I wouldn’t exactly call it an emergency…

[bobbi-j]

Regardless of color, I do think that is a lash egg. They sometimes contain blood or tissue, though not always. There are a couple of pictures here of darker colored ones inside:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard/
If you do a search of 'lash eggs in chickens' you will get more images, dark ones mixed in, but not as common.
So sorry. Whichever bird passed that may feel better for a while having gotten rid of that, but it's likely going to progress. She may pass more, or it may just build up inside. I've had them live for as long as 18 months with salpingitis, but many have passed sooner. It's very hard to predict. You can try treating if you want, but it's notoriously resistant to treatment. Usually enrofloxacin is what is recommended. They hide this illness so well that it's usually advanced by the time you know.

Thank you for the information and sharing your experience. If I find out which one passed it, she will be put down. It was in the coop that will be thinned before winter anyway. I’m guessing if she has another one inside of her when we butcher, it would be obvious? I really don’t want to eat a chicken with that going on.

 

[bobbi-j]

I agree with everyone else - lash egg. I found one on a webpage that looks like what you have:

https://cluckin.net/lash-eggs-salpingitis-or-egg-lash-disease-in-chickens.html

Thank you.

 

[bobbi-j]

Does it smell at all? Looks weird, even for a lash egg (which it sort of looks like).. Normally a lash egg will have a pungent/off putting smell if you take a whiff, at least that's what I've had in my experience.

Not really an odor to it. Not strong, anyway.

 

[artbykarenehaley]

Im sorry to say this, because it's probably going to gross people out. But it looks like a cooked organ of some sort. Hope your hen that passes it is doing okay.

 

[bobbi-j]

Im sorry to say this, because it's probably going to gross people out. But it looks like a cooked organ of some sort. Hope your hen that passes it is doing okay.

I had the same thought!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thank you for the information and sharing your experience. If I find out which one passed it, she will be put down. It was in the coop that will be thinned before winter anyway. I’m guessing if she has another one inside of her when we butcher, it would be obvious? I really don’t want to eat a chicken with that going on.

You may find more or some evidence of something off with her organs.
You've butchered and processed enough birds to know when something is up or off, so if you find something curious, then I would appreciate you sharing photos.

 

[bobbi-j]

You may find more or some evidence of something off with her organs.
You've butchered and processed enough birds to know when something is up or off, so if you find something curious, then I would appreciate you sharing photos.

I will try to remember. (I have a great memory. It’s just really short!)

 

[Eggcessive]

If you do put her down or lose her please post pictures of your necropsy findings. When I have lost birds I like to open the bellies just to see what was going on. Salpingitis is so common in hens.

 

[bobbi-j]

Salpingitis is so common in hens.

Interesting - like I said in my first post - I have never seen it before in almost 40 years of chicken keeping. I have either been lucky, or just unaware. Probably unaware. Could be the cause of an “I don’t know what happened” death (or more) over the years. My chickens free range, so there could have been lash eggs laid who knows where.