Chicken VERY unwell after family trip

[shadowbanned]

Do 1 tums for now. @azygous will know how many, however I've never treated an egg bound hen, just read threads on it. On another thread, @Weeg said to give 1 tums, and I trust her. So start with that. You can pop it in her beak whole.

Thanks I'll do that.

 

[Eggcessive]

You can insert a clean or gloved finger into her vent to feel for a stuck egg. I would continue to offer her water. Human calcium tablet with vitamin D 3 or a Tums may be given orally into the beak. The Tums would need to be broken in half or quartered. Calcium can help with egg binding. But she may be showing worse signs of the heat or dehydration. Does you coop have enough ventilation? Can you try and fix the door tomorrow so this doesn’t happen again in the future? Sorry this happened, but glad that you found them in time.

 

[Battlepants]

I don't have a rooster but I don't know what broody really means.

Broody is when they want to hatch out some eggs. They will get very grouchy and sit in the nestbox all day, sometimes also plucking their stomach to better sit on the eggs. Does not require a rooster for broodyness to happen, but obviously will not produce chicks without one. Won't stop them from trying though.

 

[shadowbanned]

You can insert a clean or gloved finger into her vent to feel for a stuck egg. I would continue to offer her water. Human calcium tablet with vitamin D 3 or a Tums may be given orally into the beak. The Tums would need to be broken in half or quartered. Calcium can help with egg binding. But she may be showing worse signs of the heat or dehydration. Does you coop have enough ventilation? Can you try and fix the door tomorrow so this doesn’t happen again in the future? Sorry this happened, but glad that you found them in time.

The door needs to be completely removed and I wasn't clear on that with him. It's not broken it just can't be propped up. We have to take it out and set it next to the coop. There is ventilation on all sides, we took a hole saw to it. They usually free range all day in the backyard. They only go in the coop to lay and sleep.

 

[shadowbanned]

Broody is when they want to hatch out some eggs. They will get very grouchy and sit in the nestbox all day, sometimes also plucking their stomach to better sit on the eggs. Does not require a rooster for broodyness to happen, but obviously will not produce chicks without one. Won't stop them from trying though.

Ah I see

 

[Eggcessive]

Let us know how the weak one and the others get along. If chickens go through a big stress or go without water for a time, they can go into a sudden molt. Hopefully, that won’t happen.

 

[shadowbanned]

Do 1 tums for now. @azygous will know how many, however I've never treated an egg bound hen, just read threads on it. On another thread, @Weeg said to give 1 tums, and I trust her. So start with that. You can pop it in her beak whole.

I forgot to mention that she has had a few small bowel movements. Maybe something's getting past the egg somehow?
Also, she is eating the tums on her own. I crushed one up to the size of chick grit.

 

[shadowbanned]

Let us know how the weak one and the others get along. If chickens go through a big stress or go without water for a time, they can go into a sudden molt. Hopefully, that won’t happen.

Most of the chickens get along fine. There is one who doesn't really like the others and she wanders off and finds ways to get into the front yard and even sleeps at the end of the roost, away from the others lol