Eggbound?

[LegbarMama]

This is my 7 month old pullet. She started limping last week so I separated her from the flock. I then found her in a dark corner of our barn and it seemed as tho she was going to lay an egg, which would have been her first egg. The egg never came so I ended up giving her a warm bath. This morning I gave her an Epsom salt bath and fed her calcium in her water. Still no egg. Any suggestions would be great. Thank you

 

[All4Eggz]

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@Wyorp Rock

 

[Wyorp Rock]

What's her poop like?
What do you feed?

 

[LegbarMama]

What's her poop like?
What do you feed?

She hasn't been pooping much but the little bit that comes out is runny. I've been feeding them flock raiser crumbles.

 

[Shadrach]

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This is my 7 month old pullet. She started limping last week so I separated her from the flock. I then found her in a dark corner of our barn and it seemed as tho she was going to lay an egg, which would have been her first egg. The egg never came so I ended up giving her a warm bath. This morning I gave her an Epsom salt bath and fed her calcium in her water. Still no egg. Any suggestions would be great. Thank you

Some pullets will visit a nest site for a number of days before they lay their first egg.
Often the first egg is very small and sometimes shell-less.
Bathing her and giving her epsom salts is not going to help unless she is actually egg bound; it just stresses her even further.
As long as she is eating, drinking and not showing any signs of distress the best thing to do is leave her to get on with it.
Pullets laying their first egg rarely suffer from a lack of calcium. As they head toward laying, they start to store calcium from their feed. It doesn't take much regular calcium intake when a hen is not laying to build up a suffiicient store for those first few eggs. Once hse has laid her first egg, that is the time to increase the amount of calcium she has in her diet.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She hasn't been pooping much but the little bit that comes out is runny. I've been feeding them flock raiser crumbles.

Is her crop emptying?
Photos of the poop?

The limping is concerning for sure, it's been going on for a week or so now?
I would let her loose and see how well she moves about and if the others pick on her. I don't think she's actually egg bound - meaning and egg is stuck in the cloaca. She may have something else going on, but it's hard to know unless you notice something else.

 

[Lizzy733]

No bumblefoot?

If a hen is uncomfortable or feeling abdominal pain, you may catch them favouring one foot or the other and they'll likely be puffed up and mopey or not their usual perky self. Not flocking or 'going through the motions' with little enthusiasm.

If it's the same foot each time, inspect the leg. If it's an injury, the skin may be bruised green - it usually takes around 3 days from injury for a bruise to actually show up.

Epsom salt soaks can be good for injuries and assist with softening bumblefoot scabs before removal etc... I made a habit of bathing my hens from a young age to desensitizing them to it, but if they've never been bathed before, it can be a stressful experience.

Mine typically enjoy bath time though... Particularly my Silkie. She gets maintenance baths and purrs all the way through. - especially during brush and blowdry.

 

[LegbarMama]

Thank you for your replies! Yall were right, she is definitely not eggbound. But she is not getting up and moving at all which has caused her to get lice so that is another thing we're dealing with at the moment. As far as I can tell she doesn't have bumblefoot. I thought maybe she injured her leg flying from a perch but there are no visible injuries. I am at a loss