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I just wanted to let you folks know that Ethel seems to be back to normal. Today she was hanging out with the rest of the flock, excited to eat, etc. I'm still keeping an eye on her, but she seems to be fine.

@Eggcessive I started with egg shells, but I ran out, which is why I got the oyster shell. I've been collecting the egg shells and I'm at a point where I have enough to crush them and feed them to the chickens. Thanks for the advice. I'll take a look at those links.

I ferment the feed, so they generally eat everything, but I have noticed on occasion that they will leave some of the oyster shell behind. I've got a small bowl from when our dogs were tiny puppies, I'll stick some oyster shell in that for them. Thanks for the tip on administering calcium, I...

@micstrachan I feed them Scratch and Peck organic layer, with some oyster egg shells mixed in for extra calcium. She started laying toward the end of December, and I've not seen any issues with any of my flock before today. I'm keeping an eye on her, I'll see how things work out tomorrow...

Thankfully she doesn't seem to be in any pain. When I cleaned her vent, she wasn't fussed at all. Thanks @casportpony I'll give that a try.

Hi, One of my hens (Ethel, a 7.5 month old Black Australorp) was behaving slightly off today when I let the chickens out of their run, and when I picked her up to have a look at her she seemed to have this green tube coming out of her vent. It's soft, and I tried cleaning her vent, but the...