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Yes, give a calcium each day until she's back to normal laying.

I keep towels handy to wrap up burrito style a chicken that is cantankerous and uncooperative. Or get someone to help you by holding the chicken so wings and feet are confined. I almost never have anyone to help me, so the towel trick really comes in handy. If I have a real fighter, I add an...

If she feels like free-ranging, there may not be anything wrong with her. If she's moving about freely, interested in flock activity, is eating and drinking, pooping normal poop, there may not be anything troubling her. Saying, "My chicken won't let me" is silly. Like saying a toddler won't let...

You do NOT need to crush a pill to give to a chicken. They will swallow it whole without any problem. Do it and watch it disappear without you needing to do CPR. There are three different forms of calcium - carbonate, gluconate, and citrate. Calcium citrate is the easiest of the three forms to...

Only an X-ray can tell us what's going on inside your hen. Something that is undigestible like styrofoam could be moving slowly through her system, and depending on where it is in the tract, it could cause different problems. In the intestines, it can interfere with absorption of calories and...

Earlier thread. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/jersey-giant-lethargy-symptoms-please-help.1499912/ But did you ever see her poop any of the styrofoam out? It may be forming a blockage that's interfering with laying and it could also be preventing absorption of nutrients. She may be a...

Has she been laying since she ate that styrofoam a few weeks ago? Has she ever had any issue with poor shell quality? Did you ever see the styrofoam show up in her poop? Unless a chicken eats so much that it clogs the digestive tract, it usually passed through. But sometimes it can form a...