- Mar 1, 2012
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Hi, Just joined BYC and have a question for anyone that might know.
We just had a hen (Rhode Island Red) die today,She was just a little over a year old.
My Wife wanted to see if she could figure out "What happened" so ,on to the kitchen table she went..
She found a very large mass that almost looked like an egg but with no shell inside her, And a new egg forming behind that.
The combination of the two ruptured something inside of her. We're not Chicken experts so lets call it the place the eggs are made. It actually looked like a hard boiled egg in there.
Inside the large mass was two fetuses (bones,Vertebrate, pasty mass of some sort) The strange thing is that she has not been around a rooster for at least four months.And has been laying eggs with some (What looks like) calcium build up on the shells. We bought five layers from a friend,I'm guessing they must have a rooster but could this have been inside her all this time? has anyone heard of this before? She never has seemed "right" since we got her but it's colder here and she came from a warmer climate so we figured even though there is a heater in their coop,she just needed time to acclimate and would get better in the warmer Spring weather.Thank you for any help and we're looking forward to hearing any coments or suggestions.
Thanks
Bob
We just had a hen (Rhode Island Red) die today,She was just a little over a year old.
My Wife wanted to see if she could figure out "What happened" so ,on to the kitchen table she went..
She found a very large mass that almost looked like an egg but with no shell inside her, And a new egg forming behind that.
The combination of the two ruptured something inside of her. We're not Chicken experts so lets call it the place the eggs are made. It actually looked like a hard boiled egg in there.
Inside the large mass was two fetuses (bones,Vertebrate, pasty mass of some sort) The strange thing is that she has not been around a rooster for at least four months.And has been laying eggs with some (What looks like) calcium build up on the shells. We bought five layers from a friend,I'm guessing they must have a rooster but could this have been inside her all this time? has anyone heard of this before? She never has seemed "right" since we got her but it's colder here and she came from a warmer climate so we figured even though there is a heater in their coop,she just needed time to acclimate and would get better in the warmer Spring weather.Thank you for any help and we're looking forward to hearing any coments or suggestions.
Thanks
Bob