- Aug 26, 2011
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Hello everyone! First post here and have a question. Yesterday I found on the carport a bloody yolk stretched out across the concrete. There was no yellow to it just the clear jell. I have 24 hens and no rooster. The majority of them were raised from dibbies but I bought 4 large ones and was told they were a last years chickens about three weeks after I got the chicks. One of the older chickens has been in a molt for about 2 monthes and looks like its been plucked the others are fairly well feathered. I think I was sold some old chickens. When we got them they laid 3 to 4 eggs per day of the 4 chickens that were able. When I got rid of the rooster they stopped laying down to maybe 1-2 eggs per day if that. Thats the history of the laying. Now I find the bloody mess in the carport and was wondering what could have caused it. My quess is a shell has broken inside one of the chickens and cut it up but I dont know which one. All the chicken are going about business as usual pecking and pooping. While I watched them out in the yard a bunch of them were dust bathing I noticed the plucked hen laying on her side with her wings stretched out in the heat of the sun like she was covering her self while all the other hens lay in the shade. I thought it was an odd place for her to be so when I went to make sure she was ok she jumped up and carried on like they always do. Any idea what's going on with the bloody yolk? Thats about all the observation I can remember. Doeboy