I got a batch of Welsummers last month ages 1-year down to about 2 months. One girl looked ripe for laying, and as we were caging them the person I got them from said she felt like she was getting ready to lay. So, I got her home and waited, and waited and waited. No eggs. Well, I finally got her in my hands and started feeling and she had a mass that felt like an egg but about the size of a tennis ball. It was also down a ways from the vent, so I knew either she was eggbound or an internal layer. She was getting pretty skinny and I knew that if it didn't come out it was the end of her. I did the warm bath treatment, a little vegetable oil up the vent, nothing was working. She was not comfortable at all. So, I figured we were going to have to put her down. Yesterday when I went out to feed and open the coop she was laying down and obviously was in pain. So, I ended her suffering and opened her up to see which it was. I found that she indeed was egg bound and this is how big the mass with the egg in the middle of it was with all the gross, gunky, hardened stuff around it.
Here is mass, it was about the size of a tennis ball with a beautiful chocolate colored egg in the middle. I think she was a virgin layer it was just too much to lay a large egg, which this was. It was a sad thing. I keep wondering why I have to learn so much in such a short time, I have not been having a good streak with my animals this last 6-months
Here is mass, it was about the size of a tennis ball with a beautiful chocolate colored egg in the middle. I think she was a virgin layer it was just too much to lay a large egg, which this was. It was a sad thing. I keep wondering why I have to learn so much in such a short time, I have not been having a good streak with my animals this last 6-months
