Hey neighbor!
Poopy eggs comes from poopy feet. What are they walking through to get to the nesting boxes? The best way to keep clean eggs is to keep a clean and dry coop and run as well as making sure they aren't sleeping in the nesting boxes. But inevitably you will get some dirty eggs. You just can't teach the ladies to watch where they're pooping and stepping. And sometimes, especially in wet weather, I think they like to play a game of football with an egg.
I get a bloody egg every now and again. Sometimes just a drop, and sometimes a pretty good smear. Pretty much exclusively from my Welsummers. All my chickens are hatchery birds and I think of them all, my Welsummers were never very strong. They've never been very good layers and their eggs also get the most blood/meat specks. While I average 4-5 eggs/day from my Wyandottes, I'm lucky to get 3 from my Welsummers. I think I can only count 2 days where I got an egg from all of them. My EEs also laid mostly one a day. One day, one of them started acting funny, pacing the pen, the next day lethargic so I put her in the hospital pen and she was dead by morning. I started treating the flock for Cocci followed by worms since I had recently added to the flock even though I didn't see any other signs. One other Welsummer hen started to act lethargic but snapped out of it by the next day. At the same time, I also had one of them go broody, which I broke while medicating. I'm still only getting 2 or 3 eggs from them but haven't seen a bloody one in a while.
Poopy eggs comes from poopy feet. What are they walking through to get to the nesting boxes? The best way to keep clean eggs is to keep a clean and dry coop and run as well as making sure they aren't sleeping in the nesting boxes. But inevitably you will get some dirty eggs. You just can't teach the ladies to watch where they're pooping and stepping. And sometimes, especially in wet weather, I think they like to play a game of football with an egg.
I get a bloody egg every now and again. Sometimes just a drop, and sometimes a pretty good smear. Pretty much exclusively from my Welsummers. All my chickens are hatchery birds and I think of them all, my Welsummers were never very strong. They've never been very good layers and their eggs also get the most blood/meat specks. While I average 4-5 eggs/day from my Wyandottes, I'm lucky to get 3 from my Welsummers. I think I can only count 2 days where I got an egg from all of them. My EEs also laid mostly one a day. One day, one of them started acting funny, pacing the pen, the next day lethargic so I put her in the hospital pen and she was dead by morning. I started treating the flock for Cocci followed by worms since I had recently added to the flock even though I didn't see any other signs. One other Welsummer hen started to act lethargic but snapped out of it by the next day. At the same time, I also had one of them go broody, which I broke while medicating. I'm still only getting 2 or 3 eggs from them but haven't seen a bloody one in a while.
