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thank you LaFleche for your helpful input. Makes perfect sense that an older chicken might "sag" or not be as tight. She's back with the flock and doing well. I don't really expect her to lay.... last year she laid for a few weeks then went back into retirement. But I will ensure she has...

Well, I'm starting to wonder if she really was prolapsed or not. Nothing ever poked out of her vent it just was enlarged and open-- and pulsing. Her distress coincided with laying a thin shelled egg, and now I wonder if she was just having a tough time pushing an egg out. She seems bright and...

This morning she seems pretty good. Butt was messy, there was one largish but very wet (ie flat) dark green poop with some white (urate?) spots. Did a quick wash/soak-- she is strong enough to fight that. Applied prep H and coconut oil. Nothing is protruding, it just seems the vent remains...

I've found some previous posts with great information-- have just ordered calcium citrate with D3, more preparation H, and triple antibiotic cream. thank goodness for amazon 1 day delivery.... She is standing quietly in the dark. She ate up that second egg- evidently that old lady was HUNGRY

My 9 year old hen laid a few eggs earlier this year, then paused. Yesterday I found a smallish egg that I believe was hers (based on size and color- -I only have one other hen laying, and her eggs are larger) There was also a soft shell egg in the laying box. Fast forward to this evening...