I found a hen inside a nest box a couple of hours ago obviously straining to expel an egg. Picked her up and saw slight prolapse, and yellow egg yolk drained from her vent. Brought her inside and immediately gave calcium citrate tablet and did epsom salts soak. Contractions began just now approx. 30-40 minutes after calcium tablet, but hen couldn't push egg out. I tried to manually manipulate it out after greasing with antibiotic ointment. No luck and egg seems HUGE. I think it's too large to pass through her vent. And does liquid egg yolk mean second broken egg behind the huge stuck egg?! I've never done syringe egg extraction procedure before, but i have syringes. If needed could someone please help me through it? @azygous @Wyorp Rock @Eggcessive anyone else with knowledge to help.
The patient is a four year old hen. She doesn't seem obviously distressed over her predicament Yet, but I am distressed because she is one of my top favorite hens, & understand this is a dire emergency. My internet signal is very poor, so if someone posts here and I don't respond immediately, it may be that I can read your post(s) but my reply won't go through. (It took another 30+minutes of valuable time for this one photo to load, and I gave up waiting for the others. If i don't answer back immediately, please bear with me as I seek your help in trying to save this hen.)
p.s. I just now checked before posting this thread in hopes she passed the egg and this thread wouldn't be necessary. Nope. And it's now been a little over 2 hours since I found her in nest box.
Photo showing huge egg protruding that can't pass through. This photo was taken after calcium citrate re-started contractions. She was pushing Hard.
The patient is a four year old hen. She doesn't seem obviously distressed over her predicament Yet, but I am distressed because she is one of my top favorite hens, & understand this is a dire emergency. My internet signal is very poor, so if someone posts here and I don't respond immediately, it may be that I can read your post(s) but my reply won't go through. (It took another 30+minutes of valuable time for this one photo to load, and I gave up waiting for the others. If i don't answer back immediately, please bear with me as I seek your help in trying to save this hen.)
p.s. I just now checked before posting this thread in hopes she passed the egg and this thread wouldn't be necessary. Nope. And it's now been a little over 2 hours since I found her in nest box.
Photo showing huge egg protruding that can't pass through. This photo was taken after calcium citrate re-started contractions. She was pushing Hard.
I tried again to manually manipulate egg out. Was able to get my finger around to back of egg. It felt like "something" was holding on to the intact egg protruding from her vent. So maybe protruding egg isn't as huge as I thought, but somehow being held onto by a collapsed egg portion behind the protruding egg? 
Feeling desperate helpless and lost and don't know what to do. And the @#$% lack of internet signal isn't helping.
