wrinkled eggs!

[SCchickens2011]

duh, right what am I thinking, obviously I'm not LOL! Anyway, I was treating my flock for fowl cholera, or at least taking safe measures, one of my birds developed a large lump/tumor under the beak between the wattles, I culled her and treated the rest, none of them had any signs or symptoms so just taking precautions. I will just stop the scratch and seed and see what happens. Since I don't know which bird it is, I can't necessarily cull anything, also my flock ages range from 8 months to 1 year olds (9 @ 1yr old, 5 @ 8mos old) and I am NOT going to cull and start over unless it's direly necessary. I was thinking of putting a video baby monitor in there to see who is laying when and see if I can determine which one it is.

here you go

 

[SCchickens2011]

I have read a great deal about infectious bronchitis, and have seen some very experienced chicken people say that a wrinkled egg like that is pretty likely due to IB. It's a fairly mild viral disease that can cause a reduction in egg laying and sometimes kidney problems. The most common sign is a sneeze or a squeaky sound. But it can be very lethal in chicks. I agree with Dawg53 and Chicken Canoe.

so what do I do? what can I give her/them since I don't know who it is? Darn it! I just started being able to sell the eggs again! I stopped letting people buy my eggs while they were on antibiotics, and now this!

I have not eaten any of the wrinkled eggs (there have been only 3 so far) but can they be eaten? I have held them out of other peoples that I sell, I keep them in my crate for my household's consumption but will toss them if necessary.

this is great I have 4 EE's in the laundry room right now that I was going to try and put in my separate bachelorette pad next to the big coop, but now I will wait, the weather is going to suck this weekend anyway.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Infectious bronchitis has no human implications but the eggs would be ugly in a carton.
Cholera is contagious to birds but spreads rapidly and kills quickly. Symptoms are loss of appetite , increased thirst, drowsy, pale head, bluish comb, fast respiration, mucous discharge. Death is within hours so if none died that probably wasn't it. What were the symptoms?

Treatment for IB is electrolytes in the water, keep birds warm and well fed, avoid crowding and watch for secondary infection. All we're saying is that is a common cause of wrinkled eggs which was your original concern.

 

[SCchickens2011]

Infectious bronchitis has no human implications but the eggs would be ugly in a carton.
Cholera is contagious to birds but spreads rapidly and kills quickly. Symptoms are loss of appetite , increased thirst, drowsy, pale head, bluish comb, fast respiration, mucous discharge. Death is within hours so if none died that probably wasn't it. What were the symptoms?

Treatment for IB is electrolytes in the water, keep birds warm and well fed, avoid crowding and watch for secondary infection. All we're saying is that is a common cause of wrinkled eggs which was your original concern.

none, just went upon the advice of others on here that the one hen had fowl cholera due to the lump under her beak, and so I treated all as a precaution. Maybe overkill but oh well I guess LOL! Okay well luckily I do have the electrolytes already, I bought a packet when I got the new chicks and have some left. so the eggs I will just keep to myself as long as they are ok to eat. Funny how many things you learn, I would've never thought of a bronchial virus could cause this reaction, I was thinking there is something wrong with her RS! course I guess there could always be a different reason as was stated earlier about a tumor in the shell duct, or whatever. I will start with taking the extra treats away first so they can focus on their layer feed, then add the electrolytes to the water and go from there!