Egg bound hen with two eggs

[casportpony]

three shelled eggs today and still two in her

I didn't think that was possible because to lay shell down I think the egg needs to be in the shell gland for many hours. @ChickenCanoe, what do you think?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

What does her poop look like?

If she’s pooping then she isn’t egg bound. When a bird is going to lay an egg the egg blocks off the intestines. If an egg bound bird isn’t tended to it will die from the build up of waste in its body.

To the original poster is your friend’s bird a Sex Link or Production breed? Maybe the bird was internal laying

 

[SurferchickinSB]

Maybe give her some calcium, magnesium supplement, it will help her relax her muscles just like it does in humans and it may help her pass the eggs.

 

[HenniesInMyHeart]

I didn't think that wa possible because to lay shell down I think the egg needs to be in the shell gland for many hours. @ChickenCanoe, what do you think?

THIS! I can't work out the biology of this...I am dumbfounded that none have been broken either! I mean, room for MULTIPLE, fully-formed, shelled eggs?! That poor hen!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Could have been internal laying. Which would explain the fully shelled eggs.

 

[casportpony]

Could have been internal laying. Which would explain the fully shelled eggs.

Can you explain this to me?

 

[micstrachan]

This poor hen! I’m watching this thread and hope for the best.

 

[nightowl223]

This poor hen! I’m watching this thread and hope for the best.

The OP hasn't gotten back with us - the one that's been answering has been the turkey hen (well, her owner ). I'm not sure that the OP's friend wasn't pulling her leg. I don't see how even an internal layer could hold that many eggs (including the "IT WAS HUGE" egg, especially). That's my opinion. I may be wrong.

We can still hope the turkey hen perks up and starts feeling better, though!

 

[April’s Zoo]

I still don’t get how internal laying would figure into any of what the OP posted about.... if a hen is internally laying, then the yolks are being deposited into her abdomen, and there wouldn’t be anything passing by the shell gland to get a shell around....

The physiology just doesn’t work the way it was described.... it defies logic.

 

[nightowl223]

I still don’t get how internal laying would figure into any of what the OP posted about.... if a hen is internally laying, then the yolks are being deposited into her abdomen, and there wouldn’t be anything passing by the shell gland to get a shell around....

The physiology just doesn’t work the way it was described.... it defies logic.

That's precisely why I think the OP's "friend" was pulling her leg, as some sort of weird joke.