Advice for hen's nare

[Eggcessive]

Oyster shell is pretty much limestone, so it doesn’t go bad if in a container. My hens have always preferred to eat chopped egg shells, but I still keep the oyster shell out for them. Even with all that, there may be a couple who still will have the thin shells.

I had a hen a couple of years ago who laid an XL hard egg every day. She was only 1 1/2, and had raised a clutch of chicks. She had never molted, but was attacked in out driveway by a neighbor’s friendly dog who was not used to chickens. She was nearly dead, lost most feathers, was cut and scraped, and could not stand for a day or two. Afterward, she recovered, molted, but never again laid an egg with a hard shell. Most were shell-less or very thin shelled. Because of her thin eggs, I feel like she developed egg yolk peritonitis and died last year, possibly from some breaking inside.

 

[Sqhomestead]

Oyster shell is pretty much limestone, so it doesn’t go bad if in a container. My hens have always preferred to eat chopped egg shells, but I still keep the oyster shell out for them. Even with all that, there may be a couple who still will have the thin shells.

I had a hen a couple of years ago who laid an XL hard egg every day. She was only 1 1/2, and had raised a clutch of chicks. She had never molted, but was attacked in out driveway by a neighbor’s friendly dog who was not used to chickens. She was nearly dead, lost most feathers, was cut and scraped, and could not stand for a day or two. Afterward, she recovered, molted, but never again laid an egg with a hard shell. Most were shell-less or very thin shelled. Because of her thin eggs, I feel like she developed egg yolk peritonitis and died last year, possibly from some breaking inside.

I'm really sorry to hear that about your hen

 

[Eggcessive]

Thank you. She was always the most inquisitive active hen always exploring other yards, jumping fences etc. That is what got her in trouble. She had even crossed the road to lay her eggs in our old corn crib, and then sat on them for 3 weeks to hatch them. We thought she had been killed, but one day she brought her 7 little chickens back to the coop.

 

[Sqhomestead]

Thank you. She was always the most inquisitive active hen always exploring other yards, jumping fences etc. That is what got her in trouble. She had even crossed the road to lay her eggs in our old corn crib, and then sat on them for 3 weeks to hatch them. We thought she had been killed, but one day she brought her 7 little chickens back to the coop.

 

[Sqhomestead]

Ok, after several days of having her in the house and on denegard in her drinking water (treatment dose) and flushing this nare with saline, and a.tylan50 flush, also have used colloidal silver and triple antibiotic ointment throughout the day, this is what it's looking like. I think it's getting a lot better, just wish I could find someone that's dealt with this before. We initially thought it was debris, corn or something. When we couldn't find anything like that in it, we were told it was canker. She has gone through the metronidizole treatment and it did get better during tbat, but still stayed snotty and would harden. She's eating, drinking and doesn't seem in pain at all, until we start messing with the nare.

 

[Sqhomestead]

This is her today. We've gotten the nare dried up finally and mostly unclogged, but this little piece of tissue maybe never goes away or unswells.

 

[Eggcessive]

It might be part of the normal anatomy, or she may have a defect in her nares. But her nostril looks very good.

 

[Sqhomestead]

Eggcessive... thanks for all the support through this! If there are any drastic changes I'll update on this thread in the event it someday helps someone else going through the same kind of thing.

 

[Sqhomestead]

Hi all! Sorry it's been so long since uodating. She's doing amazing. The nare is staying really clear and I haven't heard her cough or sneeze in a week! I'm gonna give it up to the denegard, Colloidal silver and saline rinses. 1, or all 3 of those have helped majorly.

 

[Eggcessive]

That is great. You have done a very good job. I don’t know if I would have been so tenacious for so long.