Solitary chicken - need advice

[SuburbanChick]

I have four hybrids and I've noticed when picking them up to check them over that one of them definitely smells rather "chickeny". She seems quite healthy, is laying every day and loves to dustbath so she is quite clean. It isn't a pooey smell, just an "animal" smell.

 

I've thought that some of the eggs I was eating were a bit strong in flavour and as I was making a cake yesterday I noticed this smell as I cracked some eggs.

 

Has anyone any idea what is going on? She's a lovely white and brown Amber hybrid.

[Beantree]

One of the immunisation viruses they are given (IB or ILT) causes the smell SuburbanChick. We had a lovely hen nicknamed 'stinky'. She laid fantastic eggs and there was no smell noticeable on them. Perhaps what you can smell has just rubbed off on the shell? After a couple of years the smell subsided.

[SuburbanChick]

Gosh Beantree I find that really disconcerting I could get the same smell on the inside of the egg shell when I cracked it - I wonder if the eggs are safe to eat? Very worrying because I have been eating them

[Egluntyne]

Surely all the hybrids will have been vaccinated, so why would only one smell?

 

I always notice a very 'gamey' smell whenever I take on some newly rescued ex batts, but the niff disappears after a few weeks.

[Luvachicken]

I actually quite like the smell of my girls

Are you sure you can definitely smell the smell inside the egg ?

After mixing up something very stinky for my girls that is all I could smell for days and I can still smell it

[SuburbanChick]

"gamey" describes it perfectly Egluntyne and yes I can smell it in her eggs. I was using lots of eggs in baking yesterday and the others were all fine - I sniffed all the broken shells and only hers smelled strange.