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In the Brooder
- Jan 6, 2025
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Long storyline, I apologize.
About a month ago one of my hens (black sex link) started closing her eye and it began getting cloudy, no longer laying eggs, and was more lethargic than normal. I was treating the flock with tylosin (just in case) and treating her with that plus terramycin.
The eye has never gotten better, but today she has her energy back again! Her eye is consistently open, albeit clouded. She’s talking, she’s sprightly again! She even did the rooster crouch for me when I went to give them their morning salad. Behaviors I haven’t seen in a month from her.
One of my other hens (lavender orp) has also started doing the crouch. She’s the only one that has not started laying yet (all hens are 6ish months old; 2 black sex links, 2 lavender orpington)
I go to clean the coop and I see in the doorway a soft shelled egg with runny yolk near is, and something tubular? I put it in a plastic bag (using gloves!) and the tubular thing feels squishy, like a gummy candy.
Is this from my one-eyed hen, and that’s why she’s back to her normal self? My non-laying hen? What is it?
(soft shell egg is in the right corner of the bag, tubular object to the left of egg)
They were separate pieces when I put them in the bag, but I placed them in the bag as I found them in the coop.
About a month ago one of my hens (black sex link) started closing her eye and it began getting cloudy, no longer laying eggs, and was more lethargic than normal. I was treating the flock with tylosin (just in case) and treating her with that plus terramycin.
The eye has never gotten better, but today she has her energy back again! Her eye is consistently open, albeit clouded. She’s talking, she’s sprightly again! She even did the rooster crouch for me when I went to give them their morning salad. Behaviors I haven’t seen in a month from her.
One of my other hens (lavender orp) has also started doing the crouch. She’s the only one that has not started laying yet (all hens are 6ish months old; 2 black sex links, 2 lavender orpington)
I go to clean the coop and I see in the doorway a soft shelled egg with runny yolk near is, and something tubular? I put it in a plastic bag (using gloves!) and the tubular thing feels squishy, like a gummy candy.
Is this from my one-eyed hen, and that’s why she’s back to her normal self? My non-laying hen? What is it?
(soft shell egg is in the right corner of the bag, tubular object to the left of egg)
They were separate pieces when I put them in the bag, but I placed them in the bag as I found them in the coop.
