What came out of my chicken?!?!

[millietime]

What is this!!! I found an egg, a solid normal egg inside a sac with white. Then there was this. The solid yellowish thing was in a sac and about the size of a walnut. The first picture is when I opened it up. The intact pictures are below it. Thank you!!

 

[pineapple416]

Not really sure...hope she is okay.

 

[Mary's Backyard Chickens]

Woah..... Not sure. Looks horrible.

 

[junebuggena]

Excess membranes. Could just be a random hiccup in the egg production system.

 

[ThenNotSoChickenMaster]

How old is your hen? Is she getting enough calcium? What do you feed them? Has there been any kind of stress, maybe a predator or is she getting picked on?

 

[21hens-incharge]

Looks like egg lash to me.

Not entirely sure though.

 

[millietime]

Hi I am about 99% sure it is from my 2 year old red sexlink. She had a horrible gleet vent/prolapsed vent situation about 2 months ago. Since then she was molting and took some time off laying. She just started laying again this past week and her behavior is normal. She is eating a mix of scratch and peck whole grain mixed with layer pellets with fruits and veggies.

I only have one other bird that lays the same color eggs (as the one I found in the sac right before finding this) and she is about a year and laying almost everyday. She has not had health issues like the other so I don't think it's her.

It totally looks like it could be a lash egg. Could that be from the vent gleet from before. I just cleaned her again today because she had some poopy feathers by her vent that looked like it's coming back. That said I got her some yogurt today to help.

Thanks BYC folks!!

 

[millietime]

How old is your hen? Is she getting enough calcium? What do you feed them? Has there been any kind of stress, maybe a predator or is she getting picked on?

Also she has plenty of oyster shell. She is one of the top hens so she is not getting picked on. No stressors other than time change so less after work free range time.

 

[microchick]

I know it isn't the most appetizing thought but I would cut it open and see what is inside. It almost looks like a shelless egg. Definitely sloughing off tissue of some sort though.

 

[21hens-incharge]

This link will take you to a list of conditions that can cause lash egg (proper name Salpingitis).

Looking up each condition you may be able to narrow down what is ailing her.

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/disorders-of-the-reproductive-system/salpingitis-in-poultry