Same hen, Red Star about 5 years old. We wormed her about 3 weeks ago and she had an intestinal grass blockage about 7 inches long that I pulled out of her about 3 weeks ago as well. Saw her poops were weird yesterday night, mostly urates and little tubes of poop. This morning her crop hadn’t emptied and had her isolated and only access to probiotic water she wasn’t drinking. She eagerly escaped and went to try and lay an egg to no avail. When I went to check her vent right below it on the feathers there was a lash egg.
Pulled it off her butt and it was rubbery and not fresh. I believe she might have laid it a day or two ago. She gave up on laying and she was still pretty active. Brought her inside and she was a little sleepy until all of a sudden she wandered off and pooped and followed that poop with this monstrosity.
It’s hard to tell from the images but it starts as a tubular soft shell egg and then the tube becomes this soft white membrane also covered in this white goop.
I had a Leghorn with lash egg about a month ago and treated her with amoxicillin and worked and am thinking about doing the same for this chicken but want confirmation that my diagnosis is correct and this is the best way to proceed. Also hesitant because has acute she has crop emptying issues (soft and squishy with some hard pieces in the crop however her breath is not sour) and worried the antibiotics are going to make that worse. Is there an order in which I should treat these?
Help please, thanks for reading!
Pulled it off her butt and it was rubbery and not fresh. I believe she might have laid it a day or two ago. She gave up on laying and she was still pretty active. Brought her inside and she was a little sleepy until all of a sudden she wandered off and pooped and followed that poop with this monstrosity.
It’s hard to tell from the images but it starts as a tubular soft shell egg and then the tube becomes this soft white membrane also covered in this white goop.
I had a Leghorn with lash egg about a month ago and treated her with amoxicillin and worked and am thinking about doing the same for this chicken but want confirmation that my diagnosis is correct and this is the best way to proceed. Also hesitant because has acute she has crop emptying issues (soft and squishy with some hard pieces in the crop however her breath is not sour) and worried the antibiotics are going to make that worse. Is there an order in which I should treat these?
Help please, thanks for reading!
