Egg Bound please help!!

[JustBabyMargo]

My 5 year old hen is egg bound! What do I do? We gave her an Epsom salt bath but it didn’t do much! Can anyone help??

 

[JustBabyMargo]

*Bump I fed her half a tums and she is eating a bit when hand fed

 

[Eggcessive]

Has she been laying eggs recently, and have the shells been normal and hard? Have you inserted a clean finger into her vent to feel for a stuck egg? Tums may help with calcium. Is her tail up or down? What do her poops look like?

 

[JustBabyMargo]

She lays like maybe once or twice a week but they are larger than jumbo so the shells aren’t super hard. I haven’t because I don’t have the heart or gut to do it. She can’t poop all she can do is squeeze out maybe a drop of that liquidity bubbly white stuff but there is just a lot of straining. We soaked her again but it’s not helping. I think it might be too late because she is old and her eggs are too big to pass. We had her separated but that just made her depressed so we put her with her friends and she perked up a little but she’s too sick.

 

[SilkySilkie]

does she always close her eyes like this ever close eyes and rock a little while standing?

 

[JustBabyMargo]

does she always close her eyes like this ever close eyes and rock a little while standing?

Not the whole time like if the others are freaking out or we are doing something but she’s mostly just standing and resting.

 

[JustBabyMargo]

She lays like maybe once or twice a week but they are larger than jumbo so the shells aren’t super hard. I haven’t because I don’t have the heart or gut to do it. She can’t poop all she can do is squeeze out maybe a drop of that liquidity bubbly white stuff but there is just a lot of straining. We soaked her again but it’s not helping. I think it might be too late because she is old and her eggs are too big to pass. We had her separated but that just made her depressed so we put her with her friends and she perked up a little but she’s too sick.View attachment 2794296

Oh and also when she jumped into the nest box she was laying a bunch of egg whites. But then she kept jumping down then back up and now she’s just sitting there.

 

[SilkySilkie]

have you checked other old threads yet?

 

[SilkySilkie]

poor hen

 

[Jenessa_096]

Can you feel an egg? Are you certain it’s egg-bound?