Update! Prolapsed Vent or something else??? The Saga Continues . . .

[schellie69]

Keep her in a dark quite area with food and water and just watch and make sure that the vent does not come out and that everything is looks normal.

 

[Maureen&chickens]

Thanks again everyone. All is back inside where it belongs and she's resting in the chicken hospital ward with yogurt as a snack.

 

[Miss Lydia]

great news

 

[Maureen&chickens]

Okay, she just laid a shell-less egg. Was this what was supposed to be in the soft shell or was this another failed attempt at a complete egg?

 

[Miss Lydia]

does it look like a little water balloon? do you give her oyster shell along with her layer feed? Has she been laying without problems before now?

 

[Maureen&chickens]

Looked like a regular egg that had been cracked open; I found her eating it. The flock has oyster shell in the coop along with layer feed. I think she's been okay before now but I'm still trying to figure out who laid what so I'm not positive.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I just recently saw one of my hens eating a soft shelled egg before I could get to her, so it does happen.. lets just hope it will work itself out.. haven't any idea who laid the one I saw the hen eating either, they all seem to be fine.