Can an eggbound chicken's egg become abscessed with no symptoms?

[logansmommy7]

I have a chicken who lays very large eggs and I haven't had one (a large egg-usually a double yolker) in the last week or so. Well, today I went out to let the chickens out and looked in the nest to find a very nasty scene. There was a chicken sitting in there but there was also a bloody pile with what looked like an egg shell (very soft and nasty) attached. We initially thought the chicken had a prolapsed vent but when we tried to get her out of the nest she ran off and we realized it wasn't that. Can an egg become abscessed and then finally pass and the chicken not have any symptoms? I don't have any chickens that I would suspect infection or anything like that because they are all happy and eating, etc, etc... Anybody ever experience this? I would have taken a picture but I have a pretty weak stomach and getting it out of there was all I could do...

 

[Dar]

If the red mass was still attached I would assume it may be that the chicken strained and pushed her intestines out. can you catch her and take a closer look? Try to gently push in what ever is hanging out? Make sure it is clean before pushing it back in, a warm bath may help calm her before like a "sitz" bath for a chicken

 

[logansmommy7]

Nothing was actually hanging out and the chicken (all of my chickens) are acting fine. It looks like an egg that rotted on the inside, maybe she was eggbound and the egg decomposed (Gross I know), there was definitely a soft egg shell andn when we picked it up the yolk and white came out, this was along with other bloody stuff...YUCK Just wondering if this has ever happened to anyone else before and why?

 

[logansmommy7]

Anyone out there ever see anything like this??

 

[logansmommy7]

Bump=anyone?