I think my Pullet might be egg bound - Help!

[chickenlittle21]

She could be egg bound. Give her a warm Epsom salt bath.
https://the-chicken-chick.com/chicken-egg-binding-causes-symptoms/

 

[afieldssnowyegger]

We just crushed up some tums in scrambled eggs, but she was too sleepy to eat it tonight. We’ll try again tomorrow. I started seeing the symptoms about three or four days ago but I wasn’t sure what was going on

 

[Parront]

We just crushed up some tums in scrambled eggs, but she was too sleepy to eat it tonight. We’ll try again tomorrow. I started seeing the symptoms about three or four days ago but I wasn’t sure what was going on

Keep pushing the Sav-a-chick. If it is dark and that is why she is sleeping, good. But if it is in a lighted room and she is acting sleepy, not good. A can of tuna is the ultimate food for mine, if you can put the crushed tums in the tuna juice she might eat it. You can give a bird the liquid calcium glucconate with an eyedropper on the side of the beak, but you have to be super careful that they swallow it. You can hold the dropper up and if they see the hanging drop they will drink it like it was a nipple drinker.

 

[lovesfarms]

I've never had an egg bound chicken so I'm not sure what it's like but I hope she gets better real soon. I just know it's not fun having to worry about a sick chicken?

 

[aart]

I’ve given some garlic water this morning, and scrambled eggs this evening, as she still hasn’t been eating her feed.

Not sure the point of this, or why she wouldn't be eating her regular feed.
Any other 'extras' being fed?
Is she pooping?

I now feel a large round lump beneath/behind her vent.

I'd isolate her in a wire cage within the coop for a day or two....so I can closely monitor their intake of food and water, crop function(checking at night and in morning before providing more feed), and their poops. Feel their abdomen, from below vent to between legs, for squishy or hard swelling. Check for external parasites or any other abnormalities.

Best to put crate right in coop or run so bird is still 'with' the flock.
I like to use a fold-able wire dog crate (24"L x 18"W x 21"H) with smaller mesh(1x2) on bottom of crate under tray.
Then you can put tray underneath crate to better observe droppings without it being stepped in. If smaller mesh is carefully installed, tray can still be used inside crate.

 

[afieldssnowyegger]

So I'm not quite sure what happened, but she's COMPLETELY back to normal today. Red comb (it was pale before), no more mass in her abdomen, normal crop, she was eating her food as much as the other chickens were, solid poops, running around, clucking, eating bugs and grass, personality back to normal, etc. It's very weird, and I don't have an explanation for how she got better. Quite honestly I just prayed for hours last night that she'd be perfectly fine and normal in the morning. And I woke up today, and she was fine.

 

[afieldssnowyegger]

And the garlic water was given when we suspected sour crop. No other treats though, other than the scrambled eggs. Also no parasites that I can see, or anything else out of the norm.