HELP!!! My chicken is laying smelly eggs with black yokes

[Ema]

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Agreed!! Hopefully your hen will get better.

 

[happychickengirls]

Well for all of you that were wondering about the cause of the black yokes - I posted this question again and was told it was from her coming in contact with proteus bacteria. This is found in the fecal matter of raw manure or poo. They suggested cleaning her cage really well- because the two chicks were in with ducks. Separating them of course! And putting her on antibiotics!!! Good to know information- thanks again everyone!!!!

 

[Sunny Side Up]

In contact with whose fecal matter? The ducks'? The horses? Chickens are always digging in the dirt and coming into contact with someone's poop, their own, the other poultry, any horses/cows/goats/rabbits whatever else is in the yard. I've seen chickens happily scratching through horse & cow manure & finding interesting bits to peck up. But that hasn't caused the smelly black yolks in their eggs. There must be more to this problem than just coming into contact with manure.

 

[MrsDabooka]

I'm pleased I've seen this post. My girl has laid a black yoke. Only just found out from my neighbour as she had some eggs from us. Apparently it smelt really badly. This happened just after I wormed my girls. As soon as they were wormed one was off colour. Still laying. But we had a very small egg with no yoke and a black one. She rested in the coop for two days as soon as the treatment was finished.

I gave her garlic. And she picked up.

We have no horses. Feed them corn, garvo and vegetable scraps.

I'm putting it down to an internal parasite and the worming treatment kicking in. As she is back to normal now. It also seems rather coincidental it happened just after worming.

I hope your little lady is ok now.

 

[ChooksChick]

This appears to be caused by staph infections, and the egg yolk is retained longer than it ought to be.

This is a bit long and mundane, but it gives the pertinent info, too.

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/204200.htm

 

[Desirai]

Just putting in my 2cents, I have no experience with chicken diseases but have had a cockatiel with a similar experience. It was a bacterial infection causing her issues, and the vet put her on a medication and it cleared up within a week. I don't think it was an antibiotic, something else. This was years ago though.

 

[RhodeIslandRedFan]

Here is some information on rotten eggs. Not sure if this is what is/was going on with your hen http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/1/egg-quality-handbook/34/rotten-eggs

 

[PhatChicks]

I just had this happen to one of my eggs. I sold two cartoons to my co-worker a few weeks ago and she today me today that once was black and smelly. I have 14 chickens total, no horses and they all eat the same food. I wonder what the problem really is??

 

[BBQJOE]

I just had this happen to one of my eggs. I sold two cartoons to my co-worker a few weeks ago and she today me today that once was black and smelly.

I have 14 chickens total, no horses and they all eat the same food. I wonder what the problem really is??

You must be a very good artist! I have drawn and tried to sell many of my cartoons with little luck. Most of them were pretty funny too!
As for the smelly black egg phenomenon, I'm going to go with chem trails.

 

[payton360]

Trust me you don't want to see the black yoke eggs...

All of my 5 chickens are molting and one is broody..we just found one smaller egg, it looked strange and was an awful stinky black yoke one.
I have been searching the internet to see if others have run into this. My coop is clean and there are no other animals that they share the area with.
Has anyone else had this happen and what happened to that chicken? Thanks to everyone for your input