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[micstrachan]

Wonderful news! Keep us posted.

 

[Windy Lane]

Lavender Hen is still eating and drinking but not normal amounts. Still giving vitamin water, poultry grower feed, and blending up peas or blueberries or scrambled eggs or cottage cheese...not all at same time.

I had an ISA go into full blown molt mid January. I wasn't worried knowing she'd cozy up to others and stay warm but 0° hit for a week so I broke down and put her in barn too. She's a distance from my other hen but company for each other as they chit chat. All her feathers are back (albeit dull looking and smaller). Today she laid this lash egg...she eats and drinks like a horse! Shows no signs of any illness.

 

[Eggcessive]

So the lash egg was passed by the hen who molted in Jan, not the lavender hen? Salpingitis, inflammation of the oviduct, causes lash eggs. Many times we don’t see them if the other hens snatch them up first.

 

[Windy Lane]

That is correct - the lash egg was laid by the ISA who just came out of molt. I have Tylan, would that help?

 

[Eggcessive]

No, antibiotics usually don’t help. But if I were going to try an antibiotic, Baytril (enrofloxacin) would be best. It would not hurt her. Dosage of the 10% 100 ml liquid here is 0.05 ml per pound (0.5 ml for a 5 pound hen) given twice a day for 5-6 days. Here is the link:
https://www.jedds.com/shop/misc/

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is some reading about salpingitis and lash eggs:
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/134/salpingitis/

https://the-chicken-chick.com/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard/

 

[Windy Lane]

Here is some reading about salpingitis and lash eggs:
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/134/salpingitis/

https://the-chicken-chick.com/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard/

Very informative read. I saved it to my chicken file! Sad that she will not recover. Thank you!

 

[Eggcessive]

Many of us have chickens with salpingitis, and don’t realize it until after we lose one. I have only see one lash egg in 8 years of having a lot of chickens, and that was inside the belly. She may surpirse you and live for awhile. The reason I started to do necropsies after a hen died was to try to figure out what killed them. Some of mine has had ascites, or crop problems related to pressure of internal laying, oviduct cancer, fatty liver disease, and salpingitis. When she passes, I would try to do a necropsy and see if she has lash egg material inside.