Hello everyone!
I posted yesterday as I have a ten month old hen who I thought was egg bound. She usually gives me 6-7 eggs a week, so when she stopped it seemed odd for her.
Its day five and there's been warm baths, massages, electrolytes, isolation, runny poo and some weight loss. On day three - third day of not laying, she started just sitting on the floor of the coop, it was at that point I went into action, thinking it was more than just a laying break (however she had been in the egg box a lot I assume trying to lay)
Well as I said, its now day five of no eggs, but she seems fine, so Ive put her back in with the others and I'm hoping I misdiagnosed her.
I had had the girls on a layer feed but changed it as I added two new girls to a feed with no or little calcium, but gave oyster shell in a hanging feeder for the laying girls. Now the new girls are 18 wks Ive changed back to the layer feed. Could this of caused the stop in laying in my Black Star. My E.E and Red star are laying well and my Dark Cornish is in a moult.
If she was egg bound, surely by day five she'd be at deaths door???
What do you think??
THANK-YOU!!!
I posted yesterday as I have a ten month old hen who I thought was egg bound. She usually gives me 6-7 eggs a week, so when she stopped it seemed odd for her.
Its day five and there's been warm baths, massages, electrolytes, isolation, runny poo and some weight loss. On day three - third day of not laying, she started just sitting on the floor of the coop, it was at that point I went into action, thinking it was more than just a laying break (however she had been in the egg box a lot I assume trying to lay)
Well as I said, its now day five of no eggs, but she seems fine, so Ive put her back in with the others and I'm hoping I misdiagnosed her.
I had had the girls on a layer feed but changed it as I added two new girls to a feed with no or little calcium, but gave oyster shell in a hanging feeder for the laying girls. Now the new girls are 18 wks Ive changed back to the layer feed. Could this of caused the stop in laying in my Black Star. My E.E and Red star are laying well and my Dark Cornish is in a moult.
If she was egg bound, surely by day five she'd be at deaths door???
What do you think??
THANK-YOU!!!
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