White blob layed by a female

[MichelleKing]

*****UPDATE***********

I am declaring myself officially the biggest idiot of the day.

There was no lash egg at all. It was the ROOT OF THE HEAD OF A LETTUCE. I cut it open and then compared it to another lettuce head that was in my trash. Yep. A knawed up lump of lettuce root.

Thank you all for humoring me and my blunder today.

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I have 6 week old hens and 10 week old hens and I think one of them is laying something weird. I found a full egg membrane with nothing in it on the cage floor the other day. This morning, I found a huge white blob that was hardened in thehabitat. It looked like whipped egg whites that had hardened. Just smaller than a golf ball. Did one of my girls lay this and if so, whats wrong with her if anything? Has anyone seen this before? I've seen a soft shell egg layed and that was fine but this was like alien or something.

DIET Available 24/7
Vitamin water (Nutridench diluted)
Gamebird crumbles


SUPPLEMENT Available 24/7
Crushed oyster shells


TREATS - Once a day
Mealworms - 1/2 cup per 14 hens
Sesame seeds
Chia Seeds
Flax Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds
Sunflower Seeds
Organic home grown wheat grass

No other food or drink other than whats listed above.

 

[sourland]

Do an on site search on 'lash egg'.

 

[Wezdin]

Is the hen that laid the egg a quail? if so that is one huge lash egg. here is a thread i started describing treatments https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-is-this-in-my-eggbox.1278680/

 

[MichelleKing]

Is the hen that laid the egg a quail? if so that is one huge lash egg. here is a thread i started describing treatments https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-is-this-in-my-eggbox.1278680/

Thank you thank you thank you thank you. When you said it sounded big for a quail hen I 100% agreed with you. So then I investigated more....

I am officially declaring myself the biggest idiot on planet earth. It was not a lash egg and theres nothing wrong with my 6 week and 10 week old hens. Do you know what the "lash egg" was?

THE ROOT OF A HEAD OF LETTUCE. I cut it open, smelled it, and confirmed it. I'm so embarrassed right now I can't even.

Thank you for giving me a clue that helped me figure it out.

 

[Wezdin]

thats a relief!!

 

[JanetMarie]

The true idiot is the one who finds a chicken dead in a corner of their never-cleaned-out chicken house that has been ill for weeks.

Glad nothing is wrong!

 

[Wezdin]

You're not an idiot, you just want to keep your chickens healthy

 

[MichelleKing]

thats a relief!!

Oh you have no idea. I was literally having an anxiety attack over some lettuce.

 

[MichelleKing]

You're not an idiot, you just want to keep your chickens healthy

Thank you so much

You guys are so nice!!!