Chickensarefeathereddogs
In the Brooder
- Oct 24, 2021
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Hello, I've got a 10 1/2 month old Andalusian looking hen, who feels very eggbound and full, named Billie Joe. We noticed last Sunday afternoon when we'd picked her up. She's been separate from the other chickens in dog crate with plenty of pine shavings, water, and food. Billie Joe circles and is making nests, but has had no progress in getting the eggs closer to getting out. Her back side and abdomen are very swollen and bloated, and after a bath and massage we can make out what feels to be three or four eggs in her. Right under the vent, it feels there's a large egg so that's probably the problem. Since Sunday, we've given her multiple baths a day. We've given her calcium carbonate, and crushed tums. We've used olive oil on and in her vent. We've even tried feeling the egg from inside Billie multiple times, and every time it still feels like there's a membrane between our finger and what we think to be the closest egg, so we can't even break the egg as a last chance.
We're stuck at what to do, we've tried everything that we've found.
Last time Billie Joe laid was right around March 21. We didn't think too much of the inconsistency because other hens had just started laying more consistently after this winter.
But now the odd part-
Billie Joe is still eating and pooping normal, and acting happy and relatively content. She's even seeming to still enjoy us drying her with a hair dryer and petting her, something that's mostly new to her. Other than being bloated, she's acting completely normal.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
We're stuck at what to do, we've tried everything that we've found.
Last time Billie Joe laid was right around March 21. We didn't think too much of the inconsistency because other hens had just started laying more consistently after this winter.
But now the odd part-
Billie Joe is still eating and pooping normal, and acting happy and relatively content. She's even seeming to still enjoy us drying her with a hair dryer and petting her, something that's mostly new to her. Other than being bloated, she's acting completely normal.
Any help is greatly appreciated.