4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Steph101]

I don't know if I'm worrying unnecessarily, but the past couple of mornings when I've gone to check the nest box and empty the litter tray, I've noticed a couple of clear puddles on the bars and in the tray!

Never noticed this before. Is there any cause for alarm? The poos all look normal.

[chocchick]

Is it damp, or part of an egg?

[Steph101]

It's damp patch, just like a puddle of water. It's clear, nothing else around it.

[Olly]

You don't say if you have a Cube or an Eglu? If it's the former, are you sure it's not leaking?

 

You surely couldn't have missed the lengthy threads on this in the Eglus & Cubes section ... Omlet are sending out a fix. If it's not this, I don't have any suggestions I'm afraid. Do you think one of your hens is leaking?

[Steph101]

It's an eglu. there had been no rain the night before or anything. In fact, I'd cleaned it and put put diatom, red mite powder, and bokashi all over it, so they damp patches really stood out. The clear liquid definitely came from a hen. Has "Ooops, word censored!"ody else had this, seriously? I posted it on the clinic forum too, because I wasn't having any replies, and someone kindly locked it. Nice.

[chucknette]

Hi

 

You dont reckon you have egg eating going on do you?

 

Sometimes they are really good at getting rid of the evidence.

 

I saw this once or twice in my trays and found that it was soft eggs.

 

Hope this helps

[Steph101]

Hmmm, don't know. We're not missing any eggs though. And I haven't found any shells either.

[Clur]

May be a silly answer, but it's not chicken urine (or whatever it is) is it? I had a panic not long after getting my girls and posted on here to ask what the mass of clear liquid on my patio was, and that was the answer

[Steph101]

No, it's a good answer, BUT I have never seen it before. We've had them since February.