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I am not sure how "sticking my finger in to check" would tell me anything about whether she was getting egg-yolk peritonitis. But just to bring some closure here, my little chicken is doing fine. :-)

From what I have read, I understand that the risk of infection for chickens is if part of the egg gets into the abdominal cavity through the cloaca. Since the vent is superior to the cloaca, this could happen. The egg material then basically rots in the abdominal cavity and causes a bacterial...

The only one I could find at the feed store nearby was Duramycin -10 (tetracycline hydrochloride). I read this about it: As a class the tetracyclines generally act as broad-spectrum bacteriostatic agents inhibiting protein synthesis by reversibly binding to the 30S subunit of bacterial...

When searching the forums for information on egg-bound chickens I read that everyone recommends antibiotics if the egg breaks inside the chicken but no one has said which one. I have a chicken who was egg-bound but passing yolk, so I knew the egg was already broken. I was able to remove the...