sayccrn
Songster
She keeps getting eggbound. Had an extremely hard time a few weeks ago. She had two eggs blocked. I managed to get her fixed, and had an infection for which I tried Tylan. It worked and she slowly got better. She hasn't laid for about 3 weeks.
But her first egg got bound again, I managed to give her some calcium and she expelled it under her roost in the morning. I am not sure, but I think she just doesn't like any calcium supplements. She won't eat the oyster shells, I tried eggshells, (how much of those do I even feed her?) I have an expensive calcium powder for their water, so she's getting some. (problem with that is, I have new chicks, so once I put them in with my old gals, she'll just have the oyster shells) I also am trying a little lime in their food. (How much of that too? I know that's controversial, but I am at a loss here.) And alfalfa cubes, I think she picks on that. (Again, how much?) Is there anything else I can do.
Oh I also give her tons of grubbies, cuz she loves those and that's the only thing I know she will eat. (That's actually how I know she's blocked again, she won't eat them.) Is there something else I can try for her? Or do you all think she's got something else wrong with her. I would like her to stay alive long enough to get her new sisters out in the coop, cuz I don't want my other old gal all alone. Any ideas?
Please help, this is my first flock, so I have no experience with older hens. We've had a hard summer, and lost 3 of various things. Mostly wet pox. For which I saved one, and the other died from one thing after another until she died from organ failure.
Any ideas, please? These are the pictures when she had two eggs blocked. She ate the second one.
But her first egg got bound again, I managed to give her some calcium and she expelled it under her roost in the morning. I am not sure, but I think she just doesn't like any calcium supplements. She won't eat the oyster shells, I tried eggshells, (how much of those do I even feed her?) I have an expensive calcium powder for their water, so she's getting some. (problem with that is, I have new chicks, so once I put them in with my old gals, she'll just have the oyster shells) I also am trying a little lime in their food. (How much of that too? I know that's controversial, but I am at a loss here.) And alfalfa cubes, I think she picks on that. (Again, how much?) Is there anything else I can do.
Oh I also give her tons of grubbies, cuz she loves those and that's the only thing I know she will eat. (That's actually how I know she's blocked again, she won't eat them.) Is there something else I can try for her? Or do you all think she's got something else wrong with her. I would like her to stay alive long enough to get her new sisters out in the coop, cuz I don't want my other old gal all alone. Any ideas?
Please help, this is my first flock, so I have no experience with older hens. We've had a hard summer, and lost 3 of various things. Mostly wet pox. For which I saved one, and the other died from one thing after another until she died from organ failure.
Any ideas, please? These are the pictures when she had two eggs blocked. She ate the second one.