egg problem

Posted in emergencies/diseases group as well… This is my second year with ducks, we just have three female Indian runners. I cracked this egg today and noticed some slimy orange/rust colored spots inside the egg shell. I tossed the egg as there was a slight off putting smell from that spot. The...

I have a 2/5 year old aylesbury female duck. The one in the right side: . She started laying at 5 month. She ve been getting calsium since she started laying. She had normal daily laying. Without any pain. She eat normal and she was a happy healthy duck. Sometimes she laid two eggs in a day...

Hi guys! Several months ago one of my white leghorn chicks got paralyzed and I'd like to tell her story. Maybe it will inspire somebody not to lose hope :) *** Sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker. I have a country house where we keep chicken. We don't live there, and it's 10min on...

My hen, Myrdle, is straining her abdomen and vent a lot, her comb and wattles are pale, and she’s waking funny. She is pooping fine, so I’m guessing she’s eggbound 😬. I just soaked her in Epsom salts and massaged her abdomen for an hour or so but she hasn’t laid yet. I’m planning on keeping her...

HELP! My chickens are slowing/stopping egg production at less than A YEAR old!! Please help! My chickens egg production was really great (I have four hens and we were getting 4 eggs a day) until a couple of weeks ago when we started getting 0-2 eggs a day. I thought it might be a calcium...

Hi, I have a seventh month old grey Australorp hen who has been acting ill. I have checked the other threads but none of the other posts seem to perfectly match symptom wise. Very lethargic compared to usual behavior, has not laid an egg in 2-3 days, is fluffed up and almost paralyzed not...

We have 5 one year old hens: 2 Americana, 1 lavender Orpington, 1 leg horn and 1 barnevelder. Since early February I haven’t gotten a single from the Americanas. We chalked it up to cold weather and not much sunlight. Even though the other girls were laying in full force and we keep a heat...

Hi All. Our wee flock of six sliver Appleyards (one drake and five ducks) has dropped egg production from a consistent 4 eggs/day earlier this spring (sometimes 5) to 1 or 2 eggs/day (it's mid-July now). The ducks are two years old, and we live on the coast of Maine. They free range for an...

A assume my Orpington hen has calcium deficiency, I’m not giving oyster shell right now but I’m gonna buy I’m just making sure because her sister had an internal laying problem that we had to put her down for. They also eat All Flock and not layer, we have so many poultry it’s just easier to...

Hi All, my cream legbar has had all sorts of egg problems. She began laying and everything was normal for about a month then the quality of the eggs declined. Most were soft or semi soft breaking when I took them out of the box. She then started having them get stuck. She had two soft eggs get...

Hello everyone. This morning when I let my chickens out from the coop, I noticed that one of the chickens layed an extremely soft egg and because of it, the egg had popped inside the coop. Then a few minutes after I let them out, there was one hen by my door steps, I thought it was strange that...

My girls have taken a break from laying for about a week now. I came home to this odd egg. I believe it’s considered chalky but it also has an odd bump on the end. My Storey’s Guide said it was a glitch in the reproduction system. Is there anything I should do to prevent this or will it...

This morning at wakeup, we noticed that our 4 year old Easter Egger, Esther, was acting abnormally. She was fluffed up and quieter and moving slower than usual. Then I noticed she was trying to void but she squawked like she was in pain and I saw a clear liquid, like an egg yolk, dangling out of...

HELP,!!! My beautiful ex-battery hen, Brittany isn't doing well. She is sitting around puffed up with eyes closed and seemed to be sitting in egg white but I couldn't find the shell. (I've been dealing with soft shelled eggs for weeks and giving her extra calcium, but she lays eggs at a rapid...

my hen made herself a little nest and when she lays, the egg smacks the floor of the nest box and cracks. it's causing ants. how can i fix this safely? maybe i can tack a cloth or a towel in there? any advice is appreciated!