Lash Egg or Something Else??? Help!!

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Wyorp Rock said:
Possible she is laying internally.

You've been finding the membranes, so she's expelling some material. The worry is IF the shells are not intact when she's expelling them and yolk/albumen are entering the oviduct this can cause infection. And sometimes the material can travel back up (reverse peristalsis) and be deposited into the abdomen...(EYP)

The not feeling well for a few days, then better after expelling material, then back and forth, she's having some problems. Could be she's expelling a whole membrane and the other hens are eating them too. I had a hen that would get like that and the other hens learned to recognize that she was trying to expel a membrane, they'd wait behind her and "help" her by pulling it out, then it was a free for all to eat the "egg". She waxed and waned for a good while. I did give her Amoxicillin, and she did better for another 8 months or so, then one day really declined hard and I put her down. This is one hen I did not do a necropsy on, she was my Lucy, but I recognized the similarities between her and another hen, so..


So many scenarios really, it's hard to know unless you lose them and take a look inside to see, then you may have even more questions at times.
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Didn’t think about the others possibly eating it before I find it. 🤮

Given that she has had her ups and downs, this all makes a lot of sense now. I will start with what you suggested and go from there. Don’t want her to suffer so I will do what I can to give her a good quality of life. She’s one of my favs (of course). Sorry for your loss of Lucy. Love them like pets.

Thanks for taking the time!
 
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aking19 said:
Don’t want her to suffer so I will do what I can to give her a good quality of life.
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I'm sorry this is happening to your hen. I didn't see any mention of her age or what breed she is. Reproductive issues are more common in production hybrids vs. the heritage breeds.

As with Wyorp's chicken, we had one that waxed and waned for months. We knew it was a reproductive issue as she never laid an egg but she acted normally for months until she started acting sick. We too provided Amoxicillan which would bounce her back for a while. She enjoyed more good days than bad as top hen in the hierarchy. As the disease progressed over time, her bad days started to outnumber her good days and she started to relinquish her position of power to second in command and her quality of life was severely diminished. That's when I knew it was time to dispatch her. It wasn't until the last month that she started to walk like a penguin and she had a great appetite until the end. When I performed an abdominal necropsy, the EYP mass I found was as large as a softball. She was 14 months age.

You will know when it's time. Follow your heart guidance. Always a hard decision and of course, it's always our favorite hens. I wish you the best.
 
Bawkbok said:
I'm sorry this is happening to your hen. I didn't see any mention of her age or what breed she is. Reproductive issues are more common in production hybrids vs. the heritage breeds.

As with Wyorp's chicken, we had one that waxed and waned for months. We knew it was a reproductive issue as she never laid an egg but she acted normally for months until she started acting sick. We too provided Amoxicillan which would bounce her back for a while. She enjoyed more good days than bad as top hen in the hierarchy. As the disease progressed over time, her bad days started to outnumber her good days and she started to relinquish her position of power to second in command and her quality of life was severely diminished. That's when I knew it was time to dispatch her. It wasn't until the last month that she started to walk like a penguin and she had a great appetite until the end. When I performed an abdominal necropsy, the EYP mass I found was as large as a softball. She was 14 months age.

You will know when it's time. Follow your heart guidance. Always a hard decision and of course, it's always our favorite hens. I wish you the best.
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Im so sorry to hear such a sad story. And bless you for doing a neceopsy yourself, I don’t know if I could do that. My girl “Big Flop” (she was the biggest reddest combed pullet at 14 weeks I thought she was a rooster - she has a big floppy comb, hence her name lol) is a 2 year old Barred Rock. She was laying eggs normally it appeared until she molted last year. A few of my gals were slow to pick back up laying this year, weird considering 8 of them only turned 2 in April. Big Flop was laying quite a few shell-less eggs too but she still seems perfectly normal with the occassional “off day” so I aim to just do the best for her, thanks for the encouragement.
 
Bawkbok said:
haha, I love her name.
I shared our story just to help provide some details around our experience to help you identify behavioral changes, realizing of course, every chicken and every situation is different.
I hope Big Flop makes a big turnaround.
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Absolutely! I hate ti hear what you went through, but it helps to kind of know what to watch out for. So hard when we have to diagnose for ourselves. Thank you for sharing. :hugs
 

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