Living with our little farm animals has brought us much enjoyment. This morning I checked the coop to clean it up a bit and I was pleasantly surprised by a little egg in the corner of the coop.
The egg on the left is a large egg and Big Red's first egg is on the right.
I had a feeling it was Big Red our Rhode Island Red pullet since she took a 'liking' to the rooster lately. Later today she was running around like she needed to lay an egg, so I locked them all back up in the coop. I checked in on her and she wasn't so histerical and finally saw that she had a prolapsed egg. Basically the egg didn't make it all the way down the egg chute before being laid. My friend and I did what we could to try to get the egg out of the chute and her body but were unsuccessful. She finally had stopped trying to push it out and we decided to end her discomfort.
Big Red will be missed especially by the little boy who had picked her out as a chick
and who loved her the most.
A prolapsed egg is very rare and is usually seen in young chickens when an egg that's too large is trying to be passed and will ultimately lead to death. Her first egg was tiny but the second one was of normal size.
What a shame.
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