How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[RobJones]

21/28 not a bad day I think

 

[tandykins]

What's a lash egg?

Yeah that looks like a lash egg to me.

Here are some pictures of others:







This explains it better than I ever could:

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2014/12/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard.html

But...in a nutshell - it's the result of an infection in your hen's oviduct.

Opinions vary on how bad a sign it is - I'd suggest a bit of your own research. It's not something I've experienced first hand (yet).

 

[JesNflock]

17 out of 30ish...broody girls, silly Silkies, and those sly girls who have secret hiding places (Yesterday I found 11 stashed in the corner of the yard....every time I find it they move it!

lol) It's like Easter all the time around here

 

[desert bantie]

3 eggs 6 hens but three of them have babies

 

[karenerwin]

Yeah that looks like a lash egg to me.

Here are some pictures of others:







This explains it better than I ever could:

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2014/12/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard.html

But...in a nutshell - it's the result of an infection in your hen's oviduct.

Opinions vary on how bad a sign it is - I'd suggest a bit of your own research. It's not something I've experienced first hand (yet).

Thanks! I went to that site & I agree, I think it is a lash egg. I had never heard of it before. I just thought the girls weren't laying many eggs in that coop because it isn't lighted and the days are so short. Now I have to try to figure out who it is. I know it has to be one of my EE, but I don't know which one. I also don't know what the risk is to the rest of the flock.

 

[tandykins]

Thanks! I went to that site & I agree, I think it is a lash egg. I had never heard of it before. I just thought the girls weren't laying many eggs in that coop because it isn't lighted and the days are so short. Now I have to try to figure out who it is. I know it has to be one of my EE, but I don't know which one. I also don't know what the risk is to the rest of the flock.

I'll message you so as not to fill up this thread with the conversation.

 

[matt44644]

11/15

 

[JacobMaxwell]

10 eggs from my 12 leghorn hens. My rooster foghorn gave moral support. (btw that's foghorn in my avatar pic)

 

[JustHenny]

Is it normal for EE's to lay way less this time of year? Non lighted coop as i give the girls a winter vacation, but i've only had 3 eggs in a whole week from two girls. I was getting a dozen from those two a week in nicer weather.

 

[maryellen21]

Wow she is gorgeous!!! And i think he is gorgeous too! I've never seen a gray egg before.