Is this a lash egg? If so, what do I do?

further to the last, this is what lash material looks like
lash material.JPG

(two lumps of it intact and one cut in half)
 
x2 on what Perris said, I can't tell if it's a lash egg. We'd need to see what's inside to determine for sure (as well as the smaller lumps that appear to be attached to the lower parts of the image). The largest mass appears to be a shellless membrane but the smaller bits could be lash material.

IF it is a lash egg, even after determining which bird it is, you really won't know if the antibiotics worked other than not seeing more lash eggs and/or the hen degrading in health. Salpingitis can be bacterial or viral, so antibiotics may or may not help depending on the cause.
 
that does not look like a lash egg to me; it looks like an egg with a weird membrane (and no shell, obviously). Did you cut it open? That would have clarified what it was. A lash egg is coagulated pus. An egg would include liquid.
The large section had egg material in it. The smaller, darker bit had some brown, thicker liquid.
 
x2 on what Perris said, I can't tell if it's a lash egg. We'd need to see what's inside to determine for sure (as well as the smaller lumps that appear to be attached to the lower parts of the image). The largest mass appears to be a shellless membrane but the smaller bits could be lash material.

IF it is a lash egg, even after determining which bird it is, you really won't know if the antibiotics worked other than not seeing more lash eggs and/or the hen degrading in health. Salpingitis can be bacterial or viral, so antibiotics may or may not help depending on the cause.
The larger section had egg material (no yolk) in it and the smaller, darker piece had a brownish, thick liquid come out, like a pudding consistency
 
It sounds like something else then; have you identified which hen laid it yet? Is anyone off colour? Self-isolating? anything that stands out as not normal in appearance or behaviour?
 

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