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Possible Coccidiosis Case Please Help (EMERGENCY)

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She is walking around and behaving broodylike almost. She sits in a nest for about an hour then gets out then walks around for half an hour and spends her day like that.
I forgot to give her calcium citrate yesterday. Do I double up on the pills today or not?
 
SmiYa0126 said:
You can give it to her twice a day.

@Wyorp Rock not much improvement here, can you chime in?
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Yeah, she isn't doing that anymore. Still not laying eggs. I don't know what's wrong. She's doing stuff normal but still not laying eggs. Since I have a rooster all her eggs will be fertilized so for a moment I worried that perhaps she had an egg stuck and the egg would hatch inside her. Then I thought, hey, there's no air inside her so if it external pips it will die. But then she would have a decaying chick inside her. Hmmm...
 
An egg won't hatch inside her. If she's really egg bound (stuck egg) then that would be fatal for her in a short period of time. If she's pooping, then she's not egg bound. If she was sick with something then she may not lay again for a while. Their bodies can only do so much at one time. Eggs take a lot of energy, so when energy is going to something else, laying can stop, when things are normal again the reproductive tract will start back up. If she behaving normally, then just give her some time and keep an eye on her. If she's acting sick, or like she's trying to lay, then something else may be going on. If it looks like she's having trouble laying an egg, the calcium can help.
 
coach723 said:
An egg won't hatch inside her. If she's really egg bound (stuck egg) then that would be fatal for her in a short period of time. If she's pooping, then she's not egg bound. If she was sick with something then she may not lay again for a while. Their bodies can only do so much at one time. Eggs take a lot of energy, so when energy is going to something else, laying can stop, when things are normal again the reproductive tract will start back up. If she behaving normally, then just give her some time and keep an eye on her. If she's acting sick, or like she's trying to lay, then something else may be going on. If it looks like she's having trouble laying an egg, the calcium can help.
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She is just acting normal but not laying eggs which I think that that is not very normal.
 
coach723 said:
Her body may just need a little more time to be ready to resume laying. If she's acting normally, I wouldn't worry, she'll lay when her body is ready.
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But I noticed something weird, she is seperating herself from everyone else. I had noticed this in another chicken, Amaryllis, and Amaryllis died shortly after displaying these symptoms.
 
AARGH now I know why! She has been eating the black insulation in the chicken coop!
It doesn't agree with her, it needs to just pass her system.
 

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