Hen passed blood clot & weird egg membrane

[Tailwise]

Before you stop...can you just clarify what you did that you think worked?

I mean, the honest answer is that it's hard to be sure. I see three scenarios here:

1) she does have an illness, cancer or inflammation but it's slow-acting so I won't find out what's going on until her vet visit, and her current health says more about the slowness than about anything I did.
2) It was a fluke of her reproductive system that was only going to happen once anyway, so it doesn't matter what I did.
Or 3) she's been lacking in calcium due to being inside (much less daylight) and having a habit of tearing through her layer pellets before the rest of her food, plus being older than she used to be (over 3 years) and thus more likely to run a deficiency (plus having a stressful run-in with a rooster the day before). In which case what helped was me moving her to a place where she gets more daylight + the vitamin D3/calcium supplements and yogurt I've been giving her over the past few days + moving her away from all stressors.

 

[Sondraa]

Got it

 

[Tailwise]

Unfortunately, it looks like we're not out of the woods yet. I got cocky after three normal eggs in the space of three days.

This contained some blood and a lot of albumen. I did skip over most of her medication yesterday as I was trying to find the right dosage (and the citrate pills are a lot bigger than the Vitamin D3 pills I tried to give her). If she continues to act normally, I'll call the vet on Monday to see if I can get some antibiotics, just to be sure. Otherwise, emergency vet sooner.

She's been attacking the oyster shells whenever I put them down, but loses steam after a few.

 

[Eggcessive]

Most people use 300 to 600 mg of calcium with vitamin D daily for up to 7 days. If you place it in her beak she will swallow it.

 

[Tailwise]

The pills are 1000mg calcium and too big for her to swallow. I tried to disolve half of one in water but it sunk to the bottom. Now trying to crush up the other half and give it to her piece by piece.

 

[Tailwise]

I'm mostly concerned about the blood. I don't know to what extent that can be explained by something to do with the calcium/vitamin issue?

It's the second time in the space of about 5 days, so I'm not afraid of her bleeding to death or anything (she is once again pooping normally, so much like last time the bleeding seems to be contained to this one splurt, and it happened a few hours after her previous, normal egg).

 

[Eggcessive]

It must be something wrong with her oviduct or ruptured blood vessel. 1/2 of the calcium tablet is plenty for a daily dose. Wyorp Rock is much more knowledgeable about those things.

 

[Kiki]

If you want to know more about her, I tried to detail it all here back then.

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...eukosis-in-poultry#Clinical-Findings_v3342481

Does your flock still have avian leukosis?

 

[Tailwise]

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...eukosis-in-poultry#Clinical-Findings_v3342481

Does your flock still have avian leukosis?

The vet said she didn't think it was viral & that bird died before I brought this one in as a chick.

 

[Tailwise]

Spoke to the veterinary hospital on the phone. The avian specialists won't be in until Monday, but I was assured that if she continued to act normal and the blood isn't in her stool, it can wait.

She is beginning to make broody noises. I hope that means this was the last egg for a while.