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    Lash egg, full crop, diarrhea help!!

    I actually moved this conversation to another thread! Will provide an update soon https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-x-ray-hen-has-huge-egg-inside-of-her….1639829/
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    Virginia

    Yes neutering is an option but it’s considered a high risk surgery. You can also spay hens, another risky procedure but it will ensure no reproductive disease happens and no eggs will ever be layed again. This issue is that the ovaries and testies lay behind the chickens organs near their...
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    Chicken X-ray. Hen has huge egg inside of her…

    Not sure… but I would not bet on anything more than a week since she had laid a week ago (shellless egg with some lash covering it) I’ll start supplementing her calcium right away I only have three chickens left in my flock and all I’m very attached to. I would do anything to give her a healthy...
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    Chicken X-ray. Hen has huge egg inside of her…

    Yes my vet is an avian vet. I did see the grit in the xray it was small and completely white. He was able to point that out on the xray. Unfortunately I don’t have it since it was on a tablet but next time I’ll ask for it. Really it is highly speculated to be an egg. He said it “maybe is an...
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    Chicken X-ray. Hen has huge egg inside of her…

    3 year old golden comet went to the vet today. If you’ve seen any of my previous posts you know she’s laid a lash egg and has been a little lethargic. Well one vet visit and an X-ray later… 7cm egg is inside of her. On the x ray it looks huge. Vet is obviously very concerned. She is on...
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    Virginia

    Does anyone know any vets in Virginia that will do the hormone injection for chickens? Suprelorin?
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    Lash egg, full crop, diarrhea help!!

    Update for anyone who is having similar issues Todays droppings was the first normal droppings I’ve seen from her since her illness. Getting her to eat can be hard but I think (?) today she may have eaten some regular feed however I wasn’t home so I’m not 100%. I mixed with some scratch and...
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    Lash egg, full crop, diarrhea help!!

    Any advice for best food to give her right now would be really great. I want to give her something high in calories and nutrient dense since she’s not eating any regular feed at all. She refuses and the only way I can get her to eat it is if I wet it and mix it with meal worms. And she’ll pick...
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    Lash egg, full crop, diarrhea help!!

    None at all thank god. I had a hen die from internal laying and ever since then I’d been paranoid. But if she doesn’t lay eggs again she will probably end up on the same path… let’s just hope I can prevent that for as long as possible. I have been using probiotics as well, the ones you dilute...
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    Lash egg, full crop, diarrhea help!!

    I got a picture of her droppings. Any ideas?
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    Lash egg, full crop, diarrhea help!!

    Her crop was just squishy with some leftover feed inside. It had emptied today but she didn’t really want to eat anything but treats which from my experience is never a good sign if they aren’t eating their regular feed… she’s in baytril again and I gave my flock some probiotic water She...
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    Lash egg, full crop, diarrhea help!!

    My 3 year old golden comet hen has laid a lash egg before but I gave her baytril 0.25 ml twice a day and she started laying again normally But last week it happened again. She laid a lash, then laid a shellless egg with infection on it, then laid an egg that broke but I’m not sure inside of...
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    First time respiratory infection. What now?

    My 3 year old production red during her calcium medication I noticed she was slightly gasping from her mouth and the corner of both her eyes had clear bubbles coming from it. This is the first I’d seen this and I handle her frequently so I’d assume this is first day symptoms I’ve read of...
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    Chickens and feeder mice?

    I work at a bird rehab center and we end up with a lot of mouse scraps (stuff we drop on accident) It sucks seeing a lot of perfectly good reptile grade feeder mice that were just dropped on the floor wasted. Would it be a bad idea to give one to my chickens as a treat? I am mostly worried...
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    Crop full of chicken scratch, not emptying?

    I got mine from Walmart the green bottle called spring valley I’d open the pod up and dump all the medicine out and I’d mix it into my chickens food after he ate. Only once a day for me seemed to work. I also gave him some grit to help with digestion as well and that seemed to clear out his...
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