Liquid poo, and no eggs.

[ChickMom6002]

Hello! I'm a mum of a rooster and a hen, they are both about 6-7 months old now- But this isn't about the rooster!
The hen is a barred Plymouth rock and she has been pooping liquid a lot more often now, is it cause shes about to lay a egg? She hasn't laid a egg before all this behavior, shes also, as im typing this, pecking the wired bottom of their coop. I put a box of grass in there a few minutes ago to let her make a nest if this is egg related, but besides the egg laying, why is she pooping liquid?
Help is greatly appreciated!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The only time watery diarrhea is related to egg laying is if the pullet is egg bound.
She will continually enter the nest to try and pass the egg. Her abdomen and cloaca will pulse and she may moan continually.
Egg binding is more common with new layers and it happens when the vagina can't turn the egg and the muscles can't push the egg out.
What makes up your chickens' diet?
Otherwise, watery droppings aren't egg related. It's possibly from the heat and drinking more water than normal. It's best to have a nest box available for pullets by the time they are 5 months of age.
An egg spends about 24 hours in the oviduct from ovulation to the time it is laid. Upon ovulation, the ovum spends about 15 minutes in the infundibulum where it is fertilized. The next 3 hours are in the magnum where the thick albumen is added. The next hour plus the inner and outer membranes are added in the isthmus. The egg then spends 20 hours or more in the uterus or shell gland where the shell is formed and any pigment added.

 

[ChickMom6002]

We (my family) are trying to find a good feed for pet roosters and hens, so we are still feeding them chick starter and grower, but we are going to separate them so we can feed them differently and she can lay her eggs in peace. She probably is going to lay a egg and isn't egg bound, she keeps making a weird humming noise, and walking around pecking/clawing. We will watch her and tell you if anything happens.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

She'll need calcium soon. You can continue the starter/grower, just offer her some oyster shell in a separate container.
The humming noise concerns me.
Pets or livestock, they're still chickens and need the same food.
I have mixed flocks so have oyster shell with each flock and usually feed an All Flock feed but grower works too.

 

[ChickMom6002]

She just laid the smallest brown egg (its so cute!) ill get pictures soon, we are going to the store and getting hay and some food for hens!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Pick up some oyster shell while you're there. Put it in a separate container by the feeder or also by the nest box.

 

[Barbiefine]

I have 4 hens. 3 are laying. I see liquid poop. How do I know which one it is, and if it's egg bound? And what do I do for it?

 

[ChickMom6002]

we got some calcium, shes laying eggs every 47 hours, and today we're separating the roo away from the hen (he keeps trying to fertilize the eggs, and hide in the nesting box)
ty for helping!