- Jul 25, 2009
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Hello! I've been lurking around this site gleaning much useful information, and now I actually have something to post about..
I noticed about an hour ago that one of my 4 barnyard girls was looking a little droopy (low wings, head pulled in, standing alone in the corner) and thought she might have become egg bound like her sister had this week. Right then I heard a little "plop!" and saw a soft egg had just fallen out of her, and there was a small glob of deep red gelled stuff that looks like blood with firm, small, slug-shaped globs within that! The entire red spot is about 2-3" in diameter.
Anyone seen this before? I tried searching on here but am on a slow connection that kicks me off often. I can take a picture (but would rather not as it's raining... and I figured someone probably know what this is!
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Right after she evacuated this stuff, she perked right up and joined the rest of the gang over at the feed bowl. She's been running around like her usual self since.
She's a red sex-link, around 7mths, a bit smaller than the other 3 birds, but she lays an egg almost every day. They came from a farm last month and they are the only chickeys here. Her comb was pale today and she sat on the nest this morning for quite a while. No signs of trauma or injury, she was fine yesterday and this morning.
There have been no changes in the coop lately... The four of them live luxuriously in a 4x8' coop bed with sawdust (usually shavings, but couldn't get them this week - changed 4 days ago) and 10x10 outdoor enclosure, as well as a 5x10' run on wheels that they go in while I'm home (they were in said wheely run at the time of this Egg Incident). They range in clover when the dog isn't 'ranging' herself. Right now they're getting veggie mash, oyester shells, leftovers, and lots of sparkling clean water.
She's been eating and drinking okay, and earlier today was eating peas out of my hand, no problems. Haven't seen her poop, but someone had one massive pass of runny, slightly green-ish poop this morning. Though, it was raining yesterday, and I hung a head of lettuce in the coop so they wouldn't get bored ... = green diarrhea?
I haven't given her anything in terms of treatment, as she seemed fine right after the egg/red glob was passed.
Thanks for reading through this novel, any info is helpful.
I noticed about an hour ago that one of my 4 barnyard girls was looking a little droopy (low wings, head pulled in, standing alone in the corner) and thought she might have become egg bound like her sister had this week. Right then I heard a little "plop!" and saw a soft egg had just fallen out of her, and there was a small glob of deep red gelled stuff that looks like blood with firm, small, slug-shaped globs within that! The entire red spot is about 2-3" in diameter.
Anyone seen this before? I tried searching on here but am on a slow connection that kicks me off often. I can take a picture (but would rather not as it's raining... and I figured someone probably know what this is!
Right after she evacuated this stuff, she perked right up and joined the rest of the gang over at the feed bowl. She's been running around like her usual self since.
She's a red sex-link, around 7mths, a bit smaller than the other 3 birds, but she lays an egg almost every day. They came from a farm last month and they are the only chickeys here. Her comb was pale today and she sat on the nest this morning for quite a while. No signs of trauma or injury, she was fine yesterday and this morning.
There have been no changes in the coop lately... The four of them live luxuriously in a 4x8' coop bed with sawdust (usually shavings, but couldn't get them this week - changed 4 days ago) and 10x10 outdoor enclosure, as well as a 5x10' run on wheels that they go in while I'm home (they were in said wheely run at the time of this Egg Incident). They range in clover when the dog isn't 'ranging' herself. Right now they're getting veggie mash, oyester shells, leftovers, and lots of sparkling clean water.
She's been eating and drinking okay, and earlier today was eating peas out of my hand, no problems. Haven't seen her poop, but someone had one massive pass of runny, slightly green-ish poop this morning. Though, it was raining yesterday, and I hung a head of lettuce in the coop so they wouldn't get bored ... = green diarrhea?
I haven't given her anything in terms of treatment, as she seemed fine right after the egg/red glob was passed.
Thanks for reading through this novel, any info is helpful.