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    Is it possible for a hen to be egg bound if they have laid an egg?

    Just a little update. Sadly our hen Nicole died a week gone Friday. After being up and down for a week, she was so poorly on friday, wouldn't eat at all, just kept sitting with her eyes closed and hiding her face in her wing. Her crop seemed fine but i suspect something had gone wrong inside...
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    Is it possible for a hen to be egg bound if they have laid an egg?

    Hi @Wyorp Rock . I hope you don't mind me keep coming back to you, but I'm pretty stuck. My girl is looking down today, hasn't touched her food, ate quite a lot yesterday and was pooping as normal, but like I said occasionally would just look really tired and sad and I also saw at one point she...
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    Is it possible for a hen to be egg bound if they have laid an egg?

    Thank you, yes I took a look at that article this morning, I've used it before with crop issues and it's really helpful. It's odd, last time I checked it, she had had some food and it felt squishy, more like sourcrop, but this morning was hard like an impaction. I don't know. I'm going to...
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    Is it possible for a hen to be egg bound if they have laid an egg?

    I checked her crop this morning and it didn't feel flat. Like a small ping pong ball in there. Hard. She's had some of her normal food this morning and seems in good spirits.
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    Is it possible for a hen to be egg bound if they have laid an egg?

    Thanks for your reply, it's much appreciated. I have calcium with vitamin d tabs (800mg) so will continue with those and will check her crop first thing. Fingers crossed! She's a real character, a beautiful bird.
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    Is it possible for a hen to be egg bound if they have laid an egg?

    I know this may seem like a silly question! My hen (roughly 4 years old) became (noticeably) I'll on Saturday evening. She was spending lots of time in the nest box, fluid dripping from her vent, visibly uncomfortable. I gave her an Epsom.salt bath and some water with nettex nutri drops in and...
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    Canesten (clotramizole) to treat sour crop

    Superb! This is exactly what I need. Thanks.
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    Canesten (clotramizole) to treat sour crop

    I'm fairly certain my hen has sour crop. She's not eating, yet her crop is squishy and hot. I've read that it can be treated with clotramizole (canesten is the brand name in the UK), but don't know how much to give. Can anyone she'd any light please? Thanks
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    Poorly hen

    They're hybrids. I'm fairly certain there is a sour crop issue going on, as well as potentially something bigger. I'd like to treat her with clotramizole (which we get in the UK under the name Canesten) but am unsure on how to work out a dose. Does anyone have any idea please? There are a lot of...
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    What can cause a squishy crop?

    This sounds exactly like what my hen is going through. This too follows the death of another hen (the boss) last week and this one should've been the next in line to take over. I know it's a long time since this thread was started but I'd you can let me how things worked out I'd appreciate it.
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    Poorly hen

    We've had them for two and a half years, presumably they were 12-18 months when we got them, so potentially they'll be 3.5-4 years' old. It's just such a turnaround though in the space of a week... Her and Nicole were always the naughty ones really, absolute gluttons, lovers of slugs and...
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    Poorly hen

    I have two ex commercial rescue hens - I had three up until last Monday when one was put to sleep, she had gone blind the week before and then developed ascites. Now one of my remaining two hens is also unwell. In some ways she is is still behaving normally as in she will show an interest in...
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    Hen has gone blind

    Sorry, predictive text changed it, it's Emeraid for omnivores. I was recommended it by someone at BHWT. I ended up not using it as I couldn't bear to force feed her when she was seemingly quite clearly suffering from something else that she would not really recover from (the ascites being a...
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    Hen has gone blind

    After spending the weekend in the house with us and literally not moving off an old plants tray filled with straw, I decided yesterday that the time had come for Racquel. She had eaten very little apart from a few berries and sunflower seeds, and was very swollen. Ascites seemed to be the most...
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    Hen has gone blind

    Thanks for this, JayKay98. I'm so pleased to hear your old girl is doing ok - long may she continue. I just think for Racquel there is a bit more going on now now. When I shake the food next to her she will have a few pecks and she'll eat but then she just turns her head and she may if I...
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    Hen has gone blind

    I think it may be, you know. She seems a bit unwieldy to pick up. What is the way forward if it's ascites?
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    Hen has gone blind

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    Hen has gone blind

    As you can see from the photo, she's holding her tail pretty high. I don't know if this is significant?
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    Hen has gone blind

    Ok we're about a week into this now. I force fed her some boost balls yesterday which are made with her usual ground up pellets and some oats and a little bit of water and just drop them into her beak. She also had a small amount of water. She's very happy to sit on my knee and just hunkers...
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    Hen has gone blind

    This is really interesting. I believe she's always been a decent layer - she could still be laying now, I have three hens but they're all rescues and lay intermittently - I never know who has laid positively, we just get one or two per day. She has a lovely plump red comb so it's possible she is...
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