Possibly eggbound hen? Help!

[Ebony Rose]

You can serve sardines packed in sunflower or olive oil solo, as a treat or pour it oil and all over her standard feed to tempt her to eat a balanced diet with the protein & caloric boost. Sunflower seeds will also help her to pack on some weight (mine prefer them without the shell). Shredded cheese, or preparing her scrambled eggs with some cheese sprinkled on top afterward will also provide some added calories and if you don't COOK the cheese, she can get some probiotics out of the deal too; The good bacteria survive the aging process in some cheeses, including Gouda, mozzarella, cheddar and cottage cheese. Just some ideas on how to fatten her up.

 

[ChristinaMay]

You can serve sardines packed in sunflower or olive oil solo, as a treat or pour it oil and all over her standard feed to tempt her to eat a balanced diet with the protein & caloric boost. Sunflower seeds will also help her to pack on some weight (mine prefer them without the shell). Shredded cheese, or preparing her scrambled eggs with some cheese sprinkled on top afterward will also provide some added calories and if you don't COOK the cheese, she can get some probiotics out of the deal too; The good bacteria survive the aging process in some cheeses, including Gouda, mozzarella, cheddar and cottage cheese. Just some ideas on how to fatten her up.

thank you!!

 

[ChristinaMay]

Another update on my girl - she is done with her Corid treatment and has a couple days of amox left. I’m giving her nutri drench daily, 1ml directly in her mouth. She seems to be getting more energy and is walking around and making more noise also. Her tail seems to slowly be raising too! Her poop has remained dark green but there’s no more egg-looking matter anymore, and it’s getting more solid! Her comb is still completely folded, but it’s lost it’s purple color and is now more red. She’s still a picky eater but I’ve started mixing scratch with raisins and nuts into her layer feed and she’s doing well on that - I’m not sure why she refuses human food like tuna and cottage cheese! She loves tomatoes though. I have a hen in her own coop next to my back porch that lost both of her feet to frost bite last year (our coop flipped on it’s roof in a horrible storm and she got out through the vent by the roof And the wind blew her into my horse pasture where she got caught in the fence, it was horrible but she’s doing amazing on her pegs!). I think I’m going to try to move this girl in with her in a couple weeks once she’s put some more weight on - prayers they get along! Hopefully this girl is on the mend.. still unsure if it was coccidia, EYP, both or something else like cancer. I’m just so happy she’s still with us!

 

[Eggcessive]

Glad that she is doing so much better. I would keep an eye on her crop to make sure that it is emptying overnight. Also I would cut back on scratch and raisins, and give more high protein balanced chicken feed.

In this winter weather we have started seeing frostbite again this year. Do you use anything on your hen’s stumps who had frostbite, to pad them, or does she get around well without any? We always enjoy pictures to show others going through frostbite, if you care to share any of her. That is a sad story about her coop overturning and her getting out in the freezing weather last year.

 

[ChristinaMay]

I’m trying to give her as much protein as possible, but she’s being so picky about what she will eat. She’s very interested in nuts right now.

Yes! I’ve attached pictures in order from start to finish with her losing her feet. It was a 5 month process. I let them die off completely on their own, then cut them off once they were being held on solely by dead bone. No bleeding and she never seemed to be in pain once I took them off, just uncomfortable. I didn’t give her any pain medicine and kept them wrapped with gauze and Coban wrap once they hardened and still to this day. I used lots of antiseptic spray and she never developed an infection. Because her feet died midway up the leg bone, I was never able to unwrap them as it’s just bone then skin. I tried get them to callus by unwrapping them for a day after a few months of having no feet and she started to develop an abscess within a couple hours, so I put her on amox and wrapped them back up and haven’t tried since (that was in August, coop flipped first week of February, feet came off in May, healed over by June). I change her “feet” every other week. At first she had to use her wings to balance, now she’s super quick and gets around amazingly well! Also, she only stopped laying for a month and then started right back to every other day laying and never stopped throughout the whole process. She’s amazing!!

 

[aart]

I’ve attached pictures in order from start to finish with her losing her feet.

Wow, terrible thing... but great documentation.
Amazing that she can get around and is healthy enough to lay.
Any videos of her walking in her 'stumps'?
Did the frostbite happen when the coop blew over?

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[Eggcessive]

Thank you so much for posting your pictures and documenting her progress, and what you did for her. I try to help others who suspect frosbite here, and we see so many threads Jan through March about this. We saw a couple already in December. I think your posting should be in a new thread about frostbite where we can easily find it to show others.

 

[ChristinaMay]

Thank you so much for posting your pictures and documenting her progress, and what you did for her. I try to help others who suspect frosbite here, and we see so many threads Jan through March about this. We saw a couple already in December. I think your posting should be in a new thread about frostbite where we can easily find it to show others.

It was my first time dealing with frost bite to this degree, the only think I would have changed was how quickly I warmed her up, I should have put her in a cooler environment versus a hot bathroom. Is there a way to do that easily, and transfer the pictures?

 

[Eggcessive]

The easiest way would be to post a new thread here with a title such as “Frostbite in both feet-the story of my hen”
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures.10/create-thread
And then copy and paste post 55, or copy and paste the thread listing post 55. Or you could do it the longer way by giving a brief description of what happened and your treatment and repost your pictures.

 

[ChristinaMay]

Wow, terrible thing... but great documentation.
Amazing that she can get around and is healthy enough to lay.
Any videos of her walking in her 'stumps'?
Did the frostbite happen when the coop blew over?

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I was just as amazed at how well she recovered, and she is a daily egg layer now. I think her age helped a lot, she was only 8 months old when this happened. I added my location to my profile, I’m in western New York. Yes, she was the only hen that escaped through the vent. We had 75mph winds during this storm and I found her at 5am buried in snow in my back horse pasture (saw a tiny glimpse of orange with my spot light). A complete blessing she got blown into the pasture where she was trapped, instead of completely blowing away. I don’t have any good videos of her walking but I’ll try to get one soon. She’s molting right now thanks to crazy warm temps we have had the last few weeks so I’ve been keeping her cooped up now that she’s bald and it’s in the 20s again! So excited for her to get feathers on her belly and butt again though. I had to cut them all away when she wasn’t standing to keep her bum clean.