Duck with whiteish yellow thing hanging from bottom

[crazyducklady03]

Hi, I’m not sure if this is an emergency but it has me freaked out, I walked down to my duck coop and my female has this hanging from her back end. Any advice on what this may be? It seems like she has pooped this out.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Any advice on what this may be?

Welcome to BYC!

A membrane of an incomplete (shell-less) egg is the most likely.. Possibly just a hiccup, if diet is known and sufficient. Not super uncommon in new or returning layers.

Pull it out.. or when it passes completely grab it and cut into it to make sure there is no "cooked egg" looking contents.. regular egg contents is fine.. but cooked whites looking is indicative of an infection.

The following link is about chicken eggs.. so the timing won't be exactly the same but the approximation of SOME things that can go awry will be similar, with a cool video on how eggs are formed..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/

What is her age and diet including treats and supplements? Has she been laying eggs already?

It's not currently an emergency.. but if she has more softees that won't or don't pass it could become one.

 

[crazyducklady03]

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Welcome to BYC!

A membrane of an incomplete (shell-less) egg is the most likely.. Possibly just a hiccup, if diet is known and sufficient. Not super uncommon in new or returning layers.

Pull it out.. or when it passes completely grab it and cut into it to make sure there is no "cooked egg" looking contents.. regular egg contents is fine.. but cooked whites looking is indicative of an infection.

The following link is about chicken eggs.. so the timing won't be exactly the same but the approximation of SOME things that can go awry will be similar, with a cool video on how eggs are formed..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/

What is her age and diet including treats and supplements? Has she been laying eggs already?

It's not currently an emergency.. but if she has more softees that won't or don't pass it could become one.

Hey! Thank you for your reply! She is around a year and a half and lays almost daily. We have her on Purina duck feed and added flock party egg maker crumbles to her diet around a week ago but this is the first time this has happened to her so I was completely lost as to what it is or what to do. We also occasionally give her flock party duck discs or the different varieties of meal worm mixtures as treats.