egg bound

  1. debinhollister

    Egg broke inside older hen

    Last night I found that egg has broken inside hen. Her cloaca is not very distended so i had to wait until she was straining to enter. I used a curved hemostat. After about 2 hours of removing I couldnt feel anymore inside with tip of instrument I stopped to give us both a rest and observe...
  2. J

    Aftercare for egg bound hen that's not eating or drinking after 4 eggs removed!

    Hello Everyone! I'm hoping for some suggestions from those more experienced than myself. Yesterday afternoon I noticed one of my Ameraucana's was separate from the flock, had droppings along her backside, and her bottom looked like it was protruding. I put her in a dog kennel and brought her...
  3. UrbanHomesteadMama

    Soft Eggs, then middle of the night eggs and now hard and stuck

    Hi All, my cream legbar has had all sorts of egg problems. She began laying and everything was normal for about a month then the quality of the eggs declined. Most were soft or semi soft breaking when I took them out of the box. She then started having them get stuck. She had two soft eggs get...
  4. Emerald Rife

    My mallard duck is egg bound,

    And I can't seem to help her. Our mallard duck has been egg bound for about 3 days now! She has been bound before and I fixed (or so I thought) the problem. She went a month without getting bound a second time. She's been eating the same food that she's always eaten, when she can that is. She...
  5. OneEyedDawn

    R.I.P. Dottie my Wyandotte

    I have been putting off writing this post but my golden laced Wyandotte died two weeks ago from an internal egg laying problem. I am writing this post in case this info is helpful to anyone. I noticed Dottie didn't walk around much Friday and I thought I would keep an eye on her during the...
  6. UrbanHomesteadMama

    Soft/thin Shelled Eggs Overnight off the Roost

    Hi All, I’m a bit worried about my Olive egger. She was egg bound with a soft egg twice in the last couple months to the point where I gave her warm bath and brought her inside. Thankfully both times the rest came out. I added oyster shells in another dish to the coop (it’s in their food too)...
  7. 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/...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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...
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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...
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