Shell Less Eggs Every Day! Please Help!

[JacobMaxwell]

It relaxes them, much like warm baths helps a laboring woman. I have a Lakenvelder, she's tiny, and her 1st year laying she was egg bound several times. She'd lay about 20 minutes after I'd get her out of the bath.
The Epsom draws out, I've used Epsom salt crop flushes, and it forces out whatever is in their gut/crop. Especially if the bird gets into toxins.
As a bath, it draws down the egg, I think. Also, I was concerned that my hen had a little infection from yolks going into the abdomen, so it would help to draw out the infection as well. In my own family I've used Epsom salt poultices and soaks for sore muscles, bug bites, and some cysts I get on my wrist from time to time.

That certainly sounds helpful!

 

[JanetS]

Read this and see if this might help your chicken.

http://hencam.com/faq/the-spa-treatment/

and this

http://hencam.com/henblog/page/5/