- Mar 28, 2011
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One of my hens is acting really strange and I'm thinking that she's eggbound.
Yesterday she started standing around with her wings and tail drooping nearly to the ground. I looked and felt her over and noticed that she looks like she or someone else plucked out most of the feathers from under her vent to between her legs. Her underside is bulging in that area and it feels really firm, like a full hot water bottle. I don't feel a hard egg; it just feels really firm in a way that none of my others girls feel. The skin across her breast feels really taut, whereas my other hens have a pleasant squishiness to their breasts.
I've seen her drink but I haven't seen her eat or poop much at all. Her eating is mostly halfhearted pecks at the grass and her poops have been just some white and nothing else. She'll be a year old next month and usually lays one egg a day, but she hasn't laid at all in the past 2 days.
I brought her in and let her soak in a warm tub of water yesterday afternoon and again this morning, but nothing seems to be happening. She just stands up (sometimes sleeping, sometimes not) in the coop with her wings and tail drooping.
Could this be a stuck egg or is this something completely different? I fear that I'm going to have a dead chicken in the morning if something doesn't happen to her soon. =(
Yesterday she started standing around with her wings and tail drooping nearly to the ground. I looked and felt her over and noticed that she looks like she or someone else plucked out most of the feathers from under her vent to between her legs. Her underside is bulging in that area and it feels really firm, like a full hot water bottle. I don't feel a hard egg; it just feels really firm in a way that none of my others girls feel. The skin across her breast feels really taut, whereas my other hens have a pleasant squishiness to their breasts.
I've seen her drink but I haven't seen her eat or poop much at all. Her eating is mostly halfhearted pecks at the grass and her poops have been just some white and nothing else. She'll be a year old next month and usually lays one egg a day, but she hasn't laid at all in the past 2 days.
I brought her in and let her soak in a warm tub of water yesterday afternoon and again this morning, but nothing seems to be happening. She just stands up (sometimes sleeping, sometimes not) in the coop with her wings and tail drooping.
Could this be a stuck egg or is this something completely different? I fear that I'm going to have a dead chicken in the morning if something doesn't happen to her soon. =(
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I'm sorry. It's always tough to lose a girl.
