soft egg

Hi everyone! I’ve been reading on here for the past few years as a fledgling duck and chicken owner. I have learned a lot, and wanted to share a weird situation I had come up recently. I have a welsh harlequin duck who is three years old, who has had thin walled or soft eggs for as long as I...

We’ve recently discovered two soft eggs, two days in a row. Last week we noticed an egg that looked like it had a hard time coming out. We have three hens, they are exactly two years old. They’ve been laying through the winter 2 or 3 eggs a day total. Feeding them layer feed, scratch grain...

Hi, fellow chicken keepers. I’m hoping for some advice about next steps after my first loss. Grit, my 2-year old olive egger, died suddenly 3 days ago while I was out of town. When my pet sitter went out just after dark to lock up the coop, she found Grit lying on her side in the run, dead but...

I have an almost 1 year old ameraucana (Peach) that has laid three soft shelled eggs (a little bit of shell development) in the middle of the night. I found one last Tuesday (3/21) morning under the roosts, and that egg was supposed to be laid around 12 pm Tuesday, so it was laid hours early. I...

So one of our hens Goldilocks was acting strange last night. Looking on our cams we saw she was sleeping on the ground which she’s never done before. She was also up on and off until approx midnight. I have a vid of her trying to possibly pass an egg (and failing) from last night though I don’t...

I went to check for eggs and disturbed my barred rock. When she was done I noticed a stringy thing hanging from her vent and she was struggling to get it out so I put on a glove and helped her. Yesterday she laid an egg with a thin shell and blood inside not just a speck but streaks throughout...

I saw a similar thread, but wanted to share that one of my girls laid TWO soft-shelled eggs today. Both had yolks. I thought she was egg bound this morning, she was really straining and finally an egg with a weak shell came out. She still didn't seem like herself, and I found her in the nesting...

Hello! I've been having some issues w/my laying hens. They are almost two years old -- will be in May. I have lost two hens so far in the past month. The first one occurred while we were out of town for a weekend, so I didn't get to see the "buildup." All I know is that the day we got home...

My female duck has been laying soft shell eggs for about a month now after a really cold winter. It's finally been warm for a steady 2 weeks though and when nothing changed I've began to get concerned. It is her first mating season since I added a male to my flock, however she doesn't seem to be...

As I was doing my morning chores, i noticed some chickens eating egg off of the floor below where they roost. I went to check it out and saw that it wasn't just egg but also some thing that looked like its intestines it also had worms in it. I went to check it out and look at the chickens who...

The soft egg in the picture is on the compost heap. One of my Burford Browns has been laying a small collection of strange eggs this week. She's still a pullet and it's winter here in England though she hasn't gone through a molt that ive noticed and im with them quite a lot. Her eyes have...

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...

One of my olive egger chickens (~18 weeks) laid 2 very soft-shelled eggs. what do I do/ how do I fix this and prevent it in the future. The white's and yoke of the egg look normal.

I’ve had some problems with egg quality in my flock recently, and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. First, one of my ameraucanas started laying eggs with lots of calcium deposits on top a few months ago (I haven’t actually seen anyone lay, but I’m 99% sure it’s her). She’s...

I have an 11 month old olive Egger who hadn’t laid in 2 days and then l found 3 soft shell eggs in the poop hammock from overnight. She’s acting fine, eating drinking etc. Historically she’s a good layer. She was molting in one area in Feb and stopped laying but started laying end of...

Hey guys, This is my first post and I have a question/concern with one of my hens. She has had an issue of laying a soft egg that doesn't fully come out twice now. Meaning the soft shell(which is squishy, you can move/mold it without it cracking) gets stuck and hangs out of her vent? Has...

Hello everyone, My Rosie was helped 2 weeks ago...You can read about it by clicking --> here My Rosie was fine laying and an empty crop, up until Saturday morning.... That morning she had an impacted crop and was acting slow. So, I automatically restricted her free ranging, gave her olive oil...

Hello fellow chicken people! I have 3 19 week old Rhode island reds that I have been waiting to lay. I just switched them to dumor organic layer feed last week. They have been really noisy, squatting when I go to pet them, and their combs popped and got super bright so for the past 2 weeks I've...

One of my chickens was accidentally left with no water on a hot day for a couple hours. We discovered her and we got her in a wet shaded dirt right away. We have her water through a dropper and put wet cloths on her. We then brought her inside and lined a laundry basket with a moist towel with...

Could this be vent gleet ? We removed her from the flock last night because she just keeps losing feathers and has hardly any feathers near her vent and it’s very red there too. She has very poopy feathers around there too, we trimmed those feathers with scissors last night. There’s nothing...