Help, loose wings and eggs without shells

[Clara12345]

Hello my over a year old sex linked chicken who has always been a good layer has recently started laying eggs without shells. For the pass two months, or so, she has painfully laid an egg without a shell almost every day. She has always been skinny but has reached a new level of boniness and her skin is wrinkly and paler than my other two chickens who show no sickness whatsoever. She eats as much as them of titbits and from the feeder but I sometimes find her crop less than half full before bed.
The past three days She has adopted loose wings that don’t hold tightly to her body making her look round and one of them is drooping slightly.
What should I do? Should I take her to the vet to be put down or wait it out. She’s being wormed with Verm-X and eats a varied diet of vegetables fruits and feed with fresh water and a clean coop but looks like she’s only going to carry on going down hill.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[Clara12345]

Verm-x isn't going to rid her of a worm load if she has one.
She should be crated for the time being, in the coop is fine, so you can easily treat and monitor her input and output.
I would start by giving her one 600 mg calcium tablet with vitamin D daily for at least a week. Most of my girls will eat this right out of my hand if I break the tablet in half. If she will not, you can crush it and put it in a wet treat that she likes or you can restrain her, pull down on her wattles to open her beak and pop the tablet in for her to swallow. Because you would be doing this daily, you need to make this as pleasant a process for her as you can so she will cooperate.
It probably wouldn't hurt to de-worm her with Safeguard liquid goat wormer. Give her 1/2 ml, maybe a little less if she is as thin as you describe. Repeat in 10 days.
Is her crop empty by morning? What do her poops look like?

Thank you I’ve started the tablets already and will order the worming drug. Her poo is usually fine, occasionally she’ll poo a clear liduid poo and before she lays a shelled egg some egg white comes out of her. I’m starting to think that she has hurt her wing and that’s why she can’t hold it upright

 

[Clara12345]

has anybody else has this connection before with shelless eggs and dropped wings?

 

[Clara12345]

Thank you I’ve started the tablets already and will order the worming drug. Her poo is usually fine, occasionally she’ll poo a clear liduid poo and before she lays a shelled egg some egg white comes out of her. I’m starting to think that she has hurt her wing and that’s why she can’t hold it upright

Verm-x isn't going to rid her of a worm load if she has one.
She should be crated for the time being, in the coop is fine, so you can easily treat and monitor her input and output.
I would start by giving her one 600 mg calcium tablet with vitamin D daily for at least a week. Most of my girls will eat this right out of my hand if I break the tablet in half. If she will not, you can crush it and put it in a wet treat that she likes or you can restrain her, pull down on her wattles to open her beak and pop the tablet in for her to swallow. Because you would be doing this daily, you need to make this as pleasant a process for her as you can so she will cooperate.
It probably wouldn't hurt to de-worm her with Safeguard liquid goat wormer. Give her 1/2 ml, maybe a little less if she is as thin as you describe. Repeat in 10 days.
Is her crop empty by morning? What do her poops look like?

I’ll check her crop tomorrow but it always looks empty

 

[MissE]

Is she holding her wings away from her body because she is hot?

 

[Clara12345]

Is she holding her wings away from her body because she is hot?

No it’s one wing that is constantly held down and out. It’s not been too hot where I am

 

[NatJ]

She has always been skinny but has reached a new level of boniness and her skin is wrinkly and paler than my other two chickens who show no sickness whatsoever. She eats as much as them of titbits and from the feeder but I sometimes find her crop less than half full before bed.

She may not be eating enough. You say she eats as much as the others, but if her crop is not full at bedtime she is probably NOT eating as much. A few ideas:

--Look at her beak. Sometimes part of it grows too long, and then the chicken has trouble eating. Compare with the other chickens, and if hers looks about the same, it should be fine.

--Sometimes one chicken gets chased away from the feeder. It sounds like you already checked on this, so probably not the issue here.

--If you pen her by herself as DobieLover suggested, you can see whether she eats more food then. If she has been feeling bad, she might not feel like walking over to the feeder to eat, but having it right in front of her might help.

--Try getting some food wet with water, so it makes a mush, and see if she likes it better that way. Many chickens do.

 

[Clara12345]

She may not be eating enough. You say she eats as much as the others, but if her crop is not full at bedtime she is probably NOT eating as much. A few ideas:

--Look at her beak. Sometimes part of it grows too long, and then the chicken has trouble eating. Compare with the other chickens, and if hers looks about the same, it should be fine.

--Sometimes one chicken gets chased away from the feeder. It sounds like you already checked on this, so probably not the issue here.

--If you pen her by herself as DobieLover suggested, you can see whether she eats more food then. If she has been feeling bad, she might not feel like walking over to the feeder to eat, but having it right in front of her might help.

--Try getting some food wet with water, so it makes a mush, and see if she likes it better that way. Many chickens do.

Great thank you I’ll definitely try feeding her and should I move onto broiler feed or keep her on the verm-X vitamin enriched feed

 

[NatJ]

should I move onto broiler feed or keep her on the verm-X vitamin enriched feed

Either one is probably fine.

You could give her a dish of each and see what she prefers.

Maybe having a choice will help her eat a bit more

 

[Clara12345]

Either one is probably fine.

You could give her a dish of each and see what she prefers.

Maybe having a choice will help her eat a bit more

Good idea thank you for your help