Lash egg or something else?

[_ss233]

Gonna try to post this again with an edited photo. Found this in a nesting box yesterday and unsure of what it is. My hens are all young and just beginning to lay. All our eggs have been normal and hard healthy shelled. No one is acting differently but reading about lash eggs is really stressing me out. Could this be a lash egg? Or could it be a hiccup from a new laying hen? Today only one hen laid and it was a normal egg so I am unsure if this will be a recurring problem or just a fluke one time thing.

 

[Perris]

It doesn't look like a lash egg to me (and I've seen a few over the years). There is a test you can do: A lash egg is firm and can be picked up and cut in half. Try it with that.

 

[_ss233]

It doesn't look like a lash egg to me (and I've seen a few over the years). There is a test you can do: A lash egg is firm and can be picked up and cut in half. Try it with that.

The larger clump did seem firm and could be cut. But it was quite small. The other portion was more liquid and not firm.

 

[Perris]

The larger clump did seem firm and could be cut

can you take a photo and show us what the inside looks like?

 

[_ss233]

can you take a photo and show us what the inside looks like?

Yes I will tomorrow morning! Here is another photo in different lighting too. Weird how some is firm and some is more liquid.

 

[Perris]

For comparison, here's one I took of 3 small examples back in May
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...rescued-chickens-thread.1502267/post-28585948
they are made of coagulated pus and are quite firm.

I think what you are dealing with is just an odd poop.

 

[_ss233]

For comparison, here's one I took of 3 small examples back in May
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...rescued-chickens-thread.1502267/post-28585948
they are made of coagulated pus and are quite firm.

I think what you are dealing with is just an odd poop.

 

[_ss233]

Here are some photos I was able to take this morning. These are two day old but cut open

 

[Perris]

Can you get a photo showing the cut side? those show the surface rather than the inside

 

[_ss233]

Can you get a photo showing the cut side? those show the surface rather than the inside