Thanks for the prayers. My chickens are my pets also. Sorry to read about your troubles. I went thru that last year. I ordered 9 chicks from a hatchery and lost all 6 of my Belgian D'Anvers, one at 5 days old one at 7 days old so the first thing I said to myself, what about the other 4? Sure enough lost 3rd and 4th at 3 months old lost one at 4 months old and the last one at 6months old. Not sure what they had. Too late to send the 3 months old to Raleigh, waiting to hear from the Agricultral agent to tell me what to do. Because I live so far, I have to mail mine, have to have them within 24 hrs. The 4 month old died on a Friday so the guy at the lab said he couldn't be sure she would get there before they left for the day only work a half of day on Sat. and the last one died the day after Christmas so I figured nobody there being it was during the holiday. One of the Belgians was a crossbeak and the EE bantams I ordered, are standards. They refund me for those four and the 2 day olds they will replace with standards if I order again. So have to watch hatchery chicks to. Hope I can save this one she is pretty weak.I don't know anything about egg binding/breaking, but as far as antibiotics (recently whole flock picked up something respiratory from adult birds I brought in) I had the best results with Tylan 50 injections. I did 1 CC injection to the breast, they sell both the medicine and syringes at feed stores. But that may be a high antibiotic for an egg stuck?
I had no luck with Duramycin, either the 10 soluble or the injectible.
If you do injections, stick with the breast. I didn't think I could get a clear shot at the breast since my chicken was losing weight so I put it in her thigh and must have nicked a nerve because she hobbled around for a week.
Try googling about egg binding or typing it in the search here, sorry I can't be more helpful on that.
Best of luck to you, sending chicken prayers your way
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