My hen is egg bound!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=26414
Good thread on this.

 

Soak her in a warm water bath, also you can try putting some KY jelly up there with a syringe, if you can get around the edge of the egg...

I hate to tell you this, but from a veterinary standpoint...eggbound chicken = very, very bad... It's not like other egg bound birds.

 

Hi, sorry you are having this problem. Are you 100% sure she is eggbound? The best thing you can do is a nice warm dishpan of water and let her sit in it. It will relax her and hopefully the egg will pass. If not, dry her with a blow dryer and try reaching up her vent to see if you can move the egg. I recommend rubber gloves and some Vaseline as a lubricant for that procedure. Try not to break it.

Good luck.

 

Lube your finger up and get your finger up there, find the egg/shell or whatever it is and pull it out. Thats what I have done. Soaking the bird in warm water didnt work for me. My bird had a soft shell egg up there that broke and I had to pull it out piece by piece. She lived to tell the story, didnt want a thing to do with me for a long time after that.

 

How do you know a chicken is egg bound?

 

Everyone has given you good advise. After you give her a good soak and have checked to see if you can feel the egg, then you need to put her into a quiet place where it's warm, maybe a heating pad covered with a towel for her to sit on, or towels right out of the dryer.

 

Good news...