Does this look like a egg problem? Or?

[birdeo]

I was given the advice about calcium, good advice btw , when one of my hens were looking like yours.
However, a good dose of wormer cleared her right up and she was acting like your hen in addition having her eyes closed much of the time....could tell she did not feel well.
Mine was not egg bound nor was it a calcium issue it seems but the calcium info. was very much appreciated.
Good idea to leave oyster shell in the pen at all times for them too.

You can give a human dose of a calcium pill if you want to give calcium ( or any other liquid meds. if needed , dissolved in water before hand if in a pill form ) via a syringe or a plastic pipette.
I use the pipettes for can get past the windpipe and down in the throat much easier and for sure with those.
The windpipe ( trachea ) is the small hole in the front of the throat at the back of the tongue, don't let any fluids get in there ever !
It expands greatly when a bird is breathing heavily so you want to be sure and get behind/well beyond it and down in the throat. Hold her head up until you are sure are fluids are down the throat and cannot back up into the windpipe. You can lighty rub her neck to get them to move on down also.

 

[casportpony]

New, this may sound like a stupid question, but are you 100% sure that she hasn't laid an egg?

-Kathy

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Well, it can't be that stupid a question, because I went right out to search the pen! No luck.
But, now that you ask, when I've been cleaning up in the pen I've noticed some (what I assumed were) droppings with the consistency of egg whites, is it possible that's actually some kind of shell-less egg stuff???

 

[zazouse]

Well, it can't be that stupid a question, because I went right out to search the pen! No luck.
But, now that you ask, when I've been cleaning up in the pen I've noticed some (what I assumed were) droppings with the consistency of egg whites, is it possible that's actually some kind of shell-less egg stuff???

Are you talking about clear droppings or white?

 

[areeb]

i remember when mine would start laying, they would pace around the pen frantically and do anything but stay still

 

[casportpony]

Well, it can't be that stupid a question, because I went right out to search the pen! No luck.
But, now that you ask, when I've been cleaning up in the pen I've noticed some (what I assumed were) droppings with the consistency of egg whites, is it possible that's actually some kind of shell-less egg stuff???

Did anything look like these?
https://www.google.com/search?q=egg...6YDYAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1357&bih=859

 

[critters]

Well, it can't be that stupid a question, because I went right out to search the pen! No luck.
But, now that you ask, when I've been cleaning up in the pen I've noticed some (what I assumed were) droppings with the consistency of egg whites, is it possible that's actually some kind of shell-less egg stuff???

kinda sounds like soft-shell eggs if you mean the "consistency of egg whites" is clear like when
separating an egg ( yolk from whites) and if she is fine the next day it just might be....
how often have you noticed this ' egg whites' stuff?

 

[new 2 pfowl]

First of all, today she seems normal/healthy again and I even saw her do a regular-style pea poop.
I'm not sure what this means.

And OK, now I feel stupid because this is probably just the usual-style poop too.
Don't forget that I'm not used to having penned birds so I usually just encounter their poop "in the wild."
When I swept this with a broom, the clear part had the viscous consistency of egg white (yes, like when you separate yolk from white).
That's why I mentioned it.

 

[Yoda]

Where did you find these egg white stuff under her perch? I have a part time egg eater hen LOL she lays the egg while up on the perch and when it hits the ground it breaks and she goes down and eats the yok and the whole egg shell and all that is left it some of the whites left and yes if I did not see her doing this it will just look like poop to me too. She doesn't do it all the time though and yes there is always oyster shell in my pens. I just think once in a while she likes to eat raw egg LOL.
This hen below has not laid an egg this season at all. Some days she will look like this and then fine but when it is hot outside she will look like this too. She is actually Neptune's sister Xena and was put back into the main pen for not laying an egg yet. This look has been hers since breeding season started, but the pictures where taken Wednesday 6/26 and we still had a heatwave going on here in CT

 

[casportpony]

If she's doing the "stance" every other day or two, and it hasn't been really warm, it does sound like it's egg related somehow.

-Kathy