Chicken acting strange?

[efowl24]

I’ve got one chicken who is acting strange. She’s 19 weeks old, and may have laid her first egg this morning/ last night. I’ve got a 8 chickens, 7 of which are female and 1 is a male. I found my first egg this morning and she is one of three that I suspect laid it. She’s been totally fine until I just went and checked on them. She’s just kinda walking around, occasionally pecking at the ground. She’s shown no interest in treats, and normally will run to me for them. She laid down twice in the time I was watching her and notices her off behavior, and is blinking a lot and occasionally leaving her membrane eyelid (unsure of correct term) over her eye. She’s normally very vocal, and when I pick her up or touch her she doesn’t really put up much of a fight and just kinda makes these sad little noises. One chicken even came over while she was laying down and was scratching her with her foot almost like she would if she were trying to forage. She’s just overall acting strange, wants nothing to do with food, keeps wanting to lay down, and has her tail feathers kinda pointed down. Any ideas of what I can try or do for her? Thoughts?

 

[Eggcessive]

Do you have any Poultry NutriDrench or some electrolytes with vitamins to offer her? A human calcium tablet or Tums may be given to give her a little boost of calcium in case she is trying to lay. Have you seen any soft or thin shall eggs? I would keep an eye on her and her droppings. A bit of mushy wet chicken feed and scrambled egg bits might be good to offer.

 

[efowl24]

Do you have any Poultry NutriDrench or some electrolytes with vitamins to offer her? A human calcium tablet or Tums may be given to give her a little boost of calcium in case she is trying to lay. Have you seen any soft or thin shall eggs? I would keep an eye on her and her droppings. A bit of mushy wet chicken feed and scrambled egg bits might be good to offer.

I have some electrolytes. I had an egg in the coop this morning, but I’m not sure if she was who laid it. It was the first one I’ve gotten, but she’s one of the three I suspect to have laid it due to signs she was showing that she was ready to lay. The egg did have a pretty thin shell, but I figured that’s normal for new layers while their bodies are still figuring it out. They’ve had oyster shells available for two weeks or so. She just drank like normal, and I pulled some food out of the feeder and put it on the ground in front of her and she ate a few pieces, and pecked around and ate some scratch I’d thrown down. How would you go about feeding tums? I assume even the fruit flavored ones are fine to give? I also just saw her poop, and it was relatively normal, kinda clear gelatinous with white and some greenish brown marbled into it. I looked through it for worms and didn’t see any. I also checked her for mites under her wings and around her vent and didn’t see any. Her crop isn’t totally flat, so she’s been eating at least some. I had another one of the chickens act pretty similar to this a few months ago, but the next day she was totally fine. Maybe she just doesn’t feel well?

 

[Eggcessive]

The6 can sometimes have another egg coming right along behind one that might have been slowed down because of shell problems. Hopefully, she is okay and it is just something temporary. Tums or a tablet can be broken in half, and just dropped into the beak to swallow. Here is one of many videos on giving a tablet to a chicken:

 

[efowl24]

The6 can sometimes have another egg coming right along behind one that might have been slowed down because of shell problems. Hopefully, she is okay and it is just something temporary. Tums or a tablet can be broken in half, and just dropped into the beak to swallow. Here is one of many videos on giving a tablet to a chicken:

I just gave her some electrolyte water and she drank it with no hesitation. I read online in a few different places (some threads on here included) that giving yogurt can help them when having egg laying issues, both with probiotics and the extra calcium. She ate it up with ZERO hesitation, apparently she loves yogurt should I try the tum today, or wait to see if there is any improvement? I did also happen to see her poop again, and this one didn’t look quite so normal. What do you think?

 

[Eggcessive]

I would give the calcium or half of one. 300 mg is good. The yogurt also has d 3 too which helps the calcium. It would be good to see some normal material in the dropping. It looks mostly like urates and mucus.

 

[efowl24]

I would give the calcium or half of one. 300 mg is good. The yogurt also has d 3 too which helps the calcium. It would be good to see some normal material in the dropping. It looks mostly like urates and mucus.

How large of a pill can I realistically give a chicken? I’ve got some 315mg calcium citrate +d3 pills but they’re rather large lol

Edit: I cut the pill up into smaller pieces and it was surprisingly easy to give to her. I waited until she was asleep and she didn’t really fight me. Hopefully that helps her out. Thanks!!