We have a chicken that according to everything we have read is egg bound. She cannot stand up, she is pufffed up and her wings are kind of limp. This has been since early Sunday Morning.
She is eating and drinking, her eyes are absolutely clear and bright she is totaly alert. When I handle her she does not snap at me like she is in any pain.
Yesterday there were a couple of solid big poops in the dog crate we are keeping her in but she has watery ones too. We gave her a bath Sunday night and have kept steam and a heat lamp going in the crate that is covered with blankets trying to relax her.
I have tried feeling all up around her abdomen and I feel nothing hard at all. Last night, I put a finger in her vent, (not far because I didnt want to hurt her) but there was nothing, and she didnt seem to care that I was doing it anyway.
So I am at a loss. I would have thought she would have been dead by now if she were egg bound but she is just the same. There are no broken bones or anything we can feel. We got some calcium pills and I crushed one and put it in cheese so she would eat it and she grabbed the cheese right out of my hand like she normally would.
Should I just leave her alone? or keep up the baths and the steam?
She is eating and drinking, her eyes are absolutely clear and bright she is totaly alert. When I handle her she does not snap at me like she is in any pain.
Yesterday there were a couple of solid big poops in the dog crate we are keeping her in but she has watery ones too. We gave her a bath Sunday night and have kept steam and a heat lamp going in the crate that is covered with blankets trying to relax her.
I have tried feeling all up around her abdomen and I feel nothing hard at all. Last night, I put a finger in her vent, (not far because I didnt want to hurt her) but there was nothing, and she didnt seem to care that I was doing it anyway.
So I am at a loss. I would have thought she would have been dead by now if she were egg bound but she is just the same. There are no broken bones or anything we can feel. We got some calcium pills and I crushed one and put it in cheese so she would eat it and she grabbed the cheese right out of my hand like she normally would.
Should I just leave her alone? or keep up the baths and the steam?