Disgusted and Concerned- found this on droppings board

[Tervuren]

Found this while cleaning the coop today. New chicken owner, no clue what this is. I have 5 girls who are 20 weeks old, they all seem active and peppy today, and are eating and drinking. No one is laying yet. The weird thing is maybe just a bit smaller than a pinky finger and has a rubbery consistency.

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you cut it open?

 

[Tervuren]

Can you cut it open?

Are these clear enough?

 

[Eggcessive]

It could possibly be intestinal casing from a certainnstrain of coccidiosis, but it also could be lash egg material from salpingitis. Salpingitis would be rare at their age, but possible. The yellow makes me think lash egg, but here is a picture of the type of Cecal coccidiosis casing:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/-/media/manual/veterinary/images/poucc12_high.jpg?thn=0&sc_lang=en

Here is another picture lower right:
https://www.research-gate.net/publi...nella-infected-chicks-a-Chickens-infected.png

 

[Eggcessive]

Lash eggs from salpingitis can be in many shapes, flesh colored and and yellow cooked egg like inside, but here is a picture of one:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...ved=0CAgQjRxqFwoTCOCMu4iA1_ICFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

 

[Tervuren]

@Eggcessive It looks more like a lash egg to me, even though like you said it would be unusual with them not laying yet. Coccidiosis would be more easily treatable it seems??? So I’d rather it was that tbh. I’ll bag up the grossness and see if I can get a vet appt tomorrow.

 

[Eggcessive]

Hopefully, it was neither, just a weird dropping. Here is some info on lash eggs:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard/

https://www.thepoultrysite.com/disease-guide/salpingitis

 

[Tervuren]

@Eggcessive One of the girls laid her first egg yesterday, could that be related? Haven’t cracked it yet, was planning on doing that tonight, but I appears to be a normal egg from the outside.

 

[Eggcessive]

If it is a lash egg in the earlier picture, and I think it probably is, I would think she is probably not laying. I doubt if it is related to this new egg, but I really don’t know.

 

[Tervuren]

If it is a lash egg in the earlier picture, and I think it probably is, I would think she is probably not laying. I doubt if it is related to this new egg, but I really don’t know.

Just want to say thanks for your advice on this thread, I really appreciate it! I cracked the egg tonight for dinner, and it was totally normal (though adorably tiny), so I agree that it is unlikely to be from the same pullet who had the possible lash egg. I've got a vet appt Thursday morning, so I'll update than. The girls are still acting totally normal, so fingers crossed that I'm catching the issue early enough.