Instructions
Pay attention to your eggs. Egg Drop Syndrome is diagnosed when the hen starts laying eggs that have extremely thin shells or without any shells at all.
Examine the egg shell's pigment. Egg Drop Syndrome usually causes the shell's pigment to fade. This is most commonly seen in chickens that lay brown eggs.
A rough shell indicates Egg Drop Syndrome.
Once you have noticed that your hens are laying eggs with weakened shells, you should crack a few of your healthy looking eggs and look at the inside of the egg. Hens that are suffering from Egg Drop Syndrome will often lay eggs that have broken yolks or sometimes without any yolk at all.
Young hens are more likely to catch Egg Drop Syndrome than older hens. This is probably because the older hens caught the virus when they were younger and are immune to the disease.
How to Identify Drop Egg Syndrome in Chickens
In the middle of the 1970s, poultry farmers were finally able to give a name to a problem that had been plaguing them for years, Egg Drop Syndorme. Egg Drop Syndrome is a contagious disease that leads to a dramatic drop in egg production. It is seen mainly on farms that raise chickens and quail, although it has been seen in some flocks of ducks. The good news is that although Egg Drop Syndrome can cost the poultry farmers their eggs, the birds themselves remain perfectly healthy. Most farmers notice a decrease in egg production that last for approximately a month, after which their hens resume laying normal eggs.