Eggbound? Internal Layer? Anything else I can do?

[featherz]

Have a 2 year old Production red (hatchery) that I noticed standing around like a penguin today (head up tail down waddling slowly) refusing to get out of the rain. She's still eating and drinking and I know she laid an egg at least two days ago (since I have four reds and had four brown eggs that day). No way of knowing if she laid one of the three eggs I got yesterday or the two today. She's quite perky (as a matter of fact she's hollering in my isolation cage now - NOT happy to be there LOL) and is eating and drinking. Poo looks normal. The four reds in this coop lay medium-ish eggs, never any giant eggs. They are 'ok' layers, not really prolific.

I put her in my isolation cage, checked her rear - no obvious egg, no prolapse, no swollen belly. Vent is pulsing a slight bit and is a little open. Used a gloved oiled hand to check and felt no egg, but I assume it could be higher up where I can't get to it. Just in case, I gave her a bit of tums in water. Not able to do a bath tonight so she's resting in the darkened cage to keep her calm.

Does this sound eggbound to everyone else? I'll do the bath in the AM if indicated. She seems to be calm now except not happy at me. (but she's still standing around like a penguin).

 

[featherz]

Gave her a warm bath this morning. She's still eating well - gave her a yogurt/tums mixture and a hardboiled egg. Tail still down and she still looks like she wants to lay an egg, but I can't feel an egg in the vent or in her abdomen. Hmm.

 

[speckledhen]

Crush up a Tums for a shot of emergency calcium carbonate and make sure she takes it in something, like maybe plain yogurt if she likes that. That is a recommended measure when you have a situation like this. Not sure it will help.

If you're sure she's laying, then she may have a soft egg that is hard to pass or one that broke in the oviduct. Once they're laying internally, you rarely see them get an egg out at all so if you know she laid an egg a few days ago, that's good.

 

[featherz]

Crush up a Tums for a shot of emergency calcium carbonate and make sure she takes it in something, like maybe plain yogurt if she likes that. That is a recommended measure when you have a situation like this. Not sure it will help.

If you're sure she's laying, then she may have a soft egg that is hard to pass or one that broke in the oviduct. Once they're laying internally, you rarely see them get an egg out at all so if you know she laid an egg a few days ago, that's good.

Yep, she's already had tums and yogurt twice. She doesn't seem like my past internal layers, who mostly just stood around acting dejected with egg yolk poo - she seems like she is actually trying to lay an egg. However, I palpated her abdomen and felt nothing there. You may be right, it could be a soft shell. I put her outside with her buds again and will bring her in again tonight for another bath if no better.