an egg broke inside my silkie hen!

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Me neither. I have had stuck ones and shelless but not broken.

ok, thanks anyway

 

[Cryss]

@Wyorp Rock

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

I think I’ll administer some penicillin

 

[GermanKennhuhn]

@Eggcessive might be able to help. Sorry I’ve got no advice I haven’t had to deal with this yet.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Ok, thank you

 

[Ebony Rose]

I've never had a broken egg in a hen before, but from all the poking around here at BYC forums, I know that she'll need a nice warm bath (very warm but comfortable to the inside of the wrist skin when you submerge your hand in the water is the right temperature). Are you certain it was a hard-shelled egg that broke? Could it have been a rubber egg (one without the hard shell coating) instead. Pray it was a rubber egg, it'll be easier to deal with. If it was a rubber egg, you can give her some scrambled eggs, hard boiled egg yolk, calcium supplement (from feed store or even from the human vitamins section at your grocery or pharmacy), or part of a TUMS (TM) antiacid tablet (main ingredient is calcium). This calcium will strengthen her contractions, and along with the warm bath, should help her expel any remaining membrane, albumen and yolk in her vagina and vent.
If she broke a fully formed, hard shelled egg inside, I would not induce contractions with calcium as I'd be very concerned with jagged (sharp) edges cutting her internally.

Again, I've NEVER had to deal with a broken egg in a hen, so the suggestions are things that I'd consider if she were my hen, until I received better advice from more experienced folks in these forums.

I'll be following this thread to learn more about how to handle this situation, just in case I ever have to deal with this situation with my flock.

I will keep you and your feathered family in my prayers.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Thank you! I already made her scrambled egg, and am preparing an epsom salt bath along with penicillin injection

 

[Ebony Rose]

If you're going with antibiotics, be sure to do a full course, not just a single dose. If she's got infection brewing, she'll need all the help she can get and you don't want to merely weaken an infection so that it can come back resistant to the drugs, you want the infection, dead, dead, dead.

 

[aart]

Are you certain it was a hard-shelled egg that broke?

This was my number one question^^^.

 

[The Angry Hen]

I've had a hen in the past with a similar situation and I tried my best to help her- but by the time I got her out of the coop, the other birds made it worse.
If this hadn't happened... my help may have worked.

I put Vaseline around the hen's vent, and tried to remove any egg shell I could find. I gave her oyster shell for calcium- by putting it in her water. You can also add ACV to her water as a natural electrolyte.
I didn't feed her eggs, but regret it. I would scramble up 2 eggs and give her this as a zoom.
It's tricky... but you can try the best you can by being gentle with her. Try to keep her on her feet, massage delicately her crop and beneath her legs, etc..

Make sure she's drinking- she needs that water. I wish I could be of more help... but I pray she'll be okay!