No clue what this is! Help!!!

[Jenmass]

This bird is about 2 1/2 years old. Tonight I noticed this while feeding them. The box she was sitting in was wet, but this white substance looks more like mucus. Any ideas, should I be concerned, and what do we do about it??? Thanks in advance!

 

[nuthatched]

A soft shelled egg broke in side her, you can gently pull the egg membrane out.
She'll need some further care to make sure the egg doesn't make her sick, let me check the specifics and I'll be right back.

 

[Eggcessive]

It appears that she has an egg membrane coming from her vent, possibly from having a shell-less egg break inside her vent. Can you gently try to pull it out? I would clean her up and give her a calcium tablet or Tums orally for a couple of days to help her shells be hard. Has she recently begun laying again after a break, or has she had any problems with egg shells? What do you feed?

 

[nuthatched]

Here's a thread with good information:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/egg-broke-inside-hen.1397070/#post-22927658

 

[Jenmass]

We have 12 chickens total so hard to say if she quit or not. She always was a good layer! I feed a layer crumble and 2-3 times a week give them a little extra oyster shell and mealworms. Never saw anything like that before.

 

[Waylons mommy]

I've had chickens my whole life and NEVER SEEN, but have heard of it before. Until I moved down here to the Oregon coast. When I left up in Washington, I had 50+ chickens. The flock I got down here, all of them in the spring of 2020, of the 30 in the backyard I had 2 soft shell eggs (1st one I actually witnessed it "fall out" while she was trying to get in my back porch). Then one of my 2 sex links in the front yard, I seen her struggling, I thought she was egg bound? But she ended up having 5 soft shells, that I found, over the fall season. They're all fed a 50/50 mix of 5 grain scratch and layer pellets. I was shocked and still have not a clue why?