an egg broke inside my silkie hen!

[aart]

If you can feel shell bits near the vent then you need to find the opening and fish them out. The gizzard *is* in the abdomen on their left side.

But gizzard is in front of legs?
I assume she was feeling farther back?

 

[casportpony]

But gizzard is in front of legs?
I assume she was feeling farther back?

Most diagrams show it like that, but it's actually here:

 

[BigBlueHen53]

@casportpony: "Here" is not showing up for me. I will check back Sunday in case it's just not downloading for me. It's getting to be that time of day, lol. Joys of living in the wilderness ... which I truly love!

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony: "Here" is not showing up for me. I will check back Sunday in case it's just not downloading for me. It's getting to be that time of day, lol. Joys of living in the wilderness ... which I truly love!

Can you do a screenshot?

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

If you can feel shell bits near the vent then you need to find the opening and fish them out. The gizzard *is* in the abdomen on their left side.

I can’t find them.. I’ve tried 6 times, but they are still too far down for me to touch except through tissue.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

I feel the shells (from the outside) right in the middle of the gizzard and tail, to right at the pubic bones

 

[Cryss]

Does this help? To me it looks like the oviduct and ovaries are closer to the tail and back above the intestines with the gizzard low in the abdomen in front of (or maybe between?) the legs. Wouldn't there be another opening above the cloaca hidden behind the upper flap of the cloaca and leading to the oviduct? This is a good opportunity (for me for sure) to learn more chicken anatomy especially since I have never processed a bird.

 

[aart]

Does this help?

I thought I had posted that..and @casportpony corrected me ... but now I don't see it.

 

[Cryss]

I thought I had posted that..and @casportpony corrected me ... but now I don't see it.

Oh, if you did then I missed it. Sorry.

So am I right about the oviduct behind the flap thing? I need an image with a frontal and a rear view to determine organs being right or left. Here it looks like you'd be probing up not down to abdomen to find the oviduct.

 

[glassdragonfly]