egg bound

Hi all, It's our first year raising chickens and we just lost one of our hens today, looking for some input on if I could have done anything better. I suspect it may have been from being egg bound but am not certain. She was around 8 months old had been laying nearly every day without issues...

So today i went outside to let my chickens out and my White Plymouth Rock is acting strange; she is kinda waddling, does not have much of an appetite, moves slowly, seams oblivious to surroundings, is puffed up, wings are out, and vent is bleeding (see pics). I'm thinking shes egg-bound. She was...

I have a three year old serama hen who seems to be egg bound but I’m not sure. She’s tiny for a serama, not micro but definitely not a larger sized serama. She’s been looking poorly for a while now. About a month ago I noticed she had runny green poo with mucus, looked lethargic (tail down...

Hello everyone! This is my first post ever although I have been referencing this site since I first started raising chickens and ducks a year ago. What a VALUABLE resource- so thank you all! My one year old RIR hen Rocky is having some issues laying. She stopped for winter but has recently...

My chicken, Labird, was showing signs of her being egg bound 2 days ago. At 4 years old and a consistent layer of large thin shelled eggs it brought no surprise. She was puffed up, sick looking, and her vent seemed to be working hard to push out an egg. I brought her into the garage with some...

Hoping you might be able to help me figure out what might be going on with my silver spangled hamburg hen. She has been walking penguin like for about a week. This happened all of a sudden however a few days previous I noticed some matting of poop. No other symptoms. I gave her a warm...

I should know exactly what's wrong & what to do, but maybe 2nd opinions to reassure me. Noticed my hen in the nest acting like she was laying an egg.... I don't know if she laid today already or not bc there are several hens in her pen... Anyways, up on further inspection I see her backside has...

My hen has a swollen abdomen. It’s warm to the touch and feels kind of hard. I’ve checked to see if I can feel an egg but I can’t. I’ve also soaked her in warm water. She’s been like this for almost a week now. What can I do for her??

Hi all! My sweet hen has been having recurring problems with laying eggs and our vet recommended that she get a Salpingectomy(chicken hysterectomy). Unfortunately I don’t have the money($3500) to get this surgery for her right now:( I am posting on here because I wonder if maybe someone has had...

Poor Darla our EE is having a rough go of it. She's a new layer, can't figure out how to use the boxes, is getting her eggs eaten, and now is the target of bullying. She's also seemed to have gotten depressed, or worse, is under the weather. Original thread is here...

Hello, Last night we took a few of our girls to a pen in the basement to give them a reprieve from the heat. Early the next morning, we found that one of them, our EE "Darla," had laid her first egg. It was small but strong and normal-looking (we know it was hers because the other two lay brown...

She has been acting lethargic and waddling around, I thought she might be egg bound. I just don’t know what’s wrong. Here’s some pictures of what comes out when I was checking her. Warning Gross Why does it seem like there are three different openings, I treated a hen with a prolapsed vent...

I am worried about my (Olive Egger) hen, of around 25 weeks old. She has not yet started laying but I think she may have a collapsed vent. Today, I noticed that she was trying to poop, but nothing came out. Then I saw something pinky (almost like an intestine) come out and then pop back in a...

I have 4 hens. Two are 3.5 years old (Leghorn and Rhode Island Red) and two are just 20 weeks. Both the older hens moulted late last year/early this year and went off the lay. The leghorn started laying again about a month ago and the Rhode Island Red started squatting and checking out nest...

One of my Rhode Island Reds (4yo) isn't well — she is squatting and lethargic and won't leave the coop for the run, won't eat or drink. It's been 2 days. I suspected she's egg bound, and brought her in for a warm water bath, and have her crated in the house. She's standing up like a turkey...

My 1 1/2 year old barred rock became suddenly ill today. Lethargic, unable to walk or stand for a period, possible fever and with abdomen distended. While I was running the warm water to treat for egg bound, I placed her in the nest where she passed an egg. Her crop was also watery, squishy and...

We have one hen who's a bit older than all the other hens. She's our only Ameraucana chicken, so we can tell when she's laying, and we figure she's pretty much done laying since it's been over a month since she's laid an egg (which was very small in size) and she rarely lays at all anymore...

My leghorn is 7 months old and was laying great initially then she stopped randomly after switching her to layers feed. I have always had oyster shells available to my flock. She is eating and drinking but last week and again today I have had to gently pull out a broken egg out of her vent. She...

I have six 2 year old white leghorns. Last month we have had a few issues with what we believe is vent prolapse in one, then infections in a couple others. I have been applying monistat to all to clean up any infections. A week ago, one of the girls was bleeding from her vent, so I cleaned...

So I've attached a few photos of what appears to egg white and yolk. No shells. I have 3 girls that could be the culprits but I cant figure put which on because they are all acting 100% normal. They all laid eggs this morning with very hard shells. They have plenty of calcium in their diet, no...