1.5 year old Brahma hen passed egg white from vent.

[ckuehn]

Jean harlow, my year old brahma hen had trouble with a lash egg 6 months ago and I administered antibiotics (250 MG Cephalexin 2x a day for 7 days). She had no issues after that until today. She seemed kind of droopy and not herself (just today) and was standing in front of me and looked like she was having egg laying contractions. Clear egg white looking fluid came out of her. There was no shell and no yolk. I KNOW I have seen a post on this issue and what I should do, but I didn't save it like I usually do. So...I gave her an epsom salt soak, 1000 mg of calcium and loxicom. I have her in a crate with a dog potty pad to see if she passes anything else. How can I know if she will need antibiotics? Is there anything else I should be looking for? Her crop seems good-like she has been eating., I will check it in the morning.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Jean harlow, my year old brahma hen had trouble with a lash egg 6 months ago and I administered antibiotics (250 MG Cephalexin 2x a day for 7 days). She had no issues after that until today. She seemed kind of droopy and not herself (just today) and was standing in front of me and looked like she was having egg laying contractions. Clear egg white looking fluid came out of her. There was no shell and no yolk. I KNOW I have seen a post on this issue and what I should do, but I didn't save it like I usually do. So...I gave her an epsom salt soak, 1000 mg of calcium and loxicom. I have her in a crate with a dog potty pad to see if she passes anything else. How can I know if she will need antibiotics? Is there anything else I should be looking for? Her crop seems good-like she has been eating., I will check it in the morning.

Hopefully she will be able to expel a shell membrane.

I'd keep up with the Calcium for several days.

 

[ckuehn]

Hopefully she will be able to expel a shell membrane.

I'd keep up with the Calcium for several days.

Soft eggshell this morning and her crop was empty. I have another hen with shells so thin you can't even pick them up. They get oyster shells and layer feed but she doesn't seem to be absorbing the calcium. I'm not exactly sure which one she is but I think she is one of the two-year-old legbars. Is there anything else I can do for her? I gave two of them 3 days of extra calcium, but it didn't seem to affect anything. I have others who lay eggs so hard you can almost bounce them on the pavement. I have been doing a lot of research and am coming up with nothing but the old standard "offer them oyster shells/calcium". She's obviously not helping herself or she is eating it and it isn't absorbing.

 

[ChicNmom]

Soft eggshell this morning and her crop was empty. I have another hen with shells so thin you can't even pick them up. They get oyster shells and layer feed but she doesn't seem to be absorbing the calcium. I'm not exactly sure which one she is but I think she is one of the two-year-old legbars. Is there anything else I can do for her? I gave two of them 3 days of extra calcium, but it didn't seem to affect anything. I have others who lay eggs so hard you can almost bounce them on the pavement. I have been doing a lot of research and am coming up with nothing but the old standard "offer them oyster shells/calcium". She's obviously not helping herself or she is eating it and it isn't absorbing.

I give the calcium directly in their beak for at least a week if I have one with thin shells. Human calcium citrate with vitamin d is most easily absorbed.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Soft eggshell this morning and her crop was empty. I have another hen with shells so thin you can't even pick them up. They get oyster shells and layer feed but she doesn't seem to be absorbing the calcium. I'm not exactly sure which one she is but I think she is one of the two-year-old legbars. Is there anything else I can do for her? I gave two of them 3 days of extra calcium, but it didn't seem to affect anything. I have others who lay eggs so hard you can almost bounce them on the pavement. I have been doing a lot of research and am coming up with nothing but the old standard "offer them oyster shells/calcium". She's obviously not helping herself or she is eating it and it isn't absorbing.

You are giving Calcium Citrate+D3 orally daily correct?

If possible, take a sampling of their poop to your vet and have a fecal float to rule out worms. Look them over for lice/mites.
Parasites can affect production as well.

 

[ckuehn]

You are giving Calcium Citrate+D3 orally daily correct?

If possible, take a sampling of their poop to your vet and have a fecal float to rule out worms. Look them over for lice/mites.
Parasites can affect production as well.

I found roundworms in someone's poop today so that mystery is solved. I am administering Safeguard Aquasol for 5 days as per instructions and will repeat. I am giving Calcium citrate + D3 1000 mg in the morning.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I found roundworms in someone's poop today so that mystery is solved. I am administering Safeguard Aquasol for 5 days as per instructions and will repeat. I am giving Calcium citrate + D3 1000 mg in the morning.

Oh good, hopefully this will help.

 

[ckuehn]

Oh good, hopefully this will help.

I hate using the water soluble stuff and not knowing how much they are getting, but I don't like the egg withdrawal of the others and I don't want to over medicate. I treated one hen for scaly leg mites a few months ago with Ivermectin. She should be clear from that?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I hate using the water soluble stuff and not knowing how much they are getting, but I don't like the egg withdrawal of the others and I don't want to over medicate. I treated one hen for scaly leg mites a few months ago with Ivermectin. She should be clear from that?

If it's been a few months since you treated with Ivermectin, then yes.