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Advice please!

Asharpegg

In the Brooder
Apr 12, 2022
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Sunday morning we woke up to our sweet 1 year old lying in coop. Unusually for her. We immediately separated her fr flock and began trying to figure out what was going on. She slightly limping and puffed. She was puckering her vent. I began the epsom salt soak bath. After she soaked for 20 or so minutes I gloves up with Ky to check vent. Indeed there was an egg. So my first concern was egg bound. We babies her all day giving her calcium(tums) crushed in water and soaked her 3 different times. She did finally lay an egg that evening. We kept her separated for the night and thought she would be better in am. She had some hendrench as well.
Since Monday morning she has not gotten any better unable to stand or walk very much. She had several normal poops and I was able to get her to eat some and helped give her water. Poops aren’t as good but she’s not eating as she usually does and I’ve given her some poultry cell. Any ideas? No one else has weird poops.. and hers don’t look like
 
It’s cut off I think. Poops don’t look like Coccidiosis. Should I treat for it anyway? And begin treatment on flock? Will it hurt them if they don’t have Coccidiosis? Thanks in advance
 
We buy feed from local mill. Mix scratch, grains, pellets, crumble. Treats are meal worms that I grow. We mix with some oyster shell and some of their shells we dry and grind. She eats grass and stuff around yard as well. We have had some broody hens in the “favorite” nesting box so I was worried she held her egg too long. If it’s passed why isn’t she better?
 
We buy feed from local mill. Mix scratch, grains, pellets, crumble. Treats are meal worms that I grow. We mix with some oyster shell and some of their shells we dry and grind. She eats grass and stuff around yard as well. We have had some broody hens in the “favorite” nesting box so I was worried she held her egg too long. If it’s passed why isn’t she better?
Cut out everything but the real feed and leave the oyster shell in a seperate container, no scratch, grain or treats. When you mix stuff into their feed, it dilutes the nutrients in it, it should only make up about 10% or less of their diet ir less than a tablespoon, every other day.
Fat gathers around the internal organs and causes them to fail.
She's likely suffering from vitamin deficiency. Get some poultry or baby vitamins or if you check your medicine cabinet and give her some vitamin E capsule and about a third of a B complex tablet every day for a few weeks.
What is the nutrition analysis on the feed?
 
This sounds a lot like what I am facing today as well.. I will be watching your post too!
Unfortunately she past… we are heartbroken. I believe she didn’t recover after being egg-bound. I can’t figure what else it could have been. The flock is healthy and seem to be doing well. Never saw any strange poops.. ugh.. We miss our girl immensely.
 
Unfortunately she past… we are heartbroken. I believe she didn’t recover after being egg-bound. I can’t figure what else it could have been. The flock is healthy and seem to be doing well. Never saw any strange poops.. ugh.. We miss our girl immensely.
I'm sorry 😢
 

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