Egg Laying after being sick

[Harpal5158]

Hi Guys
one of my girls, got sick, she got the runny poohs, with the real messy backside feathers. We did all of the proper clean up, fed her yoghurt daily in some mash and injected some yoghurt in her mouth with a syringe a tiny bit at a time. Didn't want to choke the poor girl. Connie has been clean for over 2 weeks now and she is still not laying. is there something i can do to help this process along, or possibly could she now be able to lay any more eggs. Connie is only 40 weeks old, still a young chicky babe.
If someone could enlighten me here that would be amazing.
cheers
Sylvana

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Let's look at ovulation and what that requires. The bird needs to be healthy. The nutrition has to be appropriate
Do you have any idea what her health issue was?
What are you feeding your birds?

 

[Harpal5158]

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Let's look at ovulation and what that requires. The bird needs to be healthy. The nutrition has to be appropriate
Do you have any idea what her health issue was?
What are you feeding your birds?

hi thanks for you reply, Connie had the cystitis, where she was doing loose poohs, and her feathers were all black on her bottom area, and she was very lethargic, not eating or drinking and staying on her own. She is mixing with her sisters now and she is eating heaps, running around and generally being a good girl, but she is still not laying any eggs.
All of her other sisters lay daily and the eggs are beautiful, hard shells, and big and perfectly shaped and gorgeous colouring on their egg shells.
we feed our girls, laying pellets from the pet barn. We feed them fresh lettuce from our garden, fresh spinach from our garden and we also feed the girls cooked porridge with probiotic yoghurt about 3 times per week.
They are will fed and well looked after. We have a water system that flushes their water twice daily and we clean their water with a brush weekly.
All i need to know, really is would her sickness have caused her to become barrren and stop laying forever.
cheers
sylvana

 

[Marie2020]

Similar situation going on here with one of my little girls, I've been using cider vinegar in the water starter feed and kelfir when I can get it. So watching this thread too see if I can learn something else I can do.

 

[Marie2020]

Don't know how to edit. I would like to add that I have temporally cut out the porridge for now.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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hi thanks for you reply, Connie had the cystitis, where she was doing loose poohs, and her feathers were all black on her bottom area, and she was very lethargic, not eating or drinking and staying on her own. She is mixing with her sisters now and she is eating heaps, running around and generally being a good girl, but she is still not laying any eggs.
All of her other sisters lay daily and the eggs are beautiful, hard shells, and big and perfectly shaped and gorgeous colouring on their egg shells.
we feed our girls, laying pellets from the pet barn. We feed them fresh lettuce from our garden, fresh spinach from our garden and we also feed the girls cooked porridge with probiotic yoghurt about 3 times per week.
They are will fed and well looked after. We have a water system that flushes their water twice daily and we clean their water with a brush weekly.
All i need to know, really is would her sickness have caused her to become barrren and stop laying forever.
cheers
sylvana

Good job on the automated water system. I'd like to learn more about that.
As I understand cystitis, it is a bladder inflammation caused by a bacterial infection. I'm not aware of it is a problem in birds.
If it were an infection that caused the cessation of laying, I suppose it may have also infected the ovary. I would up the protein a bit by switching the layer for a starter or grower feed about 18-20%. She isn't laying anyway and you can temporarily offer oyster shell for those still laying.
At the same time, I would also eliminate all the other things from the diet temporarily to see if her laying resumes. The starter feed will provide all the nutrition they need with a bit more crude protein. While nutritious on their own, lettuce, spinach and porridge can all be lowering the protein and more importantly, some of the essential amino accids.

 

[Marie2020]

@ChickenCanoe how would we be able to deal with an infected ovary? Do you think a chicken would bennifit with a small amount of colidial silver if this was the case?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I wouldn't know the answer to that or even if it is discernible.
I also don't know anything about colloidal silver.
I would contact an avian pathologist and get their opinion. Where do you live?

 

[Folly's place]

Did you have an actual diagnosis, or a 'best guess'? She had something wrong, and is now better, but her egg laying system may still be 'on hold', for more time, or longer. Adding colloidal silver is a bad idea!
Mary

 

[Marie2020]

Did you have an actual diagnosis, or a 'best guess'? She had something wrong, and is now better, but her egg laying system may still be 'on hold', for more time, or longer. Adding colloidal silver is a bad idea!
Mary

Thank you for your reply. My girl is really well now, her feathers are back and she's eating as much as she can get. You're correct, there's still no eggs. She's just over a year old. During the beginning of lockdown this was a man behind us started burning vile things for weeks on end when he stopped doing that he started smashing up all sorts, concrete and what ever he could, she stopped laying and hasn't ever since. I thought she had a water infection but all that's cleared up
She's really content so not worried about her. I have left a egg shaped stone along with an egg in their box, to see if this will entice her. I really cannot think of anything else. Except a vet but we're still on lockdown and the vet we need is miles away.