Erika4
Hatching
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I'm a new chicken owner; I have 4 leghorns and a white Plymouth Rock. They are almost a year old. They have all been great layers for the 8 months they've been in my care.
About a week ago, i noticed one of them was rather lethargic, she was closing her eyes and standing off to the side of the run while the others pecked at the treats I had thrown down. She also had very bloody/poopy feathers around her vent and underneath. A couple weeks prior to this there were a couple shell-less eggs laid, but that resolved itself after adding oyster shells to their diet. A week after the rubber egg episodes, I found a bloody egg each day for about 3 days. All the hens seemed fine though, until last week when the one was lethargic and bloody.
I have isolated her from the others and have soaked her bottom in a couple of warm baths in the last week. She is eating and drinking. I give her time in the late afternoon to run around the yard. She is not walking funny. I have checked inside, assuming she is egg bound, but I haven't found an egg. I'm certainly no expert at this process, but I honestly didn't feel any egg. I did find what seemed to be very small remnants of eggshell, and removed those. Also found some sort of small fleshy matter that wasn't poop, (reminded me of the insides of a store-bought whole chicken), and removed that as it was not attached to anything. She still has not laid an egg in a week. Could this be because she is sick? Or is isolating her (she's in a large-ish box in my open garage) not letting her get enough daylight to produce an egg? I'm afraid to reintroduce her to the flock yet because then I won't know if she had laid an egg or not, unless I get 5 in one day.
Any advice? She seems fine now, other than not laying an egg for the last week. They usually lay an egg nearly every day.
Thanks so much for your time and patience with a newbie as myself
Erika
I'm a new chicken owner; I have 4 leghorns and a white Plymouth Rock. They are almost a year old. They have all been great layers for the 8 months they've been in my care.
About a week ago, i noticed one of them was rather lethargic, she was closing her eyes and standing off to the side of the run while the others pecked at the treats I had thrown down. She also had very bloody/poopy feathers around her vent and underneath. A couple weeks prior to this there were a couple shell-less eggs laid, but that resolved itself after adding oyster shells to their diet. A week after the rubber egg episodes, I found a bloody egg each day for about 3 days. All the hens seemed fine though, until last week when the one was lethargic and bloody.
I have isolated her from the others and have soaked her bottom in a couple of warm baths in the last week. She is eating and drinking. I give her time in the late afternoon to run around the yard. She is not walking funny. I have checked inside, assuming she is egg bound, but I haven't found an egg. I'm certainly no expert at this process, but I honestly didn't feel any egg. I did find what seemed to be very small remnants of eggshell, and removed those. Also found some sort of small fleshy matter that wasn't poop, (reminded me of the insides of a store-bought whole chicken), and removed that as it was not attached to anything. She still has not laid an egg in a week. Could this be because she is sick? Or is isolating her (she's in a large-ish box in my open garage) not letting her get enough daylight to produce an egg? I'm afraid to reintroduce her to the flock yet because then I won't know if she had laid an egg or not, unless I get 5 in one day.
Any advice? She seems fine now, other than not laying an egg for the last week. They usually lay an egg nearly every day.
Thanks so much for your time and patience with a newbie as myself
Erika
