Help! Lash egg???

[Morrison1020]

I have an eight-year-old I believe to be an ISA brown hen who has been laying soft shelled eggs for the past month or two I had the vet come out and she suggested I give her liquid calcium gluconate 23% daily I haven’t been consistent with this due to life in general but she gets it about every other dayConsistently her eggshells I’ve gotten harder here and there but today I discovered this in her nesting box what do you all think? I have an appointment at the vet but wasn’t able to get in until September 24 which is next week will she be OK until then? Any suggestions on what to do? Thank you in advance

ohI also wanted to mention about 4 days ago she was acting broody when she laidasoft broken shelled egg over night.

 

[Morrison1020]

This is what she laid the other night when she was acting broody. She definitely was not acting right. But back to herself after she passed this

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Ugh! That looks like it'd be nasty to pass! Poor thing. I'm glad that she's acting more normal now, though.
She's beautiful!

 

[Eggcessive]

It does appear to be a lash egg. That is common with salpingitis, a reproductive disorder involving inflammation of the oviduct. If discovered early, antibiotics might be helpful, but at this stage they may not help. Many hens will have these lash eggs inside the abdomen when they are butchered or autopsied. Soft or shell-less eggs can also be common with salpingitis, and those can make a hen feel bad for awhile when they lay them. I would continue giving the calcium, but it may be a problem with her shell gland rather than a calcium deficiency. Especially, if no other hens are having this problem. Let us know what your vet has to say. Here are some articles to read:
https://www.thepoultrysite.com/disease-guide/salpingitis

https://the-chicken-chick.com/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard/

 

[Morrison1020]

It does appear to be a lash egg. That is common with salpingitis, a reproductive disorder involving inflammation of the oviduct. If discovered early, antibiotics might be helpful, but at this stage they may not help. Many hens will have these lash eggs inside the abdomen when they are butchered or autopsied. Soft or shell-less eggs can also be common with salpingitis, and those can make a hen feel bad for awhile when they lay them. I would continue giving the calcium, but it may be a problem with her shell gland rather than a calcium deficiency. Especially, if no other hens are having this problem. Let us know what your vet has to say. Here are some articles to read:
https://www.thepoultrysite.com/disease-guide/salpingitis

https://the-chicken-chick.com/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard/

Thank you for the information she is housed with one other older girl who hasn’t laid an egg in over a year. I’m interested in what the vet has to say myself.

 

[Kiki]

You ask if she will be ok until the appointment...
This is caused from an infection.
Infection doesnt just go away by itself.
Sometimes the infection is too bad to be helped by medicine.

 

[BGcoop]

Good luck with her, I hope she gets better, especially with her advanced age.

Sometimes the infection is too bad to be helped by medicine.

I had a 2 year old who apparently has this but never laid a lash egg, she had stopped laying for a molt and never restarted, then she slowly, over a couple months, declined- she ate fine but started acting more and more lethargic. When we finally decided to put her down I discovered she was just skin and bones but I hadn’t realized it since her abdomen was full. Unfortunately her abdomen was full of lash egg material- like a softball sized one! I felt so bad that I hadn’t discovered her problem earlier.

 

[Morrison1020]

You ask if she will be ok until the appointment...
This is caused from an infection.
Infection doesnt just go away by itself.
Sometimes the infection is too bad to be helped by medicine.

Totally understand that, it’s hard to get an appointment with a vet that will see a chicken. It’s the soonest I could get. I’d of course like to get her started on antibiotics but not sure what to give or how much. I hate having to wait

 

[Eggcessive]

I have had quite a few older hens die of reproductive disorders. I have never seen a lash egg laid before, even though I have done many necropsies on hens with good size lash eggs inside their bellies. Some have been found along with oviduct cancer and ascites. Many times we don’t know what goes on inside our hens, until we do a necropsy after we lose them. Some may live for some time with these internal issues.

 

[Isaac 0]

That does appear to be a lash egg. Just for some reference pictures, here are several lash eggs I found during a necropsy on one of my Pekin's. Her cause of death appeared to be reproductive related.