EMERGENCY Hen acting weird!

[SalChickenOwner]

Hello all,

Today when I got home my hen has been acting very strange, she started waddling (walking like if something is bothering her in between her legs) she has been laying and has definitely played 10+ I have no idea what's wrong with her. Her comb has black tips and it is now floppy when it has always been pretty stable.

 

[nuthatched]

What's her diet? When did she last lay?

 

[SalChickenOwner]

What's her diet? When did she last lay?

She layed an egg yesterday and she mainly eats crushed corn and a mixture of seeds and such and we sprinkle of lettuce and other vegetables (not always)

 

[nuthatched]

She layed an egg yesterday and she mainly eats crushed corn and a mixture of seeds and such and we sprinkle of lettuce and other vegetables (not always)

Does she get any real chicken feed?
What's her age?
Has she ever been wormed?

 

[SalChickenOwner]

Does she get any real chicken feed?
What's her age?
Has she ever been wormed?

Yes all natural chicken feed and sometimes these brown pellets that were also recommended to me they were expensive

 

[nuthatched]

Yes all natural chicken feed and sometimes these brown pellets that were also recommended to me they were expensive

And what are those? The feed and the pellets?

 

[SalChickenOwner]

And what are those? The feed and

Browns layer booster daily diet chicken feed but I didn't give her it daily and the other one would be producers pride scratch grains

 

[nuthatched]

Browns layer booster daily diet chicken feed but I didn't give her it daily and the other one would be producers pride scratch grains

Quit the scratch grains completely. Feed nothing but the real feed. Scratch grains is not "natural chicken feed", it's junkfood for chickens, It’s not good for her.
it's low in essential nutrition like protein, calcium, vitamins and minerals and high in carbs and fat. It's like a steady diet of fries and candy.
She is likely struggling to lay an egg, she doesn't have the strength to lay it.
Do you have any tums or calcium citrate? You need to give her one to help her contractions. Let her go back to.the coop to lay her egg and check on her in an hour.
If she hasn't, we need try a few more things.

 

[SalChickenOwner]

Quit the scratch grains completely. Feed nothing but the real feed. Scratch grains is not "natural chicken feed", it's junkfood for chickens, It’s not good for her.
it's low in essential nutrition like protein, calcium, vitamins and minerals and high in carbs and fat. It's like a steady diet of fries and candy.
She is likely struggling to lay an egg, she doesn't have the strength to lay it.
Do you have any tums or calcium citrate? You need to give her one to help her contractions. Let her go back to.the coop to lay her egg and check on her in an hour.
If she hasn't, we need try a few more things.

Ok i will, Do you mean antacid tums??

 

[SalChickenOwner]

Quit the scratch grains completely. Feed nothing but the real feed. Scratch grains is not "natural chicken feed", it's junkfood for chickens, It’s not good for her.
it's low in essential nutrition like protein, calcium, vitamins and minerals and high in carbs and fat. It's like a steady diet of fries and candy.
She is likely struggling to lay an egg, she doesn't have the strength to lay it.
Do you have any tums or calcium citrate? You need to give her one to help her contractions. Let her go back to.the coop to lay her egg and check on her in an hour.
If she hasn't, we need try a few more things.

I also hatched 5 chicks from six of her eggs so they seem healthy