Dynamissa
Chirping
I have a Delaware who,
As far as I can tell has always laid eggs with meat spots in them. She’s about a year and a half.
A week or so back she looked off. Overnight she laid a normal egg and a soft shelled egg. Didn’t lay for a couple days. Then the heat came with indexes of 105. Suddenly her eggs were MASSIVE with strange irregularities in the shell (deposits, thin spots?) the other night she was sluggish and off, not the usual stompy Dino. Pulled her inside in case it was heat and humidity. Overnight she laid a giant soft shelled egg and seemed to feel
Herself again… at least until before roosting time. She was looking sluggish again and uninterested in food.
I let her stay with her flock because temps and humidity were cool and comfortable. She went into the nest box early. I came out later that night and she had moved to the coop floor, a mucousy looking poop in the nest box and some small amount of yolk and white behind her and in her butt feathers. Didn’t see a shell. I put her on the roost and she stayed there the rest of the night.
Came out with the others this morning but still looking sluggish. No overnight poop, but she
Pooped when she got outside. It was loose. She eventually went back into the coop and nest box. She’s still there right now.
Any ideas or suggestions as to what to do / what’s going on??
She’s on nutrena layer feed with free choice oyster shell. I figured maybe she was drinking more water than eating feed during the hot days which was contributing to weird shell quality (don’t know about huge size though… difficult to close the egg carton).. but she really hasn’t been into her feed at all in the evening. A little BSFL, maybe a little egg or yogurt. I think she was grazing during the day yesterday.
It’s this returning to the nest box and still being sluggish this morning after shellless (?) egg that had me concerned along with her general disinterest in eating her feed. She is usually huge pig with her crop stuffed to capacity.
Her abdomen feels fine.
As far as I can tell has always laid eggs with meat spots in them. She’s about a year and a half.
A week or so back she looked off. Overnight she laid a normal egg and a soft shelled egg. Didn’t lay for a couple days. Then the heat came with indexes of 105. Suddenly her eggs were MASSIVE with strange irregularities in the shell (deposits, thin spots?) the other night she was sluggish and off, not the usual stompy Dino. Pulled her inside in case it was heat and humidity. Overnight she laid a giant soft shelled egg and seemed to feel
Herself again… at least until before roosting time. She was looking sluggish again and uninterested in food.
I let her stay with her flock because temps and humidity were cool and comfortable. She went into the nest box early. I came out later that night and she had moved to the coop floor, a mucousy looking poop in the nest box and some small amount of yolk and white behind her and in her butt feathers. Didn’t see a shell. I put her on the roost and she stayed there the rest of the night.
Came out with the others this morning but still looking sluggish. No overnight poop, but she
Pooped when she got outside. It was loose. She eventually went back into the coop and nest box. She’s still there right now.
Any ideas or suggestions as to what to do / what’s going on??
She’s on nutrena layer feed with free choice oyster shell. I figured maybe she was drinking more water than eating feed during the hot days which was contributing to weird shell quality (don’t know about huge size though… difficult to close the egg carton).. but she really hasn’t been into her feed at all in the evening. A little BSFL, maybe a little egg or yogurt. I think she was grazing during the day yesterday.
It’s this returning to the nest box and still being sluggish this morning after shellless (?) egg that had me concerned along with her general disinterest in eating her feed. She is usually huge pig with her crop stuffed to capacity.
Her abdomen feels fine.
