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Chicken acting weird

Jsnai

In the Brooder
Apr 4, 2022
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Looking for help for my hen! She is starting to lose a bunch of feathers, but too young for a molt. She is not even a year old yet. Appetite is down, and she’s walking weird (video below), but she can still run and catch up to the others. Seems like she’s in pain when I try to touch her feathers to check for mites/lice.

Maybe her, but one chicken did lay a weird egg a week or two ago. It was a soft and not fully closed egg with some black at the top.

 
I am leaning towards egg bound…. I feel her abdomen is hard and she is standing with tail feathers raised. Vent is percolating. I gave her some calcium too and a little petroleum jelly on the outside of vent (it looked very dry).
 

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