly layed chicken eggs are good for, how to store them, and how do I properly clean them?

Hi there, this is my first time posting, but I've used lots of advice from the forums so far - so firstly, thank you for that! So, we got our first chickens on 9th June aged 37 weeks - 2 Brahmas and 2 Buff Orps. At the time we got them, 1 of the Brahmas was laying, and 1 of the BOs was laying -...

I have recently re-homed the rooster of my 7 hen flock. He had been an all around miserable jerk to both my family and the hens. Offenses include attacking my mother and little sister on sight, relentlessly chasing hens to mount them, and stripping the backs and heads of almost all of the girls...

I have around 8 duck eggs being incubated by a hen and they are on day 28 and i have noticed yellow and grey marks appearing om the inside of 2 of them, are they dead???? Do they need rescued???!? I will post pictures in a short while.