Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Is this the only strange one that you have found? How strong is the shell? Maybe she is just adding too much calcium this time?

And not enough color. Look how dark her earlier one was.
I haven’t cracked it yet. I feel like it might be thin but that may not be the case.
She has maybe laid one other weird one - which would have been her first egg - but I am not sure because I just happened to find part of a shell under their roost.

 

[lightm]

Two fake chickens and two real chickens
(Light and Honey having a stare down)

 

[lightm]

Mugs a day late
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Two plus two still counts as a twofer right? Despite the very, very long period of brooding Brownie still looks pretty good to me. She has yet to decide to start laying eggs again though, I miss her gorgeous eggs!
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Wow, Brownie has Gorgeous feathers!!!

 

[lightm]

And not enough color. Look how dark her earlier one was.
I haven’t cracked it yet. I feel like it might be thin but that may not be the case.
She has maybe laid one other weird one - which would have been her first egg - but I am not sure because I just happened to find part of a shell under their roost.

Ok. I would worry after I crack it then!!

Even thin-ish, still not time to worry yet. Give it a month as RM said.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

I call pigeons city chickens!

Then this is a Seagull?
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Seacock silly.

Is that anything like a shuttlecock?
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No that's a super uncooked rotisserie chicken! This is a murderus sea chicken, did they not teach you anything I silence class
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Hey look, it’s Tina from high school!

I haven't come across this oil for them. I'm hoping these will be helpful


I also hope they don't start reggae party's while I want to sleep. Kids today huh
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Not my Tina

So, is this a comedy thread now?
Let's get straight to the point: Grandma is very serious about this. She doesn't care about funny business anymore. She has grown out of it. Old chickens right... wait...

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Oh crud, Twofer Tuesday. Almost forgot.

 

[notabitail]

So, is this a comedy thread now?
Let's get straight to the point: Grandma is very serious about this. She doesn't care about funny business anymore. She has grown out of it. Old chickens right... wait...
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So butt? This thread can be funny! Why not?

 

[GregnLety]

Reassurance needed
I know I shouldn’t worry so much. I know that new egg layers take a while to get into their groove and that mistakes happen.
But I still need you to reassure me.
This is what Sylvie laid.
It is small - about 1.5oz - like two others she has laid. But it is pale brown (like the shell I found under the roost) unlike the dark brown she laid before.
Also it is strangely shaped and covered with bumps.
I am mostly sure it is Sylvie. It could be Piglet though hers are supposed to be blue and I think she is just checking things out still.
It is only the 3rd or 4th egg Sylvie has laid. There is some ambiguity about the shell under the roost as well as the middle two brown ones in the egg box - one is Bernie, but it is rare for Bernie to lay two days in a row.
OK. I am worried!

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Our oldest EE hen lays eggs like that with the calcium bumps but has never been ill. We've had her since she was a chick in 2019. She doesn't lay as many eggs now but they always have those bumps.

 

[Ponypoor]

Good for her!

All I can say is, she will self regulate her doses. She gets them in the evening - and the mornings she is feeling fine, she'll outrun you. Mornings she is achy, you will be able to catch her and dose her. Probably a win-win, as doesn't that give some intestinal issues (for humans, stomach) issues when on long term? I thought someone once ? @Ponypoor maybe? said something to that effect.

Well the Meloxicam is a selective cox2 which seems to have protective properties to the gut, something like celebrex is a cox2 and is very easy on the gut.

Naproxen is terrible on the gut, and should be taken with Nexium (human). Aspirin is like that, not sure about chickens they are no mammals so have a totally different physiology. So not sure if aspirin has the same issues as with humans.

 

[Ponypoor]

Reassurance needed
I know I shouldn’t worry so much. I know that new egg layers take a while to get into their groove and that mistakes happen.
But I still need you to reassure me.
This is what Sylvie laid.
It is small - about 1.5oz - like two others she has laid. But it is pale brown (like the shell I found under the roost) unlike the dark brown she laid before.
Also it is strangely shaped and covered with bumps.
I am mostly sure it is Sylvie. It could be Piglet though hers are supposed to be blue and I think she is just checking things out still.
It is only the 3rd or 4th egg Sylvie has laid. There is some ambiguity about the shell under the roost as well as the middle two brown ones in the egg box - one is Bernie, but it is rare for Bernie to lay two days in a row.
OK. I am worried!

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First off congratulations to Sylvie I mused those first ones I guess.

Next - and I am sure others are saying this, my
Youngsters laid all sort of funky eggs, and now as they are older again laying crazy eggs.

Unless they are not eating or acting I’ll I don’t worry. I keep the weird ones for myself and sell the others.