eggbound

Hello. So my mother rents out a home thats on a farm and our landlord has several laying hens. I only visit every other weekend and since I have several birds of my own I enjoy hanging out with the other flock. Ive noticed most of her hens have bare butts with blackened feathers around it which...

Hi, I have a production red, age 3 or 4, who I'm pretty confident is eggbound. Ive had this before with her several times 2/3 years ago which she passed shortly after soaking her in basin of warm water. Today however this method seems to have not worked despite having soaked for nearly 40 mins...

Hello! First of all, there is no vet in my area who will treat chickens. I am currently waiting for a chicken vet to answer my question I posed on Just Answer. I have a 1 year old Easter Egger that has been lethargic for 4 days. Two weeks ago several birds in my flock of 20 came down with a...

I have a black sexlink hen that is a little over a year old. She lays eggs every day. I few days ago she stopped and she has since looked a little sickly, wabbling, separating herself, and has her tail down. I brought her in and felt inside her vent and i didnt feel an egg but rather a strand of...

My Ameraucana has seemed to be eggbound since yesterday, but also has other symptoms. She sits with her tail faced downwardsin a squat, like she's trying to push it out all the time. Her poop is lime green and small. Since she is eggbound, I think that might be why her poops are small, but also...

I'm on my last hope here. I have an Americauna who started walking really slow then not coming out of coop and preferred to sit in nesting box. That was about 4 days ago. She's had this kind of not feeling great behavior before and when we gave her Nutri-drench in water a couple days, she was...

Hi BYC, After researching the symptoms my bantam chicken had, I think she might be eggbound. For a couple of days she’s been waddling around, dragging her tail and she can’t stand up correctly. She uses her wings to stabilize her but she can’t balance. She waddles around for a bit but then stops...

How do you cure an eggbound hen?

So I've had my sick chicken indoors for a few days now since I first noticed her walking around like a penguin. I've had this problem with other chickens before and usually a good soak in the washbin with epsom salts does the trick. So far she's had about 4 soaks each a half hour long with me...

Hello, one of my hens stomach is extremely bloated, it kind of feels like it may be filled with fluid. She is a little unsteady and will not walk much. She is constantly pumping her tail but is able to poop with no problem. I checked her vent to feel for an egg but I didn’t feel one. I...

Hope this question isn't redundant, and TIA! One of my hens started laying on the 4th of July and has been laying one or two eggs daily since then (the 2x a day eggs have been soft shelled and layed outside of the nesting box). Anywho, she's gotten into the habit of laying the "normal" eggs...

I have a 2 year old chicken who just started limping or raising her leg and breathing with her mouth open. She got up on the roost tonight but was breathing with her mouth open and gave a little cough (but just one). When I noticed the limping I saw that her backside was pulsing - very...

I have been looking on the forums to see if I can find something that matches the symptoms my 2 year old Australorp, Hildy, is experiencing. She has had shell-less eggs in the past, but they were not that common. Last week, when I picked her up to greet her, a soft egg flew out of her vent. I...

It started about a month ago when one of my four chickens became egg bound. This was my first time dealing with this and after making sure she was we put her in an enclosure when the egg pooped out about an hour later. The next day she seemed fine and I put her back, but later that night she...

Hello all, my 1 year old ISA Brown hen, Chuck, has been eggbound for 48 hours now. I tried soaks, lubricants. I got her to drink a lot of water and eat with calcium, to give her strength. She lays huge eggs, and I had a feeling this one was misshapen or broken by the feel of it. I really love...

My hen has been very lethargic every since I got her. HAsn't been laying eggs, pooping or eating. I gave her some calcium tablets and a warm bath but I'm running out of ideas, please help.

EMERGENCY :My favourite girl silky (who is a warren hybrid) would not come out of the coop this morning. I have done all of the proper procedures of egg bound (check with lubricated gloved finger etc) and I can not find an egg or egg shells anywhere. She doesn't want to move, drink or poop and...

my 1 year old silkie started laying in December and was laying consistently. She was still on the freedom chick starter crumble food. When that ran out we switched her to a layer pellet food. This was 2 weeks ago. About a week later she wasn’t laying and just sat in her nesting box consistently...

Managed to go 10 years without having one but I have an eggbound hen. She is currently soaking in warm water. She had a large amount of poop around her vent and her crop is empty. I can not feel an egg in her vent but her abdomen feels enlarged and she is doing the classic penguin walk. I know...

I need some help solving an egg mystery... My Silver Salmon Marans seems to not be laying, and I can't figure out what is going on. Here is her history: Day 1, March 21 - she laid her very first egg, in the nesting box like a good girl! Day 2 - she spent time in the nesting box, then came out...