Egg Bound Hen *Update* The Egg Passed, Very Strange!

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Hi Jody,

Thank you for your advice and kind words. i posted last night before i saw your note. i have read that a chicken only lays an egg once a day, and that was my experience in the past (last time i had chickens was 20 years ago, so i'm a reborn newbie). i did see somewhere on this forum (maybe it was the pictures of first eggs section) a woman whose hen spit out two weird eggs her first time. Penny's eggs came almost exactly 12 hours apart. i am sure it was her, as her only friend is only 14 weeks old, and these eggs were plopped directly under where Penny roosts. (i keep my 8-week-old silkies cooped seperately.)

i just let them out into the run and Penny seems fine. No egg this morning, but it's still early. We've just come down off a bad heat spell that lasted almost a month, and i figured that was why Penny (now at 22 weeks) had not laid yet. Maybe she is now making up for lost time? i'm going to keep the appointment i have today just so i can get to know this new vet and establish a relationship. Wouldn't hurt for Penny to get a six-month check-up either.

Thanks again for your concern. It was a great comfort yesterday to be able to reach out for help when we were so frightened. i can't believe how much i love this chicken.

Colleen

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Okay, one more thing. Here she is hiding with her head in my arm pit when she didn't feel good yesterday. She hadn't done this since she was a kid.

 

[SpottedCrow]

I'm so glad that she passed the other egg.
These things can happen with a new layer.

 

[PeiTheCelt]

I'm so glad that she passed it, and she is BEAUTIFUL! Does she have some blue almost-lacing or is that just from the light or something? That buff and blue combination that it looks like on my screen is really neat!