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Patrick ~ I think I recall you posting a blue egg from one of your CL hens. Are you going to set any for the new year's hatch along? I still don't have any eggs worthy of incubating from my RIR so if I do set eggs it would be a very small amount. I'm leaning towards dropping out of the hatch a long. But if you were hatching chicks, then I would set some eggs, just in hopes of having some brooder buddies for any extra females you hatched.
 
kabhyper1 said:
Okay guys, I have a problem. One of my Wyandottes, Jules, was showing some vent distress tonight. she had her down dropped like she was passing stool and her vent was red and pulsating. I brought her inside and gave her a warm epsom salt bath. I cleaned her fluff since it was kinda matted and her abdomen felt squishy and swollen. I checked her vent and didn't feel an egg or anything else. I blow dried her off and dusted her butt with DE, and decided with our very cold temps to let her sleep inside in a doggy kennel. I gave her water with drench, poly vi sol and ACV in it, some chick starter ( which they all got switched to last week, with free choice oyster shell) a hard boiled egg, shell and all smashed up with DE sprinkled on it, and some spinach leaves. She ate a bunch of the egg and some food. She has a good appetite, and her stool looks normal. I heard a bit of wheezing, and when I brought her in initially, a bit of fluid came out of her beak. I think I may have squeezed her crop in the process of bringing her in. She wasn't loving it. Anyway, I went and checked on her a little while ago and she was standing in egg yolk and whites. I found a small piece of soft egg shell also. Not the whole thing though. Will she pass that? She acts like she feels better, and her abdominal swelling went down quite a bit. Her coloring is great, and has been. I changed her bedding and turned out the light for the night. She did plenty of talking to me about it too after she passed it. lol.

My Jules with the boys. (Gus has disposed of some of her back feathers.)
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From your description it sounds like she was egg bound. Good reaction, giving her a bath and bringing her, making her comfortable. I'm sure the bath it was what most helped making her pass it. You might see a tad more whites or shell if it hasnt all came out. But as long as a good amount came out I wouldn't worry. Maybe just give her another bath to be to be safe, but I wouldnt say it is nessacary but It wont hurt. And I would keep an eye her just to make certain it doesn't happen again. Just because it happened to her once doesnt mean it will happen frequently or even ever again, but I would watch her
 
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From your description it sounds like she was egg bound. Good reaction, giving her a bath and bringing her, making her comfortable. I'm sure the bath it was what most helped making her pass it. You might see a tad more whites or shell if it hasnt all came out. But as long as a good amount came out I wouldn't worry. Maybe just give her another bath to be to be safe, but I wouldnt say it is nessacary but It wont hurt. And I would keep an eye her just to make certain it doesn't happen again. Just because it happened to her once doesnt mean it will happen frequently or even ever again, but I would watch her
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Thank you! I was worried about the rest of the soft shell. I am thinking because we switched from layer to chick starter with free choice oyster shell, that maybe she is calcium deficient. I crushed up a tums and put it in her eggs and spinach. I just hope she passes the rest of the shell. She doesn't really want to be in the kennel now, but it is very cold and she had a bath. Plus I want to be able to see how she does tonight.
 
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kabhyper1 said:
Thank you! I was worried about the rest of the soft shell. I am thinking because we switched from layer to chick starter with free choice oyster shell, that maybe she is calcium deficient. I crushed up a tums and put it in her eggs and spinach. I just hope she passes the rest of the shell. She doesn't really want to be in the kennel now, but it is very cold and she had a bath. Plus I want to be able to see how she does tonight.
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I'm sure she wants outside since she feels better. If it were me and she was acting like her normal self I would probably put outside tomorrow mid day. Which is likely to be the warmest part of the day.
 
I will keep an eye on her. Hopefully she passes the rest of the egg. Maybe she passed it today and the yolk and whites and little piece of soft shell was what was left. I hope the rest of my girls are okay. I didn't think switching the feed would make that big of a difference.
 
When I brought one of my girls in last winter (bumblefoot issue) after I was done working with her I would use a hair drier (on low and with my hand to diffuse the heat) and dried her off then put her back outside. I was concerned that the difference in indoor and outdoor temp would be too much to reacclimate her to.

Is she acting sick or droopy at all? Or does she appear her normal self?
 

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