Odd eggs - help I can't find the answer

[shougchicken]

I'm fairly new to chickens but recently our eggs seemed to have changed. I've spent time on here and elsewhere trying to find the answer but I'm at a loss. Our main flock of 6 hens (1.5yrs) recently grew with an addition of a new roo and two silkie hens. Everything seemed great for a couple weeks until the silkie laid an abnormally small egg from her already small eggs. When we cracked it open it was red inside like a blood clot. She also has not laid in a while after the abnormal egg. I'll attach pictures and additional info to follow to maybe help. (She was being attacked by the hens, pecked pretty good until we noticed and separated them. Also the roo was constantly on her.) Now the original flock has mostly stopped laying and seems to be broody but their eggs seem different as well. Yokes break easily and different opaque ring and reddish ring in the yoke. Don't really know what's going on but any help would be appreciated! Pictures attached.

 

[Henora]

Could that be an embryo in the first pic?

 

[Debbie292d]

I think you need to get your eggs from under your hens faster. It appears they are starting to grow. Your yolks should have a bullseye-like white spot on them (from fertilization), but that looks beyond being a fertilization mark.

 

[shougchicken]

Could that be an embryo in the first pic?

We dissected it and it looked like that red blood clot all the way through, just as it looks on the outside. No change to texture or look.

 

[shougchicken]

I think you need to get your eggs from under your hens faster. It appears they are starting to grow. Your yolks should have a bullseye-like white spot on them (from fertilization), but that looks beyond being a fertilization mark.

We grab our eggs daily. We usually check at least twice a day if not more and collect them as they are laid. We don't wash them and are on a spinning rack on the counter in order from oldest to newest.

 

[Debbie292d]

We grab our eggs daily. We usually check at least twice a day if not more and collect them as they are laid. We don't wash them and are on a spinning rack on the counter in order from oldest to newest.

Hmm, I don't know then. I'd be sure they're on a good layer feed and/or all-flock and supplement oyster shell in a separate dish from their feed and hopefully, it'll just be a temporary thing. I get an odd-ball egg, rather rarely, but it happens, like one with no shell, or one with a ton of calcium deposits, but only one, so I rack it up to just a fluke.

The one that laid the smallest eggs, eventually laid larger ones, still smaller than the rest but at least she improved. That took several weeks of her tiny eggs though.

 

[aart]

Sounds like high stress all around.
Not sure what the large clot is, only time will tell if it's a glitch or something more serious.
How old are the new birds and how did you integrate them?

 

[shougchicken]

Hmm, I don't know then. I'd be sure they're on a good layer feed and/or all-flock and supplement oyster shell in a separate dish from their feed and hopefully, it'll just be a temporary thing. I get an odd-ball egg, rather rarely, but it happens, like one with no shell, or one with a ton of calcium deposits, but only one, so I rack it up to just a fluke.

The one that laid the smallest eggs, eventually laid larger ones, still smaller than the rest but at least she improved. That took several weeks of her tiny eggs though.

Since that little egg she hasn't laid that being said we have them on good feed, they free range daily, good/sanitary living conditions. They all seem and act healthy.

 

[shougchicken]

Sounds like high stress all around.
Not sure what the large clot is, only time will tell if it's a glitch or something more serious.
How old are the new birds and how did you integrate them?

Hasn't laid since that clot thing so who knows. The new birds are probably around the 6 month mark. Did some slow and supervised introductions at first like separated through the fence and gradually more exposure until just full integration. Everything seemed fine for that part, even the one silkie who got attacked by the hens was well into being integrated in the flock when it happened. I think she was wanting into the coop to lay and the other hens being broody or territorial decided to get aggressive even tho she had already laid in the coop prior.