The most important thing you need to do for your hen is to give her a calcium supplement. I recommend calcium citrate 400mg with D3. Give it immediately and each day until this situation resolves and she's laying regular eggs again.
What I believe is happening is she has a soft-shell egg hung up. You aren't feeling it because it's farther back from the vent and it has no hard shell.
I've had more experience than I wish with hens in the predicament yours is. The egg won't come down because it's much harder to pass when it's soft. The calcium helps with contractions and there's a chance, if the egg hasn't exited the shell gland yet, it can form a shell and make it easier to expel.
Often, there are two back-to-back eggs involved. I have a hen right now that is releasing two yolks every other day, and her shell gland has calcium only for one, making the other a soft shell egg that sometimes gets hung up inside, making her feel pretty awful until she finally passes it.
The daily calcium supplement (in addition to oyster shell) has helped her with the second egg not being hung up, but she still can't make enough calcium for two hard-shell eggs. Every other day, I find one normal egg and one broken thin-shell egg. One day last week, she was acting sick like your girl, and she finally expelled a thin-shell egg shaped like a conch shell.
For now, forget the warm soaks and just concentrate on the calcium unless you detect an egg close to the vent that refuses to come out.
What I believe is happening is she has a soft-shell egg hung up. You aren't feeling it because it's farther back from the vent and it has no hard shell.
I've had more experience than I wish with hens in the predicament yours is. The egg won't come down because it's much harder to pass when it's soft. The calcium helps with contractions and there's a chance, if the egg hasn't exited the shell gland yet, it can form a shell and make it easier to expel.
Often, there are two back-to-back eggs involved. I have a hen right now that is releasing two yolks every other day, and her shell gland has calcium only for one, making the other a soft shell egg that sometimes gets hung up inside, making her feel pretty awful until she finally passes it.
The daily calcium supplement (in addition to oyster shell) has helped her with the second egg not being hung up, but she still can't make enough calcium for two hard-shell eggs. Every other day, I find one normal egg and one broken thin-shell egg. One day last week, she was acting sick like your girl, and she finally expelled a thin-shell egg shaped like a conch shell.
For now, forget the warm soaks and just concentrate on the calcium unless you detect an egg close to the vent that refuses to come out.
