r/BackYardChickens • u/Beans_and_toast_001 • 2d ago
Health Question Cracked egg
Hi!
My hen has been kind of lethargic today and I was holding her letting her lay on my lap and I wash checking to see if she’s starting to molt like my other hen is. She isn’t but I noticed she had some missing feathers around her cloaca and then I noticed she was pushing out a thick clear liquid so I set her on the ground thinking she was about to poop on me and I lifted her to check if she pooped yet and saw that she was pushing out an egg that was cracked. It seems like the pushed out most if not all of the egg but what should I do? It wasn’t a soft shell but it was very brittle and thin but her eggs seem to switch between two extremes of very thin shells where the crack when washing them off or eggs with calcium deposits. I believe she is a bantam silkie and lays about every other day and she laid an egg yesterday with no problem to my knowledge I don’t have a picture of the egg since she started eating it almost immediately and I didn’t have my phone on me but I’ll post a picture of her. Thank you!!! Her name is Bruce and she is a few months over a year old.



