egg bound

  1. S

    Help with our bantam — Nothing is working

    Hi there, Never posted on here before so forgive me if I'm not doing this correctly. We have a polish bantam hen that has been a consistently good layer (this is her first year laying), very energetic, very spunky, and our favorite chicken. A few days ago, we found her before night chores...
  2. Barredrocker99

    I think my barred rock is dying, please help

    Hello! I desperately need help. I have a Barred Rock that I believe is laying internally, and I don’t know what to do. I discovered she wasn’t doing well when I picked her up and her abdomen was as hard as a softball. I tried to feel around in her vent, and I’m honestly not sure what I felt. The...
  3. Barredrocker99

    Egg mites?? Egg bound hen??

    Hello all. Recently I posted about a leghorn I had who was exhibiting signs of being egg bound, and was laying soft shelled eggs. After an epsom salt bath and some calcium, she was laying eggs again and is back to her usual self. Another one of my chickens, a BR, is now seeming quite bound up...
  4. palindrome_7

    silkie troubles

    Hi there, This week my silkies were totally fine, and now they are both dead. One dropped down out of the blue yesterday, and this morning I found the other one dead. They have been so healthy, so idk what's going on. The only thing I did differently was added a little ACV to their water and...
  5. U

    Egg stuck in Cloaca/Cloaca prolapse!? Please help!

    I am looking after my parents chickens while they are away for a few days and noticed that one of them seemed very lethargic and had a pale comb. When I inspected her she had a very dirty arse and very obviously has an egg bound in her Cloaca. I've given her a bath and cleaned around her vent as...
  6. i_only_listen_to_dgd

    Egg Bound Hen???? URGENT

    I found one of my hens (I have 7 total) just an hour ago walking funny with her tail down. My family have raised hens before and one of our hens from years ago had seemingly been egg bound but we didn't know how bad this was and she died from it. When I saw this hen acting like this I...
  7. A

    Egg bound+prolapse=I'm not sure what to do?

    Hello, long time reader, first time poster. I need help. I think, no i know she's egg bound and prolapse, i just don't know what I'm looking at and now she's not doing well at all. How can I help her? Can I even help her? Here's the timeline so far: 2 mornings ago(Friday morning) i noticed my...
  8. C

    CHICKEN WALKING UPRIGHT AND STRUGGLING PLEASE HELP

    hi one of my beautiful isa brown rescue hens who I have had for about 18 months has been progressively getting worse all week for the last 5 days she has been walking upright like a penguin off balance with her upper legs sticking out the side. she has a pooey bum as well she inst particularly...
  9. B

    Egg bound budgie with deflated egg needing emergency help

    Hi, I was hoping for some help or some advice as I cannot get any help from local vets, even avian vets are either far too far away to take her or never have appointments even for emergencies. I have a 7 year old budgie named Lemon. She had never laid eggs before but her sister had laid...
  10. Anime2lover

    Tumor or egg bound

    One of our silkies has had a hard lump in her abdomen since last night. We figured it was egg bound so we tried the suggested treatment to free her of it, but got nothing. We tried sticking a q-tip with natural lubricant, olive oil and still nothing. So my mom carefully stuck her finger in with...
  11. Hanusaur

    Emergency!!! Can’t tell if she is egg bound?? Warning: picture of chicken vent

    I found her acting weird in the side yard. Looks like she’s trying to lay an egg. I moved her to the coop initially, hoping she would lay there. But she moved all the way back to the side yard and back to the same spot you can see in the picture. She had energy this morning, but her general...
  12. A

    Help, my hen is sick.

    If anyone has any advice, I would really appreciate it. Monday evening, we noticed one of our six 7-month-old Dorkings acting really strange. Isolating, moving in slow motion, not really foraging when free ranging. Before they went in for the night, I offered some wheat berries and she ate a...
  13. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Soft shell membrane hanging from vent - Egg Bound

    I've had suspected internal layer--2.5 y/o Barred Rock--that has a vet appointment Friday. She'd been doing well, though I'd noticed some hard swelling around her vent/lower abdomen, and that she spends time in the nesting box as if she's laying (but no egg). This all is on the tail of weird...
  14. Blue Raptor

    Egg Bound hen

    Crowe my black copper sex-link is egg bound, I felt her abdomen and I felt an egg in there. I didn’t massage it in case it broke and she has access to calcium. I soaked her and put her on a towel in a cage in the dark (not total) so that she’ll hopefully pass the egg. I know that if she doesn’t...
  15. T

    Egg bound, vent gleet, or??

    Advice appreciated! My chicken seemed fine then suddenly I noticed today her crop and under her vent were bulging. Either I didn’t notice anything sooner or it came on suddenly. It looks like her feathers are missing or just spread out a bit from the bulging, she has green/yellow diarrhea and...
  16. 6

    Egg Binding Cures: Making sure I tried everything

    Yesterday one of my hens had an impacted crop. I dealt with it like I usually do, and have been able to cure them every time. That same day, around 12 pm, she began to act like herself and went into the hen house to lay...However, she did not lay. Later that evening she began to sit around. I...
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  17. MamaChick70

    Prolapse or Egg bound? heeeeeelp

    I can use your help. I have had chickens for about 1year now and have not come across this. I have 10 chickens. My older girls are a black and red sex link. I had them since 6-19-20. I have lost one black sex link 3 days ago I think for being eggbound she was in the nesting box and I was...
  18. OrlandoMama

    Egg song before an egg?

    My girls are 20weeks and 4 days and just last week I had at least one of them start laying but I think at least two now(light brahma and one of my rhode island reds). Both of their hips/bone structures were of a laying hen and wide enough and their wattles are super bright red. I heard one of...
  19. S

    New to chickens and laying behaviours

    Hi everyone, I’m new to having chickens and have found this forum so useful! I have two pekin bantams and two silkies. Currently one of the bantams is broody and occupying the eglu go nest most of the day (until we turf her out to eat and drink!). The other bantam seems happy to squeeze in...
  20. J

    Hen won’t lay after egg bound

    Found egg 3/4 out. Cloaca dried and stuck to egg. Tried soaking and lube. Couldn’t get egg to loosen and then it broke. Cloaca had 2.mm of tissue still attached to egg pieces. Cut them out. She healed up great in two days. Perfectly normal but no eggs since ( more than a month ago). Will she...
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