CKfarm22
Crowing
I have an 11 month old mutt barred rock hen. Due to the winter she hasn’t been laying at all. We got two shift shell eggs in i want to say the beginning of december and then a shelled egg a couple weeks ago but other then that she hasn’t been laying. Today she was fine in the morning/early afternoon and then around 3:00 she became very lethargic. She’s usually the first to fly to me when i grab the treat bag but she just wanted to stay under the rose bush and not move. She kept nodding off everyone couple minutes. Her poop is very green and runny and smells horrible. And her back end is pulsing. I tried feeling her abdomen for an egg but i’m not really sure what i’m looking for, her abdomen feels squishy. We put all of the hens back into the run and she laid in the far corner not moving for a couple hours. I have a light that turns off at 8:30 pm and even after the light went off she didn’t get up to go into the coop. After researching and looking on here i think she’s egg bound. I soaked her in a warm bath with epsom salt and gave her calcium citrate through syringe. Is it possible that she’s eggs bound? I could do the finger test but i don’t want to pop the egg incase it is a soft shelled egg.