Some blood smeared on egg

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SurreyLass

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Some blood smeared on egg
« on: April 22, 2011, 13:52 »
Henrietta has been laying every day for about a week and a half now, and normally lays by about 10.30 / 11.00am. Today, she has just laid, and its a bigger egg than normal for her (not massive, but definitely bigger) and had a bit of blood smeared on the shell

Any advice?

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SurreyLass

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Re: Some blood smeared on egg
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 18:15 »
Just compared it to her egg from a couple of days ago (as she lays 2nd, it was still warm when I collected them, whereas Milly's egg was cold from being laid earlier) and it is quite a lot bigger - could that have anything to do with it?

Looking at her, there are no signs of blood externally, and she is behaving normally - eating and drinking fine, and nice and perky.

Any comments gratefully read!


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Re: Some blood smeared on egg
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 19:14 »
i get this from time to time, i have come to the conclusion, that sometimes the eggs is a bit bigger than the hole intended it to be, hence a little bleeding. i maybe wrong tho lol. I would just keep and eye on them and if they seem fine, they most likely are

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Re: Some blood smeared on egg
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2011, 22:10 »
I had the occasional egg with a small smear of blood when one of mine started laying, it didn't last long. She's probably stretched it a bit if the egg was big, so long as she's not bleeding, seems fine in herslf and the others aren't pecking at her rear she should be fine.

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Re: Some blood smeared on egg
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2011, 16:17 »
She hasnt laid today - is that ok? She has been laying every day for a week and a half till this incident yesterday. Before that she only laid 3 times over a 10 day period.

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Re: Some blood smeared on egg
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2011, 08:58 »
She laid first thing this morning - nice normal egg with no blood. So hopefully the blood was because it was a biggie and she is young.


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