Strange Egg: Is it a Lash egg or something else?

[Kerya]

Hello everyone, my baby gal is finally of age to lay eggs. She had her first egg yesterday (at time of writing this) along with something else.

The day before yesterday I noticed slight tail pumping along with slight heavy breath taking. I was worried she was egg bound or having troubles, so I gave her an epsom salt bath and calcium (for an hour).
Then she laid her first egg that next day, and was more active with no pumping or heavy breaths.

Someone who isn’t experienced with hens said it could be a Lash egg, but told me to get a more experienced opinion.
To me this doesn’t look like a lash egg, but maybe a soft shelled? I’m just wondering if I should be concerned for her health/oviduct or if she’s okay now.

She does seem to be normal but I want to double check. No egg today either, for that I’m glad her body is giving her a break as long as it’s not something else.
(Her possible brothers/half brothers/cousins/or non related roommates may have “gotten to her” even through my best attempts to separate them so I’m not sure if that’s related?)

The reason I don’t know for sure if they’re siblings is that I don’t know who their parents re, or if they came from the same hen. But I’ve been separating them as if they are siblings lol
Anyway, thanks for the help!

 

[Eggcessive]

I think that is a lash egg. Can you cut it in half and take another picture? It is common for related chickens to mate, but you just don’t want to hatch any of their eggs. In special breeding programs, a parent might be bred to an offspring to pass on certain genes or traits.

 

[Kiki]

What do you feed daily?

Do you still have this thing? If so can you cut it open get another picture?


If she's a brand new layer.... it's possible it's a glitch and she'll be fine.

 

[Kerya]

I think that is a lash egg. Can you cut it in half and take another picture? It is common for related chickens to mate, but you just don’t want to hatch any of their eggs. In special breeding programs, a parent might be bred to an offspring to pass on certain genes or traits.

Thank you for the reply! I totally forgot to state that but she’s a duck actually. I’m not sure that changes anything lol.
This is what it looked like when I opened it! A very slight yellow-y substance or almost looks like a weird meat/fat.

If this is a lush egg, is there anything I should do to help her or is she okay now that it has passed?
I may have meloxicam left over that was also used for my ducks but I’m not remembering if that’s an antibiotic or not.

 

[Kiki]

Lash eggs are caused by infection.


Is she a new layer?

 

[Kerya]

What do you feed daily?

Do you still have this thing? If so can you cut it open get another picture?


If she's a brand new layer.... it's possible it's a glitch and she'll be fine.

I feed them grower still as I haven’t found a maintenance feed that’ll ship to me, and was told I could just keep them on it mixed with a layer or starter.
My adults (1-2+ years) are on a layer feed as their main food.
The “babies” (6 months and a bit) have had a mix of the layer and grower (accidentally) for about a week.
They also get peas and a bit of wheat seeds as a treat. The adults like corn, oats, lettuce, the seeds, bugs, and sometimes blueberries (I haven’t been adventurous with the younger ones yet)
OH and everyone gets nutritional brewers yeast for the niacin and other vitamins.

I just posted some pictures in another comment but I can post again if you’d like!

This is her very first time laying, the egg that came with/after this thing was fairly normal. Hard shell, little wonky but not irregular for first time
I would definitely like that it’s a glitch though, for her sake

 

[Kiki]

I feed them grower still as I haven’t found a maintenance feed that’ll ship to me, and was told I could just keep them on it mixed with a layer or starter.
My adults (1-2+ years) are on a layer feed as their main food.
The “babies” (6 months and a bit) have had a mix of the layer and grower (accidentally) for about a week.
They also get peas and a bit of wheat seeds as a treat. The adults like corn, oats, lettuce, the seeds, bugs, and sometimes blueberries (I haven’t been adventurous with the younger ones yet)
OH and everyone gets nutritional brewers yeast for the niacin and other vitamins.

I just posted some pictures in another comment but I can post again if you’d like!

This is her very first time laying, the egg that came with/after this thing was fairly normal. Hard shell, little wonky but not irregular for first time
I would definitely like that it’s a glitch though, for her sake

I'm not up-to-date on what a balanced duck diet is. I would guess not much different than a chicken and 8 can assure you that feeding daily treats isn't a good idea for chickens. A balanced diet of the crumbled or pelleted feed is best. I'd lay off daily treats if I were you.

 

[Kerya]

Lash eggs are caused by infection.


Is she a new layer?

Yikes that’s scary, I hope that isn’t the case.
She is a new layer though, literally her first time laying, she’s only 6 months since October 11th I believe

 

[Kerya]

I'm not up-to-date on what a balanced duck diet is. I would guess not much different than a chicken and 8 can assure you that feeding daily treats isn't a good idea for chickens. A balanced diet of the crumbled or pelleted feed is best. I'd lay off daily treats if I were you.

Oh I apologize, the treats I don’t give every day, I guess I shouldn’t have included them in my response. It’s just the grower/layer every day!

I don’t believe my local farm store has a crumble, unless the duck starter feed is a crumble. I haven’t looked at chicken food for ducks

 

[Kiki]

Yikes that’s scary, I hope that isn’t the case.
She is a new layer though, literally her first time laying, she’s only 6 months since October 11th I believe

Then it's much more likely this is a glitch. Could someone else have laid it?