Egg Bound Easter Egger

[azygous]

Oyster shell isn't easily digested by some hens. The result can be thin shells regardless of how much oyster shell is available. Another reason oyster shell may be inadequate is if is reduced to very small partlcles and powder. Replace it if you find it's in this condition. The particles need to be of size to remain in the digestive tract long enough to absorb.

Lack of sun can also cause shell issues due low vitamin D. Add D3 to their water when the weather is dark or they have to stay inside.

But you can give these other hens calcium citrate and D3 when their shells are thin. A few days of the tablets and it usually fixes the problem.

 

[ckuehn]

She is the same. She sits kind of hunched over. She gets a tsp of coconut oil, or MCT oil, I massage her hard crop, it seems to go down, and is back again. I have given her megadoses of calcium citrate. I have given her epsom salt soaks. I locked her in a nest with a heating pad under her. She eats when everyone else does, but not a lot. She hunches like she is going to lay an egg ON occasion, but not all the time. She is not herself, but she is not miserable. I expect to find a carcass every time I go in there (about 10 times a day and she is still there-still the same). no one bugs her, not even the rooster. She drinks water. She craves greens and lettuce and stuff. I'm not sure what else I can do-unless I just do it all again. I can't feel an egg, but the size eggs she was laying was like a goose and she is a smaller hen (not like my brahmas and australorps). I will read up on the molasses thing, but it doesn't seem like the right fit for her problem.

 

[azygous]

Don't give up yet. As long as the hen is showing signs of hanging in there, eating and drinking, there's hope. An obstruction in the reproductive tract isn't always an egg. Sometimes it's a bit of tissue that sloughed off the oviduct wall. Sometimes it's a tumor. If it's tissue, the tissue will eventually make its way out, and you may not even notice it. But your hen will snap back to normal like magic. If it's a tumor, the hen will decline from here and not get better. You're doing all you can. It's a waiting game now.

 

[ckuehn]

Well, I did the molasses flush. She didn't like that a bit, but she got a lot of it down. I isolated her for the night. She has not been isolated much. Maybe it is just winter, They haven't got out of the coop for a few days. I know a lot of people who fee like her right now.

 

[ckuehn]

Well, I did the molasses flush. She didn't like that a bit, but she got a lot of it down. I isolated her for the night. She has not been isolated much. Maybe it is just winter, They haven't got out of the coop for a few days. I know a lot of people who fee like her right now.

Well, I did the molasses flush. She didn't like that a bit, but she got a lot of it down. I isolated her for the night. She has not been isolated much. Maybe it is just winter, They haven't got out of the coop for a few days. I know a lot of people who fee like her right now.

She seemed better today. She went outside and hung around out there. She doesn't have the same hard crop and doesn't look lopsided in the breast like she did.

 

[ckuehn]

Ursula is better. the crop has gone down. She is eating normally. I add calcium, but not a lot extra now. Thanks for all of your help. I NOW have these things on hand and fishmox on the way for related issues!