Hi
I've had many lash eggs from hens over the years. Most are the yellow cheesy type, varying in size and like a cooked egg mass (hardened puss).
One of my hens, about 3.5 years old, stopped playing a few weeks ago. She's very active, no crop issues, loves her food, however she is thin and her feathers look like she's about to go into moult. They've been like this for about 2 months and I cannot see signs of new feathers yet.
Before she stopped laying, she infrequently laid mishapen eggs, where the shell was not perfectly round and had ridges in it. The contents were fine. Then we had two soft shelled eggs. Again the contents were fine but there was no shell.
Today she has laid another soft shelled egg, where I can see the leathery shell jacket and it has birthed open and there is a lot of egg white. White however she may well have eaten the yolk as I can find no trace of that. What there is along with that is a strange looking, quite red and long lump (about 1.5 - 2 inches long). It's not like any lash egg I've ever seen before, hence the reason why I'm asking if anybody knows if it is a lash egg or not. Clearly there's something not right and where I've had lash eggs in the past where a hen has gone off lay, in my case, it was almost like a clearing out of rubbish and they started laying normally again. Perhaps I was just lucky.
Here is the picture of what came out. I've searched on here and on Google to see if I can find anything exactly like it. And I found one thing which somebody has said was it's an ovary. I find that hard to believe. So if you have any idea what it is, please let me know.
Thank you.
I've had many lash eggs from hens over the years. Most are the yellow cheesy type, varying in size and like a cooked egg mass (hardened puss).
One of my hens, about 3.5 years old, stopped playing a few weeks ago. She's very active, no crop issues, loves her food, however she is thin and her feathers look like she's about to go into moult. They've been like this for about 2 months and I cannot see signs of new feathers yet.
Before she stopped laying, she infrequently laid mishapen eggs, where the shell was not perfectly round and had ridges in it. The contents were fine. Then we had two soft shelled eggs. Again the contents were fine but there was no shell.
Today she has laid another soft shelled egg, where I can see the leathery shell jacket and it has birthed open and there is a lot of egg white. White however she may well have eaten the yolk as I can find no trace of that. What there is along with that is a strange looking, quite red and long lump (about 1.5 - 2 inches long). It's not like any lash egg I've ever seen before, hence the reason why I'm asking if anybody knows if it is a lash egg or not. Clearly there's something not right and where I've had lash eggs in the past where a hen has gone off lay, in my case, it was almost like a clearing out of rubbish and they started laying normally again. Perhaps I was just lucky.
Here is the picture of what came out. I've searched on here and on Google to see if I can find anything exactly like it. And I found one thing which somebody has said was it's an ovary. I find that hard to believe. So if you have any idea what it is, please let me know.
Thank you.
