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There are other signs to tell if a hen is going broody. 1. Look on her breast. Are there bald strips along her keel bone? 2. Is she behaving fussily? Is she emitting a rapid low volume clucking while out in the run? Do the other flock members seem irritated with her behavior? 3. When she is...

Look on the back of the bottle. In very, very small print is the amount of milligrams in a pill. In the US vitamin labeling is extremely misleading. I think you may find that it's 200mg in one pill. We discuss it in my recent thread here...

Yes, give both halves next time. She's obviously feeling something hitting her shell gland. She's probably having an issue with cycle regulation. I suggest continuing the daily calcium supplement daily for the next seven days. How many milligrams is the calcium tablet? For her size, I'd limit...

If she's still hanging out in a nest, she may have another egg coming on the heels of the first one. Often, two eggs released during a single cycle is what's behind an egg binding incident. Get to the store as soon as you can and get the calcium tablets and then give her one.

Human vitamins. You want a concentrated form of calcium for therapeutic purposes. Citrate absorbs quicker than carbonate, so I use the calcium citrate in emergency situations where I want a speedy result. Chickens are physiologically designed to swallow considerably large things as they have no...

Hens use the nests to hide in and to rest in, along with actual egg laying. Normally, an egg bound hen will not be able to produce normal poop. However, a watery, poopy discharge, often quite smelly, is present. If you ever suspect a hen is egg bound , immediately give them a calcium...