Please look at these eggs, whats wrong ?

IB is a real pain to deal with. It's infectious so will spread through a flock and although some birds will seem all fine and normal they might be carriers and can display symptoms when they are run down etc. If you pop down to the coop at night while they are asleep you will hear the breathing rattle. It can be quite upsetting. I had a bird with it and tried multiple things including tylan , smoke bombs, and all sorts of breath easy potions but I lost her in the end
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That said if your birds do have fowl pox that could certainly contribute to the condition of the shell.

I would have a listen while they sleep, see if they gasp at all or sneeze and whether they have runny eyes. They won't necessarily have all these things. My little hen didn't gasp till the end and her eyes were fine but at night she sounded like she smoked 60 a day and she sneezed now and then each day..

Hope it's not IB and just the fowl pox making them poorly ...
Fowl pox does not turn birds into carriers of the disease, infectious bronchitis does. Also, fowl pox does not contribute to poor eggshell quality, infectious bronchitis does. Fowl pox can cause slower egg production or stoppage until after the disease passes, but that is all.
 
No no I didn't say fowl pox can turn birds into carriers. I was referring to a different post from the same person showing a pic of one of her ladies with a growth on her beak and some lesions on the comb and wattles.
The hens were out in a pen during a night of rain and are not cooped at night. So I thought they might have been stressed.
The first pic of the eggs does look like IB but let's hope not xx
 

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