Not sure if chicken is egg bound?! Help please!’

[brio3]

I noticed today she was in waddling so I grabbed her as soon as I could. It was way more inflamed before I got it a little wet with warm water. Does this look egg bound or could it be a bad case of pasty butt?? I’m so scared I don’t want to lose her.

 

[StraightOuttaTheCoop]

I dealt with this earlier this spring. Isolated the bird. Gave her warm epsom salt baths 2x day. Gave her plenty of access to grit and oyster shell, her own food and water, sick bird formula and it cleared up after about 5 days. I was so relieved that it worked.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She's prolapsing, this can be a crisis.

Can you feel an egg?

Get some Extra Calcium into her. Tums is o.k. in a pinch, but if you have Calcium Citrate with D3 that would be better.

The exposed tissue needs to be kept moist with ointment, oil or honey.

 

[nuthatched]

I dealt with this earlier this spring. Isolated the bird. Gave her warm epsom salt baths 2x day. Gave her plenty of access to grit and oyster shell, her own food and water, sick bird formula and it cleared up after about 5 days. I was so relieved that it worked.

Thats not going to help at all in this instance, if the bird is egg bound and starting to prolapse, we have roughly 48 hours before she dies.

 

[brio3]

I dealt with this earlier this spring. Isolated the bird. Gave her warm epsom salt baths 2x day. Gave her plenty of access to grit and oyster shell, her own food and water, sick bird formula and it cleared up after about 5 days. I was so relieved that it worked.

Thank you so much for your reply, I’m glad your chicken is ok I gave her a 20 minute warm bath and about 30 minutes later she had a big poop and all the swelling went away and she was so happy started eating and drinking water. She was so happy the whole time she was drying. I wonder what caused it to happen? I’m going to give her another bath tomorrow just to keep her bottom clean, I really hope she’s going to be ok.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Sounds like she's constipated.
See that she's drinking well and eating her normal feed. If the problem continues, then offer wet feed and get 1tsp coconut oil into her twice a day for a few days.

She may still have some other problems going on, time will tell. It would be a very good idea to have Extra Calcium on hand.

 

[brio3]

Sounds like she's constipated.
See that she's drinking well and eating her normal feed. If the problem continues, then offer wet feed and get 1tsp coconut oil into her twice a day for a few days.

She may still have some other problems going on, time will tell. It would be a very good idea to have Extra Calcium on hand.

Thank you! I added calcium to her feed already just as a precaution! What could be other problems that are going on? what do I need to look out for?

Thanks

 

[brio3]

She's prolapsing, this can be a crisis.

Can you feel an egg?

Get some Extra Calcium into her. Tums is o.k. in a pinch, but if you have Calcium Citrate with D3 that would be better.

The exposed tissue needs to be kept moist with ointment, oil or honey.

After she pooped it went away. Is she not ok if the swelling went away? She’s eating, drinking, and moving around just fine. I gave her extra calcium just in case.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It's good that the swelling went away when she pooped.

See that she's drinking well and eating her normal feed. If the problem continues, then offer wet feed and get 1tsp coconut oil into her twice a day for a few days.

She may still have some other problems going on, time will tell. It would be a very good idea to have Extra Calcium on hand.