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Chickens are not vocal when they don't feel well. Unlike us humans when sick who complain to everyone who will listen, sick or injured chickens go mute because they have an instinct not to call attention to themselves both because the others will pick on them while vulnerable and to protect the...

The tutorial about pills and chickens is in post #67. You can pull down on the wattles to get a chicken to open their beak, but that causes pain. I would rather slip a finger nail into the beak and pry it open and shove the pill inside. Hens can move the tail in different positions. That alone...

I'm going to post two of my favorite tutorials - why chickens can handle swallowing a whole pill and how to properly syringe fluds into a chicken. Here's my tutorial on why chickens have an easier time swallowing a bulky pill than humans do. We think chickens must have a problem swallowing a...

No, nothing, absolutely nothing you did contributed to her death. She began to die right after she passed the egg. When there is egg binding, it causes the crop to slow down and accumulate fluid. That's normal for the condition. So, when she began to die, her organs began shutting down, and...

We are sad, too. She may have been exhausted beyond her endurance.

Since she had a shell-less egg, she should have a calcium citrate once a day for the next several days until she's laying eggs with a normal shell. She may not lay another egg for a while. In that case, do the calcium for five days and then stop. If you ever see a hen standing still, not moving...

Leave her in the crate in the warm quiet place over night with the sugar water. You may add the Poultry Booster to it. Leaving her in the crate will allow you to monitor her behavior and her poop. If there is no more egg for her to expel, her poop will be normal. If there is still a blockage...

@tlcmurphy is correct. Never inject fluids into the vent of poultry. They are not like horses and dogs and people. Fluids injected into the vent can carry bacteria up into the reproductive tract. The patient should be placed in a crate on absorbent towels and put somewhere with dim lighting and...