Peahen not acting well...inside of mouth not pink

[birdeo]

Had a soft shell today, not sure if she laid it or the other hen in with her did.
This hen in question has wings down and depressed looking like she is going to lay .
On a hunch I just dosed her with some calcium in case she laid the soft shell and or/is egg bound , could not feel an egg bulge when I felt on either side of her vent though. When I went to dose her I noticed the inside of her mouth is not nice and pink, shouldn't it be ?
It is kind of gray as is her tongue.
Weight is ok, can feel her breast bone a bit but not too terribly bad.
Saw no cheesy patches in her mouth ( thinking maybe candidiasis ) could be going on .Any ideas greatly appreciated.

 

[pedda munnangi]

Crush some oyster shells in to powder mix with 1/2 a slice of white bread. add 1/2 a spoonful of peanut butter and 2 spoons or enough water mix and make small balls and put them into her mouth from side all the way in . The calcium gland gets fully functional immediately. She is suffering from acute calcium deficiency. Peafowl eggs are very big - need lot of calcium. The regular chicken or gamebird layer feed does not have sufficient calcium for peahens Make sure you mix lot of oyster shell powder in to the feed. during egg laying season to avoid this..

 

[birdeo]

Thank you pedda , is that why her mouth would be that color inside?
Have had oyster shell down in the pens all season long in addition to a good laying crumble in their feed.
I dosed her with 1200 mg. of human calcium already, just a while ago in the throat...mixed with water.

 

[casportpony]

Giving her the human calcium is what I would have done. As for her mouth, a few of mine aren't pink, they're sort of dark gray.

-Kathy

 

[pedda munnangi]

When I gave human calcium 2 x 600 mg capsule with vitamin D added (for better absorption) orally , did not help much to cure calcium deficiency in my peahen. On the third day I gave powdered oyster shell mixed with bread and peanut butter orally, cured almost immediately. I felt that human calcium is very refined and did not get into peahen system effectively. She needed very crude animal calcium. In the wild peafowl eat bugs , insects etc.. that have hard shells. I can only speak about my experience

 

[casportpony]

 When I gave human calcium 2  x 600 mg capsule with vitamin D added (for better absorption) orally , did not help much to cure calcium deficiency in my peahen. On the third day I gave powdered oyster shell mixed with bread and peanut butter orally, cured almost immediately. I felt that human calcium is very refined and did not get into peahen system effectively. She needed very crude animal calcium. In the wild peafowl eat bugs , insects etc.. that have hard shells. I can only speak about my experience

My Walmart calcium is made from oyster shell.

-Kathy

 

[pedda munnangi]

As long as its performance is exemplory, I buy it and use it.Inexpensive too.Good to know, excellent info. thanks Kathy.

 

[casportpony]

I've been doing some "experiments" with it, lol.... I've used it on turkeys, chickens and peahens and most will lay their egg in less than one hour after getting it, and after a few days of getting it, those that were laying soft-shelled eggs are cured, so to speak.

-Kathy

 

[connerhills]

I might suggest that you give vitamins with a lot of Vitamin D-3.. The birds need calcium and they can not process it as they don't have enough D-3 in their system .. this is when you have a soft shell egg and cant get them to quit doing this no matter how much calcium you give .

 

[connerhills]

I might suggest that you give vitamins with a lot of Vitamin D-3.. The birds need calcium and they can not process it as they don't have enough D-3 in their system .. this is when you have a soft shell egg and cant get them to quit doing this no matter how much calcium you give .