New Chicken owners. We have three 10-month-old buff Orpingtons. They all started laying last November and have laid on a regular basis with no problems. Over the past couple weeks, we have found 2 random eggs outside of the nesting box. We have 3 nesting boxes, but the girls like to share the...
Hey all. I have a red star hen who went egg bound three weeks ago. She is perfectly happy now running around eating and drinking fine. Would anyone know when she would start laying again as she was our main layer.
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I have a two year old silkie who has had issues with egg binding for quite a while. Unfortunately, she lays very large eggs for her size and I have had to treat her twice before with warm soaks and calcium supplements to get her to pass the egg.
This time she was obviously in distress...
My lady is sitting with her tail down, walking kind of like a penguin. Some times she starts panting and can not stand up. She is still eating and I soaked her in warm water with Epsom salt. What could this be? Is it egg binding or something else?? Her belly behind her legs is warm and...
Hi I have a piking duck that's around 6 month old. Shes been laying soft shelled eggs and been experiencing some issues. First she got herself egg bound but she eventually passed the egg. Then she got a broken egg inside of her. We gave her amoxicillin just in case. And after a week she now has...
I have a Cayuga 4months old the last Friday she layed a little white egg no problem at all. Then Saturday she layed just membrane with a little bubble of an egg. She did struggle a tad with this one. She hasn't layed in 2 days and I feel an egg in her. She is acting completly normal and pooing...
3 yo RIR. Has been “off” for over a year. Goes through cycles of lethargy. Hasn’t laid in quite some time. Smallest in the flock, bottom of the pecking order. Has had sour crop before (3 months ago) and I was able to alleviate it by regurgitation. She immediately perked up, resumed normal...
This morning I discovered another egg-bound hen. She was still relatively happy and I think I may have had my very first success in saving one. The one a month ago wasn't so lucky. I think I lost 3 this year. That seems like a lot in a laying flock of about 30. Is it?
I don't know what the...
I posted about my Muscovy molting a couple weeks ago, but I can’t find that thread.
We adopted her. She couldn’t walk well and we assumed she was over weight and her legs were weak from her previous living conditions.
She has since lost weight and moves and runs well.
I noticed though, a couple...
Update 02/12/20 - I have updated the story with new content! I'm sure you all want to know how she is getting on, so I have posted further information, photos, x-rays and videos :)
Introduction (original article 07/11/20)
I have written this article to share with others after my 2.5 year old...
Hi all. So I have a 2 year old Lavender Orpington who was egg bound for about a day and a half. She passed the egg this morning. She seems more perky, but still seems lethargic and a bit under the weather. Her feathers are still puffed up and she looks cold, so I turned a heat lamp on for her...
Hi all! So I have a 2 year old Lavender Orpington who was displaying all the symptoms of egg binding. I took her to the vet and they did an x-ray that confirmed it. They gave her fluids and a calcium shot. I took her home and gave her an epsom salt bath. I was gently massaging the area and I was...
Hi all. So I have a 2-year-old Lavender Orpington named Phoebe. She’s a wonderful hen, super sweet, great layer, follows you around like a dog. I’ve never had any issues with her as far as laying goes. Today, she started showing all of the signs of egg binding, and so I took her to the vet. They...
So i have a 5 month old button quail, unsure of the sex but up until this point i always thought it was a male. Yesterday i noticed him/her fluffed up in the aviary so bought it in overnight. It had a small lump towards the back of the vent, so i thought it was egg bound. Put it on a heat pad...
Today one of my chickens has been walking with her tail to the ground like a penguin. She is still moving around but she is panting heavily. Is she egg bound? I am not sure when she last laid an egg. How should I treat her if she is egg bound? Should I soak her in Epsom salt water? Any advice...
So I've been reading a lot about egg binding and possible signs.
I have a chicken that laid her first egg Sunday, July 19. I didn't see her do it, but no one else was showing the signs and she's the only one I saw in the nest box. (The other laying hen already laid that day.) Monday she acted...
Need your help again friends. I took one of my quail out of the coop because she was acting egg bound; lethargic, straining to push something out, panting. But after some warm baths with Epsom salts she had some very large solid poops. Do you think she was just constipated or should I keep up...
Hey y'all! Had a real bad egg bind today, she was too far gone by the time I got to her and hadn't been acting peculiar the previous day. I ended up having to cull her after working with her all day. When I plucked her she had bruising between her legs underneath her vent. When I cleaned her it...
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As many of you already know Daisy is my almost 3 y.o rouen and a female.
She started laying since she was 6months old, she would lay a big egg everyday for 2years! Although she was so small and this made her weaker.. until a few months ago one day I found her sitting in a dark place alone...
I recently noticed that our 1 year old GLD--one of our sassiest/most vibrant--started going to bed with an empty crop. She was always on of the ones with almost a tennis ball-sized crop at night so I knew something was amiss. I monitored her for a few days and she was showing signs of some...