what in the world is this??

[preciouschick]

I was cleaning the poop boards. I found this in a pile. Looks like a bad egg. Funny it looks petrified . Its brown egg colored. A hole that's filled with brown yuck. About the size of a small egg too. Is it something I should be concerned about?
Any ideas??

 

[azygous]

Be a brave chicken keeper and rinse the poop off and away from the object. Then take another photo with something familiar for scale placed next to it. Next, slice into the object and photograph that. Last of all, describe what the substance is like.

If it's what I think it is, it will slice like cheese curds.

 

[preciouschick]

Be a brave chicken keeper and rinse the poop off and away from the object. Then take another photo with something familiar for scale placed next to it. Next, slice into the object and photograph that. Last of all, describe what the substance is like.

If it's what I think it is, it will slice like cheese curds.

ok I cut it. slightly frozen so I cant tell the consistency thank for the advice. the coloring is just on the end
the rest looks like poop.

 

[wf1992]

To my admittedly untrained eye, the second pictures look like nothing more than poop. A lash egg would look a bit like cooked egg inside and would definitely be a problem. Maybe just looked weird because it was frozen and coated in bedding?

 

[aart]

Cut right in to that circled part, that's what looks like it might be lash material.

 

[theoldchick]

Looks like a lash egg that was rolled around in poop before you found it.

 

[Jen's hermit]

Cut right in to that circled part, that's what looks like it might be lash material.
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Looks like a lash egg that was rolled around in poop before you found it.

If it is a lash egg the inflammation can be passed to humans, especially women. Can cause inflammation in the fallopian tubes!

 

[aart]

If it is a lash egg the inflammation can be passed to humans, especially women. Can cause inflammation in the fallopian tubes!

Not sure that is true, rather alarmist.
A 'lash egg' is coagulated pus from a bacterial infection in the reproductive system of chickens.
But always good to wash hands after handling chicken poop.

 

[azygous]

If it is a lash egg the inflammation can be passed to humans, especially women. Can cause inflammation in the fallopian tubes!

Lash material is composed of bacteria. Poop also has bacteria as a component. Just as we need a vehicle or our legs to travel a specified distance, bacteria also needs a vehicle to get from the lash material or poop to parts of our bodies where that bacteria can enter.

Our hands are the primary vehicle for bacteria to travel to those vulnerable points of our bodies - orifices that consist of mucous membranes where bacteria can establish residence, mouth, nose, eyes, sexual organs. Therefore, we prevent bacteria from being able to enter at those vulnerable points by washing the bacteria off of our hands after handling things we know are carrying bacteria.

It's as simple as remembering to wash our hands after every visit to our chicken pals.

 

[preciouschick]

I believe it was just a large poop. I posted more pics and the orangy color was just on the outside. I cut it open and it was poop material, a little grainy looking. Kinda threw me off. Thanks for all the comments and advice.