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[edamaske]

It's been a few days now, my hen is walking and eating and she is purning. Everyone seems to have stopped picking on her. BUT I have found a broken egg and this morning it looks like has a bloody goop hanging under her. Should I be concerned?

 

[edamaske]

I am guessing this is a broken egg. These guys are not easy to handle I'm not sure if I will be able to catch her again keeping her locked up I don't think was helping with stress. I have uped the calcium in their food any other suggestions with out catching g her?

 

[DylansMom]

I am guessing this is a broken egg. These guys are not easy to handle I'm not sure if I will be able to catch her again

keeping her locked up I don't think was helping with stress. I have uped the calcium in their food any other suggestions with out catching g her?

Is there anyway you can try to get us a picture of the possible broken egg, and does it seem like it had a soft shell? Secondly if you can get a zoomed in photo of the "bloody goop", that would maybe help.

 

[edamaske]

 

[KsKingBee]

Is there anyway you can try to get us a picture of the possible broken egg, and does it seem like it had a soft shell? Secondly if you can get a zoomed in photo of the "bloody goop", that would maybe help.

Are we looking at a possible prolapsed egg?

I had to deal with one in a chicken two years ago.

 

[edamaske]

 

[edamaske]

I am so new to this, I have never had birds I feel very helpless!! These are the best pictures I could get right now. I will get a picture of the egg when I get home.

 

[DylansMom]

Are we looking at a possible prolapsed egg?

I had to deal with one in a chicken two years ago.

@KsKingBee Can you see anything in those pictures? I can't, but I don't know what else could cause bloody goop? If you dealt with one in a chicken that would make you the expert here, because I've never seen one.

 

[DylansMom]

I am so new to this, I have never had birds I feel very helpless!! These are the best pictures I could get right now. I will get a picture of the egg when I get home.

Don't beat yourself up. You are doing what you can, for birds that you never even intended to have, that in itself is admirable.

We will try to help as much as we can.

 

[KsKingBee]

@KsKingBee Can you see anything in those pictures? I can't, but I don't know what else could cause bloody goop? If you dealt with one in a chicken that would make you the expert here, because I've never seen one.

I can't see anything in this picture. A prolapsed egg looks like the ovaduct is hanging outside the bird with a large and mostly bloody and poo all over it in a mass of sticky nasty feathers. Sorry I haven't time to go look for the pictures I took of it as I have to get started on a really busy day. I'll try to find them this evening.

If it is a prolapsed egg she will need a razor blade, Q-Tips and vaselene. Hot water in a tub for soaking the bird can sometimes free the egg, if that doesn't work more help will have to given to free the egg.

The chicken I cut the egg out of lived and layed many more eggs after that, but sometimes.... the worse can happen.