Hi all, I have a speckled Sussex hen named Delilah who is a year and a half old now, I found her on the ground outside the coop yesterday unable to walk, I have had egg bound hens in the past but usually by the time I have found them this way they are too far gone and passed away regardless of what I did shortly after finding them. I suspect egg bound but I’m not sure if there is anything else I can do for her other than what I’ve done so far, I will answer the questions that I know will be asked and if anyone has any other ideas please let me know! Taking her to a vet is out of the question I just don’t have the funds right now.
My full size chickens are all free ranged we have about 5 acres, there is nothing that I can see that she could’ve possibly been poisoned with but it is southwest Florida and extremely hot right now.
I feed them a mix of Purina layer crumbles with purina layer pellets with omega-3 and Dumor five grain scratch mixed in. They have oyster shell as an option but none of them touch it because they free range so much they won’t go near the oyster shell.
With it being so hot lately I have been adding Hydro hen along with the poultry cell that I always have added to their water
She is not overweight they get a ton of exercise with full roam of the 5 acres.
When I found her she actually had food in her crop, and it was empty this morning so I don’t think sour or impacted crop
I immediately took her inside and soaked her in a warm Epson salt bath for about 20 minutes I did put a glove on with olive oil and stuck it up her vent and did not feel an egg, but I gave her a calcium tablet (400mg) which I dissolved in some water and gave her in an eyedropper and she drank all of it and at about 11 PM last night when I checked on her in her clothes basket that I have her in she had passed an egg and a bunch of runny poop.
This morning she still cannot stand up but she is very alert I have continued to give her the calcium water mixture I scrambled an egg for her and she ate the whole thing along with the egg shells from the egg and some layer crumbles and she has been drinking water today also.
She is not thin at all so I am hoping that I caught it soon enough she has not laid an egg today but I just don’t know what else I can do to help her…
I will try an epsom salt bath again tonight, there are no injuries I can see it’s just like she cannot stand in her own. I’ll the picture of the only poop she’s pooped today it smells awful worse than normal poop and is runny and yellow, also the white all over her beak is from the calcium tablet water.
My full size chickens are all free ranged we have about 5 acres, there is nothing that I can see that she could’ve possibly been poisoned with but it is southwest Florida and extremely hot right now.
I feed them a mix of Purina layer crumbles with purina layer pellets with omega-3 and Dumor five grain scratch mixed in. They have oyster shell as an option but none of them touch it because they free range so much they won’t go near the oyster shell.
With it being so hot lately I have been adding Hydro hen along with the poultry cell that I always have added to their water
She is not overweight they get a ton of exercise with full roam of the 5 acres.
When I found her she actually had food in her crop, and it was empty this morning so I don’t think sour or impacted crop
I immediately took her inside and soaked her in a warm Epson salt bath for about 20 minutes I did put a glove on with olive oil and stuck it up her vent and did not feel an egg, but I gave her a calcium tablet (400mg) which I dissolved in some water and gave her in an eyedropper and she drank all of it and at about 11 PM last night when I checked on her in her clothes basket that I have her in she had passed an egg and a bunch of runny poop.
This morning she still cannot stand up but she is very alert I have continued to give her the calcium water mixture I scrambled an egg for her and she ate the whole thing along with the egg shells from the egg and some layer crumbles and she has been drinking water today also.
She is not thin at all so I am hoping that I caught it soon enough she has not laid an egg today but I just don’t know what else I can do to help her…
I will try an epsom salt bath again tonight, there are no injuries I can see it’s just like she cannot stand in her own. I’ll the picture of the only poop she’s pooped today it smells awful worse than normal poop and is runny and yellow, also the white all over her beak is from the calcium tablet water.
