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  1. U

    Help! Duck health emergency question

    We opened our coop yesterday to one of our two female ducks having died overnight. We thought she may have been egg bound as she had laid a soft egg 2 afternoons before and there’s one egg every morning so hard to tell who lays it. Recently the females have been loosing feathers on their back/...
  2. danalw

    Broody? or something worse?

    Hello everyone, I am seeking some advice. So I have a hen that has been sitting in her den box on all the other ladies eggs. She is loosing weight she has not laid an egg in over a month. If i lift her out of the box she will go scratch around and eat and drink for a bit but she gets right back...
  3. D

    My chicken had a large egg removed by the vet, and she’s not doing well.

    My 8 month old ameraucana chicken had an egg removed at the vet on Monday. The vet had to remove the yolk and crack the egg, because it was too large to pass. Now my chicken, Madge is continually contracting, and trying to push the remaining shell out. This has been going on since the...
  4. 3clucks

    Should I be worried about these eggs?

    In the past week I have had two soft shell eggs from two different hens, one is an Ameraucana just under a year (started laying around 9 months) and a silkie or silkie mix (not sure who of these two laid it) the silkie is a little over a year and the silkie mix is just under a year. I have never...
  5. E

    Hen that lays massive eggs acts slowish

    Hi, I have a hen that I think lays massive double yolkers every few days and has been acting sluggish. Her crop feels fine, not symptoms in eyes. Vaccinated for Mareaks and the thing with the C that I always forget, and is about 2 years old. She closes her eyes sometimes in the sun, goes in...
  6. JessWolo

    Clear liquid from vent

    Hi all! I’m hoping I can get some answers and insight from more experienced duck owners. I have 4 runner girls, about 5 months old. 2 of them just started laying this week (not sure which 2). As of today, I noticed one of my girls just not acting herself. Kind of going off on her own, not...
  7. Animal family

    Egg bound??

    This morning Quackers isn’t herself. She is quit and wants to be alone. She has had several poops that worry me, they are regular except it looks like egg white with a little blood, in addition to digested food. I felt around and didn’t feel an egg, but I’m nit sure I’d know what I was...
  8. H

    Can my hen be broody AND egg bound?

    First I want to thank all of you for being here! You have no idea how much I've learned from this site. We've only had our chickens for about ten months and so far everything has been going great mostly due to the wealth of information I have found on this site. Our 10 month old Buff orp...
  9. HuskerHens18

    Badly egg bound hen!

    Long time no see, BYC! I'm having an awful situation, one of my favorite hens I believe is terribly egg bound. I have no experience in egg binding, the only hen that had it died without symptoms last year. Its been so cold I try to keep the door shut, so I race in, feed/water, race out. Which...
  10. 3speckled3

    Thought she was egg bound, now I'm not so sure

    I have this 2 year old silkie hen that, until now, I was pretty sure she was egg bound. She has never had a problem laying eggs until recently when the cold weather really hit. I figured it was stress from the cold and set up the heat lamps for the pens. Well, 2 days ago at about 7:15, I went...
  11. Sire12

    Hen is badly egg bound or something similar please help

    I didn't know what it was until yesterday but she had been showing symptoms for a few days before that, then when I realised what it was I learned what to do I brought her inside and let her nest in a basin with shavings, and gave her the bath with epsom salts, I didn't have any calcium pills...
  12. N

    Hen Is Acting Strange

    We have had two cases of egg bound chickens in the two years of having them, but this feels different. It could be another matter, but I want to be sure. This morning, my little brother brought to attention the fact that one of our girls was acting off. She was puffed up like she was egg bound...
  13. Skip2mylou79

    My Ninja/Sea chickens have EYP??!!

    I have been raising chickens for 9 years. I currently have 9 “ninja/Sea” chickens (I usually keep 12, but lost 3 earlier this year from old age). I’m a huge Seattle Seahawks football fan,(Hense the Sea-Chickens) annnnnd, our chickens seem to escape (like little ninjas) any type of fencing- so...
  14. Chicks 'n ducks

    HELP! Silkie can't stand up!

    Help! my 9 month old hen, silvie, has seemed withdrawn and lethargic for a while now. I put her in a bin with shavings and my brinsea ecoglow on max height. she was eating and drinking vigorously when I have fed her. I thought she might be egg bound and I soaked her in an epsom salt bath and...
  15. B

    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...
  16. Larouxbestfan

    My hen has pooped out 2 of these today. Should I be worried!?

    My hen has been weak and lethargic for the last 3 or 4 days. She either lays on her side in one spot all day, or she'll stand up like a penguin. I found her outside the coop a couple days ago, leaning against a cinder block, and she's been in my room ever since. She spent her entire day...
  17. S

    Egg bound quail maybe?

    I see this quail, 7 weeks old, no eggs, there is a lump thingy in the bottom part of her body closest to the ground that pulsates, could be an egg, she always squats and might be trying to lay an egg, is she egg bound?
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  18. Butterflyzza

    Recovery after hen has been egg bound

    Hi! I’m new to the group. My family and I bought 4 baby chicks 6 months ago and we have just fallen in love with them. Our one hen Chickaletta is very sick. I’m pretty sure she was egg bound. I looked up similar issues and how to resolve them in this site and they truly helped. I gave her an...
  19. Holden Parris

    Egg bound hen

    I have a egg bound hen, she’s been acting weird since Thursday but it wasn’t until today that I realized that was why. Her abdomen is really hard, and she’s very lethargic and doesn’t really eat or drink. I read about soaking her in warm water and giving her some extra calcium and her own dark...
  20. dragonflycat

    Fox attacked a hen yesterday - now she's egg bound please help!

    Yesterday afternoon our guinea hens and peacocks alerted me to a big problem in the yard; I ran out screaming and a fox took off but not before trying to grab a chicken. When I saw her lying on the ground I picked her up. At first she tried to fight me (probably thought I was the fox trying to...
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