Slow Crop -> Lash Egg -> Soft Eggshell with tubular connection to membrane HELP PLEASE

[jmw2025]

Same hen, Red Star about 5 years old. We wormed her about 3 weeks ago and she had an intestinal grass blockage about 7 inches long that I pulled out of her about 3 weeks ago as well. Saw her poops were weird yesterday night, mostly urates and little tubes of poop. This morning her crop hadn’t emptied and had her isolated and only access to probiotic water she wasn’t drinking. She eagerly escaped and went to try and lay an egg to no avail. When I went to check her vent right below it on the feathers there was a lash egg.

Pulled it off her butt and it was rubbery and not fresh. I believe she might have laid it a day or two ago. She gave up on laying and she was still pretty active. Brought her inside and she was a little sleepy until all of a sudden she wandered off and pooped and followed that poop with this monstrosity.

It’s hard to tell from the images but it starts as a tubular soft shell egg and then the tube becomes this soft white membrane also covered in this white goop.

I had a Leghorn with lash egg about a month ago and treated her with amoxicillin and worked and am thinking about doing the same for this chicken but want confirmation that my diagnosis is correct and this is the best way to proceed. Also hesitant because has acute she has crop emptying issues (soft and squishy with some hard pieces in the crop however her breath is not sour) and worried the antibiotics are going to make that worse. Is there an order in which I should treat these?

Help please, thanks for reading!

 

[Eggcessive]

Lash eggs and weird eggs are usually due to salpingitis (inflammation of the oviduct.) Sometimes the crop will become slow to empty as a side effect. I would recommend giving a human calcium tablet 300-600 mg with vitamin D orally once a day for up to 7 days. That helps increase muscle contractions to help pass eggs and lash material, as well as possibly making the shells harder. This one is a good buy:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-C...MI9bCAorq4jwMVxFxHAR0BwgDbEAQYAiABEgJN9_D_BwE

Antibiotics may or may not help with salpingitis when lash eggs are seen. Most require a 3 week egg withdrawal time. Amoxicillin and enrofloxacin are the ones that are most recommended. Enrofloxacin is banned by the FDA for chickens, but some still use it, since it treats E.coli well.

 

[jmw2025]

Lash eggs and weird eggs are usually due to salpingitis (inflammation of the oviduct.) Sometimes the crop will become slow to empty as a side effect. I would recommend giving a human calcium tablet 300-600 mg with vitamin D orally once a day for up to 7 days. That helps increase muscle contractions to help pass eggs and lash material, as well as possibly making the shells harder. This one is a good buy:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-C...MI9bCAorq4jwMVxFxHAR0BwgDbEAQYAiABEgJN9_D_BwE

Antibiotics may or may not help with salpingitis when lash eggs are seen. Most require a 3 week egg withdrawal time. Amoxicillin and enrofloxacin are the ones that are most recommended. Enrofloxacin is banned by the FDA for chickens, but some still use it, since it treats E.coli well.

Thank you so much for your quick response @Eggcessive , I deeply appreciate it and all of your responses on other threads I frequent, thank you for informing backyard chicken families like mine.

Started doing Amoxicillin 200mg twice a day (some threads say 150mg and others say 250mg and I know it is based on weight so I am being safe since she is not the heaviest to do 200mg) and the calcium citrate +D3 tablets around 450mg (serving size is 2 tablets is 630mg and doing 1.5 tablets). Will do the calcium citrate for 7 days and the Amox for 10? Let me know if those dosages and timelines sound about right.

She is also pooping very liquidy poops with very small poop crumbles and organic matter suspended in the liquid. I think I am finding a couple tiny pea sized lash ball material in them as well, between 2-4 in each, is that normal that she is still expelling some lash material? (it is the texture of soft cheese/boursin cheese if that makes sense)

 

[Eggcessive]

It could be lash material in the poops. Pictures are helpful. Yes, calcium is for 7, amoxicillin is for 7-10. You can give 250mg of the amoxicillin is she is close to 5 pounds. 50-57 mg per pound is good. Yes, 125-250 mg is seen in a lot of threads.