Well I don't think she was egg bound in the sense I was thinking. She had 3 full size yolks but no shells and nothing blocking the way that I could tell... As I mentioned before, for the couple days before she died she would lay in the nest for quite some time, hop up and sing but not leave an...
This year just sucks. I lost a drake 2 weeks ago to hardware disease and a duck hen last night to a predator. My dad in August.
Sorry, just needed to vent. I feel like a horrible caretaker.
I'm too late. Had I not held her head up in the bath, she would have let herself drown. She is not responding at all to me placing bits if calcium in her mouth.
She is likely the one who had been laying on the nest, jumping up and doing the egg song but not leaving an egg. She never acted ill...
I have an eggbound hen with what feels like 3 eggs in there sideways. I am willing to do the bath and calcium, etc but am worried this will kill her no matter what. Cull or try treatment? I guess I'll just start treatment while i await opinions...