- May 20, 2009
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Hi all. Just thought I'd share this experience so anyone with this situatio might benefit. My one egg a day araucana hen sat for three days about four or five hours each time trying to lay. The third day she seemed concerned and even came over and hopped up on my lap such she never does and just sat there as if to say help me. She walked a little odd too. So I did some research and figured she was eggbound. I brought her in and gave her a calcium tablet ground with a pestle with a little water and 55 my of aspirin. Squirted it in her mouth with a needleless syringe. She just swallowed it down. Then I squirted about a tabespoon of flax oil down her mouth with the syringe. Then I took a larger needleless syringe and squirted about three tablespoons of olive oil up her vent. Her vent was pumping and contracting constantly with her efforts to push the egg. I had felt the egg deep down below in her abdomen. I was careful to aim the syringe up not down when lubricating the vent. I just stuck it in about a half inch or less straight then gently aimed it upwards and squirted the contents in. I did this lubricating while she stood in a bucket of very warm water that covered her almost over top of wings. She just raised her little hind end in the air and did't fuss at all while I administered the treatment. Then I just let her sit in the water for about 40 minutes. And she just calmly laid in the water while I went about some chores. She was in a dimly lit bathroom. After that time passed she squawked and lept to the edge of the bucket so I took her out wrapped her in a thick towel and set her in a large Tupperware container with a heat lamp over it and a hot water bottle next to her body. She lay very quiet for an hour in a dark closet. I repeated the bath three times in three hours sometimes using a blow dryer to dry her butt a while first. She loved it. The third time I put her in the nest box and then checked her she literally was standing on her chest with legs and butt up in the air and vent contracting continually. I lived the vent again with more olive oil in the large syringe. At this point I as very worried and really figures she might not make it. It was about seven in the evening. So she had had three one hour baths each time ending them herself with a sqwawk and then a greasy poop and a jump out of the bucket (which was low enough for her to see iver the edge of as she relaxed in her tub. and internal and external living and calcium to relax her muscles and aspirin for her discomfort. After three more hours of letting her set in her warm dark nest box I finally went to check her at ten o'clock. There was the egg and she was happy as could be .
