lash egg

  1. RUNuts

    Graphic - Lethargic Leghorn Lash Egg

    <Graphic Warning> Almost 2 year old Leghorn has been slowly getting worse. Poopy butt. Meaning nasty, unkempt, smelly runny diarrhea hanging on the feathers. Today was green. Green, I've found, is the warning sign that bad things are happening. Palpation of the abdomen showed a large...
  2. ChickenMama308

    Soft shelled eggs. Lash material? Reproductive illness? Ascites?

    Aloha everyone! My sweet 2.5 year old RIR hen, Oia, had a swollen abdomen for at least a couple months that had her having soft poops, eating less, and loss of muscle mass. Her sister died in November from reproductive illness :( Oia seemed to be getting more unwell as her abdomen enlarged, and...
  3. hugitnotnugget

    Lash egg and green poop

    I found two lash eggs about a month ago. My vet thought it was just from our older hen not digesting well. A couple days ago my hen who was born in the spring was acting tired and wouldn’t eat. I made a previous post about both of these. She is eating and drinking and acting fine but I found...
  4. D

    How to remove lash eggs?

    Hello all, Does anyone have any experience or solitions in 'unblocking a duck' In another post i describe how we lost our Peach just today (white peking duck) Long story short, she had 5 lash eggs blocking her. The only way i know of would be surgery. In Australia we are looking at around $1500...
  5. D

    Loosing weight, withdrawn, unsocial, wants to sleep all day, sticky eye lids, no interest in food

    Hello all, First of all, this thread isnt asking for help. Im here to help anyone who has a duck with similar symptoms. Peach the white Peking Duck was approx 10 months old when she started loosing weight and excreting bright green poop. I had read somewhere on here that it was bad. Peach was a...
  6. L

    *Warning gross picture* Help! What is this?

    My hen has been acting off for the last 4 days. She is 6 months and has never layed a normal egg just soft/no shell every other day. She has oyster shell and is on a crushed calcium supplement. I gave her a Epsom salt bath yesterday and it did nothing. I gave her another one and THIS CAME OUT...
  7. H

    1 of my chickens have died and the next is looking ill. Please Help

    Thank you for reading, Unfortunately one of our hens died almost a month ago, she was a hybrid about 3 and a half years old. Her comb was very pale and she would just stand with her eyes closed not joining in with the other chickens and not eating or drinking. Another one of our hens of the...
  8. C

    Spay?

    Has anyone had to spay their ducks? I need an idea of what it will cost and entail while I wait for a quote from a few hospitals.
  9. Leihamarie

    Lash egg???

    Hi all, My 1.5 year old EE who has been laying thin-shelled eggs (but otherwise in excellent health) started walking oddly, tail pumping about a week and a half ago. Noticed it right away, took her inside and gave her an epsom soak + 2tsp olive oil and she popped out a small rubber egg. had...
  10. J

    Eating chickens with a Lash

    I have 24 hens in my flock and only get about 4 to 6 eggs a day. 10 of the birds joined our flock this spring and summer. We decided to cull the two 1/2 year old Rhode Island Reds and Black Astralopes. One of each of the birds had these fatty like globs inside that I believe are Lashes...and...
  11. ArtemisKat

    Salpingitis Lash egg, what can I do?

    Long-time reader, first time posting. Background: I own 5 chickens, three of them are five years old (barred rock, delaware, and americana) , and two of them are three years old (both rhode island red). They have a large coop and fully fenced area that's nearly as large as my bedroom. Big...
  12. B

    lash egg still attached to hen

    One of my hens was acting poorly(listless not eating much etc). I noticed her butt was poopy so I bathed her . What i found was a small egg shaped object that is attached by a strand of tissue inside her vent. This is a first for me.. It could be a lash egg but I don't know whether I should...
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