It may not matter a whole lot, but fwiw it sure sounds like your hen's problem is that she's laying internally, not that she's eggbound (it is possible she is *also* eggbound, but the internal laying is the more serious issue). You can search this forum for other threads on the subject, but the reader's digest version is that the future is generally bleak once they get like that (although expensive surgery could be done).
I had one quite like what you describe -- you could feel an egg in there, but she was also swollen abdominally and passing sort of 'petrified yolk' things and even after we broke the egg (after ~2 wks of it being wedged in there) she remained all full and 'soggy'. She seemed relatively happy for about a month and a half, then took a turn for the worse one afternoon and was cold and stiff the next morning. Poor thing.
I'd say do what you can to keep her comfortable.
Best of luck,
Pat
I had one quite like what you describe -- you could feel an egg in there, but she was also swollen abdominally and passing sort of 'petrified yolk' things and even after we broke the egg (after ~2 wks of it being wedged in there) she remained all full and 'soggy'. She seemed relatively happy for about a month and a half, then took a turn for the worse one afternoon and was cold and stiff the next morning. Poor thing.
I'd say do what you can to keep her comfortable.
Best of luck,
Pat