Chicken with Egg Laying Problems

[janicetroyer]

She needs help getting her ovulation reset to one yolk per cycle. Two eggs per cycle is not that rare, but when it happens it not only makes the hen feel just awful, but it's a risk to her life and reproductive health.

The way you treat it is with this.View attachment 3417165Give her one whole table right now and one per day until she's procucing a single egg per cycle and the shells are of good quality. It could take three days or a week or even two.

And as much as the chickens enjoy the veggie treat fest, try to restrict it to once a week.

How do you get them to eat this?

 

[azygous]

You pry open the beak and shove the pill in. Go ask YouTube to show you a video of a hen swallowing a mouse whole. A pill is nothing for a chicken.

 

[azygous]

Here. Found one for you.

 

[BuddingGardener]

How do you get them to eat this?

Exactly what @azygous said. We corner our chicken in the run and scoop her up. It was surprisingly super easy to get her to take it. We gave her another today and we are hoping we can stop if she lays another normal egg tomorrow.

 

[BuddingGardener]

@azygous we are still struggling to normalize her egg laying. Two days ago she laid a normal egg INSIDE of a soft-shelled egg and it was an enormous day long ordeal. She has a vet appointment for Saturday.

Today she did manage to lay a normal egg! But it is pale in color (almost white vs. blue tinted) and covered in pimply calcium deposits. Frankly I’m just happy she still seems capable of laying a “normal” egg. Do you have any insight on whether our calcium supplements helped her out with this? We discontinued for now because I don’t want to overdo the calcium, and we switched back to Purina Layena crumbles on a full time basis, no Nutrena feather fixer. Veggie treats have been significantly reduced to only a few tablespoons total for all four birds, plus a sprinkle of BSFL on top; these happen maybe twice a week at most.

It’s tough to judge what to do. I mostly want to get a solid answer of what we are dealing with and go from there, though I am a little nervous about stressing her more with a vet visit.

 

[azygous]

This should have corrected by now. There may be something else going on that only a chicken vet might be able to figure out. Yes, let her body rest from the calcium. The calcium pimples on the shells is indication her body is topped off. Any more calcium won't be helpful.

It will be interesting to see what the vet says.

 

[azygous]

One cause of two eggs per cycle is overfeeding. Do you know how much feed she consumes each day? It shouldn't be more than one cup.

 

[BuddingGardener]

One cause of two eggs per cycle is overfeeding. Do you know how much feed she consumes each day? It shouldn't be more than one cup.

She eats less than all the rest of the chickens. I can’t say exactly how much, but if any of them are over eating, it’s not her. She also spent a week not laying before unleashing her double egg. Let me take a photo of the egg that came out of her egg within an egg and her egg today

 

[BuddingGardener]

One cause of two eggs per cycle is overfeeding. Do you know how much feed she consumes each day? It shouldn't be more than one cup.

The smoother egg on the right was inside of a mess of membrane,yolk, and whites. The pimpled egg is from today. The pimpled egg shell feels a bit thinner I suppose, but I’d have to crack it to see for sure.

 

[BuddingGardener]

And despite laying yesterday, she laid a rubbery membrane-covered FULL egg on the roosting area last night. This one, I feel, just went through her system too quickly to fully shell up. Despite the papery soft shell, it was a complete egg WITH calcium pimply deposits on the ends.

I actually consider this progress from where she's been. I'm still taking her to her appointment on Saturday but it's good to see her actually getting the eggs out of her body in a whole, appropriately egg-shaped vessel.