The Coop-D-etat
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Hello friends,
Yesterday I noticed Lilla, my lavender orpington was kinda sluggish and not perky as she normally is. I left her over night and this morning I noticed the same so I picked her up and examined her and found that she had a prolapse with a soft shelled egg. Fast-forward a bit I soaked her in a heavy Epsom salt soak and used a lubricant and managed to work it out.
She is now in a dog crate down in my room where it's quiet. I have water in there with Nutri-drench in the water and some feed with some crushed tums in them. As soon as I put her in she seems to have perked up and was exploring trying to find a way to get out of the crate. That being said...I'm not really sure why it happened other than premature laying?? She's 5 months old almost 6. I feed an 18% all flock with crushed oyster shell scattered about the whole run. Maybe she's not eating the crushed oyster shell???
My question is I have a rooster. will laying feed really cause that much damage to his kidneys??? Cause if she's not eating the OS I want to get them on layer feed then WITH OS. I got all flock because I want to keep my roo in good health for breeding purposes. Or is it maybe that it's cause she just started laying like two weeks ago?? I'm also nervous this will be a reoccurring issue, maybe it will maybe it won't.
It just sucks cause she is so sweet and one of my favorite birds I have outta my 10.
Any sort of help/recommendations would be 100% extremely appreciated
Thank you doe your time,
Ry.
Yesterday I noticed Lilla, my lavender orpington was kinda sluggish and not perky as she normally is. I left her over night and this morning I noticed the same so I picked her up and examined her and found that she had a prolapse with a soft shelled egg. Fast-forward a bit I soaked her in a heavy Epsom salt soak and used a lubricant and managed to work it out.
She is now in a dog crate down in my room where it's quiet. I have water in there with Nutri-drench in the water and some feed with some crushed tums in them. As soon as I put her in she seems to have perked up and was exploring trying to find a way to get out of the crate. That being said...I'm not really sure why it happened other than premature laying?? She's 5 months old almost 6. I feed an 18% all flock with crushed oyster shell scattered about the whole run. Maybe she's not eating the crushed oyster shell???
My question is I have a rooster. will laying feed really cause that much damage to his kidneys??? Cause if she's not eating the OS I want to get them on layer feed then WITH OS. I got all flock because I want to keep my roo in good health for breeding purposes. Or is it maybe that it's cause she just started laying like two weeks ago?? I'm also nervous this will be a reoccurring issue, maybe it will maybe it won't.
It just sucks cause she is so sweet and one of my favorite birds I have outta my 10.
Any sort of help/recommendations would be 100% extremely appreciated
Thank you doe your time,
Ry.