What is this!?

[casportpony]

It might of been just a soft egg from lack of calcium

I see what look like bits of pus.

 

[Neuroscigirl]

Watch for one looking a little off, mabybe hanging out by herself more.

Gotcha, I will do. It's hard because I have a couple broody girls right now but I'm hoping that isn't the one with the issue?

 

[Neuroscigirl]

I see what look like bits of pus.

my poor girls! I need to install a duck cam out there lol

 

[house.of.ducks]

I give my duck that frequently gets egg bound calcium gluconate over some mealworms every day and it seems to help her to not become egg bound and not lay soft eggs. Also I would suggest hand feeding them some oyster shells if you can because sometimes they can forget they’re there. Kale also has a lot of calcium and my ducks love it, and you can also feed them their own crushed up egg shells for some extra calcium too.

 

[house.of.ducks]

Oh and welcome to byc!!

 

[chickens really]

Hello, is this Duck a new layer?..Just as with any new layers their egg machines are not working to full potential yet.. Or she has an infection. Tums is a great source of calcium for them..

 

[Miss Lydia]

Actually @Amiga vet said Calcium citrate and Calcium Gluconate were the 2 best assimilated of the over the counter calciums. Tums in a pinch till one of the other can be gotten.

 

[casportpony]

Gotcha, I will do. It's hard because I have a couple broody girls right now but I'm hoping that isn't the one with the issue?

Is a vet an option for you? If so, maybe you could take your four hens for a wellness exams. My avian vet charges $45 to see 1-2 birds or $68 to see 3-4 birds. I suggest this because if that is pus in the one picture the hen that laid that probably needs antibiotics. If this type of infection is not treated is usually fatal. I don't want to scare you, but I just wanted to let you know how serious I think it could be.

 

[chickens really]

Ducks are no different from any new layer..Things need to be sorted out in the egg production and then all is fine. If a new layer Birds can lay strange eggs for months and a calcium over load won't help that...

 

[speckledhen]

I don't believe this has anything to do with calcium. They can eat that all day long, but not assimilate it, or they can assimilate it and have this happen, aside from calcium consumption. I know nothing about ducks in particular, but have lost numerous hatchery hens to egg yolk peritonitis, internal laying and reproductive cancer. These are genetic/hormone based malfunctions in chicken hens. I've seen things like that, membranes around a perfectly formed egg, eggs with no shell at all, not even a membrane, etc, etc, the list of weirdness is long.

Chances are that she has an infection going on, as casportpony suggested, and needs antibiotics to try to kick it out.