Green albumen, terrible smell - should I be worried?

[MaeM]

Hello. So I had a very stinky egg with greenish albumen and random yellow spots instead of a yolk. I don't have a picture because it was so repulsive we had to discard it immediately to avoid puking.

The egg looked normal on the outside except for a little rough patch in the shell.

My question is... was this egg just rotten or should I be concerned about my hens' health? I don't know exactly which one laid that egg, but I have a 1 year old hen who've recently started laying eggs again after a long treatment to deworm her + calcium supplement. Before that, she would only lay soft shelled eggs.

The vet suspected from a birth defect in her reproductive system but she used to lay perfect eggs when she was a pullet, so IDK.

I'm concerned about the possibility of this egg meaning that she has an infection due to the yolk + the albumen being essentially "loose" inside her.

What should I do? All the flock is acting normal/no symptoms.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Sounds like a very rotten egg.

 

[3KillerBs]

I'd guess that if it happens again you have a problem and if it doesn't happen again you somehow managed to lose an egg for a while and it was very old and rotten.

I know that I've found eggs buried in the nests from time to time that I could miss for a few days.

Once I even found one buried in the coop bedding when I was cleaning it out (threw that one DEEP into the woods).