!!!URGENT!!! CHICKEN IN DANGER!!!

[calman5565]

Hi everybody,

Let me start by saying that one of my RIR White Leghorn mixes has acted strangely for the last two days. By strange I mean she is at the top of the pecking order and has always regularly reinforced that but now she has been doing a lot of sitting and acting lethargic. I also have a suspicion that she has stopped laying and when I took a closer look tonight I saw and felt that her behind is extremely large. In the pics attached you will se her with another hen who has always been almost identical to her in size shape posture and energy. The hen I am concerned about is the darker one. Does this mean that she possibly has an egg that is backed up? Is she sick? I desperately need thoughts or ideas, please help!

 

[PunkinPeep]

Hi, i'm sorry you're having this trouble.

Have you felt your hen's behind? Is the swelling in the lower abdominal area? Is it soft and squishy, or hard, like an egg? Feel very very gently. If there is an egg there, you don't want to crack it.

 

[calman5565]

After a 25 minute warm bath I took her into the garage and within 2 minutes this came out. It is kind of hard to see but it appears to be an egg white with poop mixed in. What else is there for me to do?

 

[boochaces]

how is she acting after the bath???

 

[calman5565]

After she expelled what was in the picture she is still lethargic and seems tired but she did do some brief preening.

 

[calman5565]

She did not like it when I tried to put some vaseline on her vent.