Might be eggbound please give comments and suggestions!

blue fire

Crowing
14 Years
May 2, 2007
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My Maran hen has never laid an egg, she is around 10 months old. She eats Layena pellet food, she is free range, and lives with 6 other hens. She eats very little and poops very little, but the poop looks normal. She is very listless and unenergetic. She had been sick 2 times before with a mystery illness but has recovered, but her vision has been compromised. I had wormed her after her illness horse wormer. Her behind has seemed to have swollen, it is squishy and sensitive. She has had these symptoms for quite a while, maybe a month. What do you think is going on?
 
There are many threads on egg binding that you could find by using the search option above,if you haven't already. I've not experienced it but I know one of the first things that's recommended is to place the chicken in a warm bath to try to loosen up the muscles and get the egg through. Others recommend inserting a finger partly up the vent to see if you can feel one. Or you could palpitate her abdoment feeling for one.

Soft and squishy sounds more like ascites, or abdominal fluid, rather than egg bound.

But I agree that something should be done for her.

Good luck, Mary
 
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