chicken egg bound

[Eggcessive]

Just give some crushed egg shell or crushed oyster shell if not calcium is available. Vitamin D with calcium is fine. Some people will use calcium gluconate from a farm store.

 

[chickitybickity]

Her adomin does feel very heavy and like a water balloon. I am not 100% sure but last night while I was rubbing vasaline with a glove hand, I thought I felt an egg. The poor thing seemed so tired and exausted that I had stopped for the night. This was about two to three hours. I had her in the sink at first with warm water. Than the tub, then i had applied the vasaline and she pooed a couple of times but very little at a time, she had seemed like she was trying to push something out but nothing would ever release. This morning when i checked on her she had eaten a few nibbles more than thr past couple of days. She still isnt drinking, I am going to try again tonight to see if I can get progress. This whole thing is breaking my heart.

 

[BayBay Peepers]

Im really scared about what I am going to find when I get home. I should do the feeding tube but its just me who is providing the medical care and I dont want to do the wrong thing. Im really not steady handed and I dont want to put fluids down the wrong tubing in the chicken's throat.

It's almost impossible to go down the wrong tube and you would know. I promise it's not as bad as it sounds. You just go along the side of the throat. It's easiest, I found, to place the bird between your knees wrapped in a towel and use one had to open the beak and stretch the neck and use the other to insert the tube.

As for not finding calcium drops you can crush a calcium pill and either dissolve it in water or try to feed it to her on a little bread.

 

[seminolewind]

Some people use Tums in a pinch

I just wonder if she has internal laying or egg bound. If you feel that egg, you can lubricate around the edges where it's stuck and keep doing it working the skin off of being stuck to the egg. Little by little, that egg has to be unglued from the wall by lubricating and working it.

 

[chickitybickity]

When I got home this evening she wasnt in her hospital box she had gotten herself up into the bottom nesting box, which is good. She is moving around. She is still not interested in water, but she ate more yogurt and got a shot of antibiotics. She ate just a little bit of crumble today. I offered her other types of food and she wouldnt go for it, but she chowed down on the yogurt. I didnt try to remove the egg tonight. She looked so tired and just miserable. She slept with her sisters last night and i put all three of them in together again tonight. I am hoping the antibiotics will help. Thank you all for being such big supporters and help. The lady that i spoke with today was a big help too. All of you are so awesome. Thank you so much.

 

[BayBay Peepers]

You can also feed her some scrambled eggs.

Keep a close eye on her. Birds are really good at masking feelings when they're down and some can survive quite a long time being egg bound.

 

[chickitybickity]

You can also feed her some scrambled eggs. 

Keep a close eye on her.  Birds are really good at masking feelings when they're down and some can survive quite a long time being egg bound.

Do I separate yolk from whites?

 

[BayBay Peepers]

No, you don't have to. They can eat the whole thing shell and all. Usually when I'm done with eggs in general I crush up the shells good and feed it right back to my flock. They love it.

 

[chickitybickity]

Oh wow. Ok. When I get home from work, I will be sure to dk that. Thank you so much.

 

[BayBay Peepers]

No problem! It's a handy food to use. They can get extra calcium from the shells and protein from the egg itself.