Salpingitis Home Treatement - Lash Egg

[Lizzy733]

Lizzy733, how’s your hen doing now?

She's doing alright... Back to laying solid eggs, but I find a few 'ugly' eggs a week now. Sometimes wrinkled, body checked, oddly pigmented or brittle. The brittle ones are only about once a week and typically under the poop deck or in the yard.
I have 4 girls (one's a silkie) and typically, if I'm short an egg at collection time, I'll find a brittle one the next day. I'm suspecting that this will be the new norm for her.
We're coming into their first winter now, so at this stage I'm just being mindful of her.
One thing that might help people with picking out a sickly hen is that all mine are pretty big on squatting for me, but her squatting turned strictly submissive when she started laying lash eggs. That was the only real 'standout' indicator, looking back so it might help someone who's having trouble identifying 'who' the sick layer is.

 

[Krazy4Chicks]

She's doing alright... Back to laying solid eggs, but I find a few 'ugly' eggs a week now. Sometimes wrinkled, body checked, oddly pigmented or brittle. The brittle ones are only about once a week and typically under the poop deck or in the yard.
I have 4 girls (one's a silkie) and typically, if I'm short an egg at collection time, I'll find a brittle one the next day. I'm suspecting that this will be the new norm for her.
We're coming into their first winter now, so at this stage I'm just being mindful of her.
One thing that might help people with picking out a sickly hen is that all mine are pretty big on squatting for me, but her squatting turned strictly submissive when she started laying lash eggs. That was the only real 'standout' indicator, looking back so it might help someone who's having trouble identifying 'who' the sick layer is.

I'm glad your little girl is doing better. Did you end up putting her on antibiotics, or just the liquid calcium and anti-inflammatory? Please keep us posted on how she's doing. Hopefully, she'll continue to get better and better.

One of my girl's has this same condition. She's not even 2 years old. I ended up giving her Baytril for the max of 10 days, and have been giving her probiotics daily. She was doing so great and then two days ago she was sitting in a nesting box straining and straining and finally laid a very soft shelled egg (just membrane covering it). It must be so painful for them to lay soft shelled eggs. The egg inside the membrane looked perfectly normal. Since then, she's been acting depressed and not really interested in eating, so I've been force-feeding her. And she's been drinking a lot and pretty much pooping liquid. She'll have little bouts where she'll be perking up and then she'll be back to being depressed. Not sure what else to try from here.

 

[jeannedeaux]

Is anyone still in this thread? I have 12 laying hens and 5 youngsters. Someone laid a lash egg this morning, first I’ve ever seen, and I have no idea who. I only know two by their egg colors, all the rest lay brown. The one who lays white has barely laid over the past four months and one of her eggs was under a broody hen but failed to hatch after many hours of trying. Could this be proof of illness? Or might it be someone else? A Barred Rock has a ragged set of butt feathers—nothing else off. A few seem to be molting or getting pecked. Otherwise I have no idea! What to look for? And if I go the antibiotic route, how to know if she lays an egg as I can’t use it, right??

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Is anyone still in this thread? I have 12 laying hens and 5 youngsters. Someone laid a lash egg this morning, first I’ve ever seen, and I have no idea who. I only know two by their egg colors, all the rest lay brown. The one who lays white has barely laid over the past four months and one of her eggs was under a broody hen but failed to hatch after many hours of trying. Could this be proof of illness? Or might it be someone else? A Barred Rock has a ragged set of butt feathers—nothing else off. A few seem to be molting or getting pecked. Otherwise I have no idea! What to look for? And if I go the antibiotic route, how to know if she lays an egg as I can’t use it, right??

You would need to figure out which hen laid the Lash Egg and only treat her if that's the route you want to take.
It's hard to know what would be "proof" of illness unless one is showing symptoms.

 

[Jeanne Deaux]

Okay, thank you. So if I find her and end up treating with antibiotics, I would need to separate her in order to be sure to keep any eggs she might lay out of collection?

 

[Shezadandy]

Okay, thank you. So if I find her and end up treating with antibiotics, I would need to separate her in order to be sure to keep any eggs she might lay out of collection?

Generally once they've laid a lash egg, they don't go back to laying regular eggs. Depending on how many hens you've got, you could try crating them one by one to see who's laying. Sometimes picking them up one after the other (suggest at roosting time) and seeing if one has lost a significant amount of weight, or has waterbelly or other anomalies from the rest can help, but not always.

https://the-chicken-chick.com/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard/

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Okay, thank you. So if I find her and end up treating with antibiotics, I would need to separate her in order to be sure to keep any eggs she might lay out of collection?

Whoever laid the lash egg may or may not continue to lay a normal egg - it depends on the extent of damage or how advanced the Salpingitis is.
What antibiotic would you use? If you do find out which hen it is, then separation would be a good idea if you don't know which egg is her if she did lay one.

 

[jeannedeaux]

Thanks to all. I never did see any clear signs until I found one of my two Barred Rocks dead in the coop Monday morning. She never seemed to be in pain but everyone is molting, not laying, and—unless one that hatched in July—seems a bit off right now.