egg-bound

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    Hen walking like penguin

    Hello all, I have this hen and she is walking like a penguin and has a big bloated belly. I thought maybe she was egg-bound, since she also stopped laying, but she has been this way since early spring. She is still eating/drinking and pooping, still maintains her spot in the pecking order, just...
  2. -Shade-

    Egg-bound hen--Help!

    So I have a chicken that I noticed a few days ago was moving a little sluggish. She was acting overall normal, only a little slow. Today I went out to check on my hens while they were getting up in bed. And I opened the door just in time to see her attempt and fail to jump up on the roost. I...
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    Lethargic, possibly dying Andalusian - not eating or drinking

    Hello! One of our Andalusians is badly sick, but we don't know what's wrong. She has an appointment at an animal hospital tomorrow morning and, if possible, I'd like to keep her alive until then. She's been lethargic for about a week, and it's only gotten worse over time. She eats and drinks...
  4. HamletAndEggs

    Sussex spending hours in the nest box... no egg!

    Hey there! I am only 22 weeks into keeping my first flock of chickens, still a newbie! Five of the ten are laying and all are doing well. I wanted to find out who was laying the new, enormous, larger-than-commercial brown eggs, so we set up a coop cam (trail cam). Today I saw my Speckled Sussex...
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    Egg Bound/Broody/Something else?

    Thanks for your help! I have a chicken - just under 9 months old - that was taking a really long time in her nesting box. I didn't think anything of it at first. Sometimes some of my chickens will take hours to lay. Eventually, in the afternoon, I saw her walking around outside, and I went...
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    Healing an injured chicken

    I have a chicken (my favorite) who was attacked by the others when she got stuck in a cinder block. I have her isolated inside, and she has been healing for a week. I got past an egg-binding in the first two days, and I have been soaking her in Epsom salts, and applying neosporin to her wounds...
  7. LucyBW

    Sick hen behaving egg-bound (but maybe not)

    Having chickens is a wonderful new experience for me. I have 4 and LOVE them. They started laying 3 or 4 months ago. One of them is an Americauna and for the last couple of days she has been spending most of her time in a nesting box, even late in the afternoon and early evening. Which is very...
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