My better half got home before I did this evening, and the first thing she told me was not to worry. But I'm a little bit worried.
Charlie our leghorn, still a youngster (been laying since we got her in September) laid an ostrich egg. Its 100g in weight, comfortably bigger than anything else she'd laid (she's good for a 60g egg, regular as clockwork, nearly every day). Her last day off was the day before yesterday, she laid a normal egg yesterday, then today she's come out with this.
No obvious sign of blood in the next box, her back end is clean, and apparently she was acting like nothing was amiss... but there's clotted blood on the egg.
I would assume she'll be okay, and this isn't the first time we've had a surprise whopper from them - young hens will do this kind of thing. But I've never seen as much blood on the outside of an egg.
Anything we ought to do for her? Should we maybe expect her to take some time out from laying to recover?
Cheers,
Cab.
Charlie our leghorn, still a youngster (been laying since we got her in September) laid an ostrich egg. Its 100g in weight, comfortably bigger than anything else she'd laid (she's good for a 60g egg, regular as clockwork, nearly every day). Her last day off was the day before yesterday, she laid a normal egg yesterday, then today she's come out with this.
No obvious sign of blood in the next box, her back end is clean, and apparently she was acting like nothing was amiss... but there's clotted blood on the egg.
I would assume she'll be okay, and this isn't the first time we've had a surprise whopper from them - young hens will do this kind of thing. But I've never seen as much blood on the outside of an egg.
Anything we ought to do for her? Should we maybe expect her to take some time out from laying to recover?
Cheers,
Cab.