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We may be looking at one of the avian viruses, probably avian leucosis. It often causes lameness, but it's attacking the organs as well. If this progresses to her becoming too weak to eat or hold her head up, and her poop is watery diarrhea, and she loses a lot of weight, and she keeps getting...

Is she too weak to eat? If so you may need to tube feed once or twice to get enough food into her to give her strength to eat. You can call your vet and ask them to sell you a tubing kit. It shouldn't cost but a few dollars. I will instruct you how to do it.

If she is drinking well, you do not need to syringe fluids. She has probably rewarmed to normal body temp by now. Watch her comb and wattles.If they turn bright cherry red instead of the normal dusky red, then she's becoming too warm.

To treat hypothermia, you need to apply heat externally and internally. She needs her blood glucose elevated to revive her. That means she needs the infusion of sugar, one teaspoon to one cup of warm water, directly into her body. Use the oral syringe, hold her and pry open her beak. Insert the...

Has it been freezing? Could she have hypothermia? If very cold temperatures preceded her symptoms, then you must syringe the warm sugar water plus a pinch of salt and baking soda into her or she could die. Get an oral syringe and do it like this photo to avoid aspirating her. Also, you must warm...

Do you know how to find the crop? It's the sack on the chest wall below the neck. My article explains how to check for various crop disorders and how to treat when you identify one...

Corn isn't really much of a cure for anything. Internet is full of useless advice. Have you checked your hen's crop? If she has a full crop from impaction or yeast infection, she can starve. That can make her too weak to move. Her history of soft shell eggs could mean she is egg bound. That...