Egg with no shell

[Wyorp Rock]

Probably just a lash egg, but it sure look convincingly like a chicken fetus. Probably over-active imagination, but certainly a lot of flesh to come out of a living chicken.

Lash eggs can come in various colors, shapes and sizes. It's actually not flesh, it is an accumulation of infection wrapped up in layers of pus. Quite odd looking stuff. Salpingitis, if caught very early can sometimes be treated short term with antibiotics. Do you have a vet?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Umm what’s this? Did I miss something?

LOL I have no idea where that thing came from! I wonder if someone posted it to the wrong thread.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Couldn't figure that one out either ....

 

[chickengeorgeto]

View attachment 1388495 I have an americauna hen that’s a little over a year old & is very inconsistent at laying. Her eggs are very small & this past weekend, she laid an egg without the shell. I’m assuming it’s a genetic defect. She is from a hatchery & the other female I got the same time as her “her sister” is the total opposite. She is very consistent at laying large green/blue eggs. Any advice would help. Thank in advance

It could be a shell gland defect since she is over a year old. Some hens just seem to have problems. Observe your flock to see if she is under any added stress, see that she is eating/drinking (if being kept from food add feed stations). Offer oyster shell free choice.
It's never a bad idea to take some poop samples to your vet to rule out worms, but generally malformed eggs and inconsistent laying is a reproductive problem.
Here's more information about egg issues:
http://www.yellowbirchhobbyfarm.com/weird-eggs-101-the-oddities-explained/
http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/common-egg-quality-problems

Odd or misshapen eggs are often the result of damage caused to the shell gland or other parts of a hen's reproductive tract by diseases like Infectious Bronchitis. If this is the case with your hen then her laying may never improve.

 

[Stina5]

Here’s another odd thing I found a couple months back...the very small dirty green egg. Same color as my americauna eggs.

 

[aart]

Here’s another odd thing I found a couple months back...the very small dirty green egg. Same color as my americauna eggs.

Great pics.
I'd guess that's a ...
Fairy, fart, wind, rooster eggs are usually from a tiny piece of tissue breaking loose from the reproductive tract, or an immature ova(yolk) and the body forms an egg around it. Color can be darker than 'normal' as the pigment coating released has to cover a much smaller area so is thicker. Can happen with any age layer, but more common with new or older layers.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Here’s another odd thing I found a couple months back...the very small dirty green egg. Same color as my americauna eggs.

Good photos!
That "tissue" or "foreign" object in the albumen looks like the beginnings of Salpingitis to me. I could very well be wrong, but a lot of times fairy eggs are laid in an attempt to "capture" material or pieces of matter that don't belong.


Have you ever had any respiratory illness in your flock? Sneezing, coughing, water eyes, mucous, etc.?

 

[Stina5]

She actually had the pox virus when she was about 5 months old. Which puzzled me because she is from a mainland hatchery, so she was supposed to be vaccinated.

Good photos!
That "tissue" or "foreign" object in the albumen looks like the beginnings of Salpingitis to me. I could very well be wrong, but a lot of times fairy eggs are laid in an attempt to "capture" material or pieces of matter that don't belong.


Have you ever had any respiratory illness in your flock? Sneezing, coughing, water eyes, mucous, etc.?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She actually had the pox virus when she was about 5 months old. Which puzzled me because she is from a mainland hatchery, so she was supposed to be vaccinated.

When you ordered your chicks, did you specifically ask and pay for the fowl pox vaccine? Fowl Pox is usually spread by mosquitoes. A vaccine may not always "take" and birds can still get lesions/scabs and become sick.

There are 2 forms of Fowl Pox - Wet and Dry. Which form did your girl have? Dry is scabs on the wattles/face/comb and Wet or Diphtheritic form also affects the mucous membranes/throat/beak.

 

[Stina5]

Dry form. I separated her from the rest of the chickens for about 2 weeks till she looked healthy again. Around that same time a whole bunch of wild chickens running around the neighborhood started dropping like flies & then my girl got it & I learned about the seriousness of fowl pox virus... we had honestly thought someone was poisoning the poor chickens but nope, it was those darn mosquitos.

When you ordered your chicks, did you specifically ask and pay for the fowl pox vaccine? Fowl Pox is usually spread by mosquitoes. A vaccine may not always "take" and birds can still get lesions/scabs and become sick.

There are 2 forms of Fowl Pox - Wet and Dry. Which form did your girl have? Dry is scabs on the wattles/face/comb and Wet or Diphtheritic form also affects the mucous membranes/throat/beak.