Thank you all. I'm so grateful for the help. These chickens are our pets and we care about each one. She had a shell-less intact egg last night and is doing much better today. I'm making some rice to mix with yogurt and 1 crushed citracal pill.
here she is tonight. She is very sleepy and was eating and drinking better earlier today but not as well now. I'm just hoping she'll be better in the morning
One people size tablet? Do you think I should put vinegar and water in her vent in case of infection? (From the rough-edged eggshell I had to help pull out?)
Right now she seems to get weak once per week and takes a day or two to nurse back to health. She had a big soft shelled egg rupture inside her lately.
She has has soft shelled eggs with the shell hanging halfway out of her vent, coccidiosis, heat stroke, and sometimes she just seems to starve herself. Plus recently she had an impacted crop. Her skin and feathers look clean, no observable bloating, eats mostly layer pellets.
Hi there, I have a little chicken less than 2 years old not doing well today. She barely moves, she's skinny, sometimes her comb looks purple. Her crop is a bit hard. She hasn't been laying eggs for a while now and is on the bottom of the pecking order. Plus we live in Yuma and it was 106 F...