Bizarre egg- possibly a piece of intestine? Tail??

[Cecisflock]

Can anyone help me figure out why one of my girls is laying like this? This is the SECOND egg like this in 2 weeks. Same hen as well.

 

[Cecisflock]

@rosemarythyme any thoughts?

 

[primatologica]

One of my girls laid a single egg like this last fall, about two months after she started laying. Is yours new to laying? For mine, I changed the brand of oyster shell I provided and never saw an egg like that again (I don't know that the weird egg was related to calcium but I did realize this chicken wasn't eating the shell provided).

 

[rosemarythyme]

Do you still have the contents of this egg? At first I was thinking it's just some excess membrane that didn't quite end up where it should be, but a little concerned about the fleshy looking bit. If you do still have it, slice it open and see what it looks like inside - if it's similar to the membrane inside the egg, I wouldn't worry about it unless this becomes a regular thing. If it's thick, fleshy folds inside, then that could possibly be lash egg material.

 

[Cecisflock]

One of my girls laid a single egg like this last fall, about two months after she started laying. Is yours new to laying? For mine, I changed the brand of oyster shell I provided and never saw an egg like that again (I don't know that the weird egg was related to calcium but I did realize this chicken wasn't eating the shell provided).

She is not new to laying, she is about 3.

Do you still have the contents of this egg? At first I was thinking it's just some excess membrane that didn't quite end up where it should be, but a little concerned about the fleshy looking bit. If you do still have it, slice it open and see what it looks like inside - if it's similar to the membrane inside the egg, I wouldn't worry about it unless this becomes a regular thing. If it's thick, fleshy folds inside, then that could possibly be lash egg material.

I don’t have the contents anymore but it didn’t really feel like the membrane inside the egg. it felt sort of like a piece of raw meat, if that makes sense.

 

[Cecisflock]

She prefers crushed egg shell over oyster shell, but we sell most of our eggs and don’t have access to them often.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I don’t have the contents anymore but it didn’t really feel like the membrane inside the egg. it felt sort of like a piece of raw meat, if that makes sense.

Hopefully it's a one off. IF you get anything similar in the future, do cut it open and look for layers of fleshy material. Best to take a photo so we can confirm your findings.

 

[Cecisflock]

Well, one of my girls (Iris) passed away tonight. she was the one i suspected to have layed the funny egg. She had green poop this morning and was gone when i went to check on them this afternoon (5). Maybe it was an internal thing and this was the warning sign?

 

[Cecisflock]

My flock is also infected with viral coryza that cannot be technically cured, so she could have just finally succumbed to her illness.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Sorry to hear about Iris' passing, if that was her egg then yes it's possible that it was a sign of something wrong internally.