Pullett has vent issues! UPDATE: Go back with flock???

[TimeMist]

Can't wait to see the pictures.

 

[wings]

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You WANT to see pictures of the mutilated egg?!?!

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[TimeMist]

Hell yeah!!

I have an internal layer that has layed some might strange eggs!

It's also good education for all of us so that should it happen again to someone else we can help identify the problem. When my hen layed her first "weird" egg I didn't even know it was an egg and neither did many of the people on here, we thought it might have been an ovary. It wasn't till another was layed that we started to piece it together.

So pictures of anything that happens to our chickens is great for education.

 

[wings]

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Okey dokey. Once my camera is charged, I'll post a picture.

 

[chickenannie]

Is miss hen ok?

 

[wings]

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She's doing much better, thanks.

 

[wings]

Now- the much-anticipated pictures of the funky egg:

Now that I broke it open (after taking these pictures), I know that it is one totally normal egg (yolk & white in membrane in shell) with extra broken yolk next to it. This whole package is wrapped in a membrane, like the one that would be right before the shell. So, I think Ginger was going to lay two eggs, but something just got a little messed up. We'll never know...

 

[TimeMist]

Thanks for posting the picture.

I think your guess is right. Certainly looks strange though at first glance.

 

[TheDuckCrew]

woah!! that is one wierd egg!! thanks for the pics

 

[MoodyChicken]

Looks like an extra yolk slipped down the oviduct with the original. It's odd that it wasn't encased with albumen and a membrane though. Maybe she could only support the creation of one egg at that time.