I have a girl that was bred last year. She had a HUGE ovulation and gave me 8 nice big healthy eggs. This year she went through what appeared to be a small ovulation (I questioned if she even ovulated or not). After this "ovulation"...the eggs have now dropped to the lower 3rd of her body and feel softer, but still somewhat distinct. About a week ago I palpated her and felt 8-10 big follicles, so I was expecting a larger ovy than last year.

In my limited breeding experience, you can still feel the eggs after ovy, but they are not very distinct. This leads me to believe she may be carrying some slugs this time? Could the smaller ovy be linked to her carrying slugs or maybe I just caught the tail end or beginning of the ovy and never saw the "football" ovulation?

Either way...I will just have to wait until she lays to know if she slugs out. She's due around February 19th. She was bred to my Dinker this year.

Here are two crappy recent pics of a lock and possible ovy. These were taken with my cell phone, so they are low quality.