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I would offer some foods that most chickens cannot resist, but just a little to temp her to get started eating. Those include tuna, scrambled egg, ground meat or canned cat food. Mushy wet chicken feed is also good, and chicken feed should be most of her diet. Check her crop early each morning...

The green and white dropping look like she is still not eating enough, but the urates are a healthy white. Did that particular dropping have yellow material in it, or maybe it didn’t ?

Do you have any pictures of the dropping? It sounds like she is feeling better, and glad to hear that she is eating and drinking. Reproductive disorders can make them feel weak and uncomfortable, so it is good that she seems better. I would try to get her eating more, and things like small...

If she is suffering from a reproductive problem, those can include salpingitis and coelomitis, where there masses of internally laid eggs inside the abdomen, cancer, or ascites (water belly.) That is not contagious, but many good layers can suffer from these problems by 2-3 years old. Is she...

I’m sorry that she is no better. Were you able to get any calcium into her?

The gel pill is fine to give whole or you can cut it open and give with food or egg.

Tums or calcium tablets can be put into the beak, the Tums usually have to be cut in two, but they are easy to swallow.

You can give both, but especially the Tums first.

Do you have any calcium? I would give her 600 mg of human calcium citrate with vitamin D3 orally. If you only have Tums or other calcium give that, but the calcium citrate is fastest absorbed. Find it at Walmart or other pharmacies and generic or Equate brand is find. If she can’t poop, I would...

@SnowHugs Has your hen been laying eggs regularly lately, and have you noticed any soft or thin shelled eggs in the nests or coop? Can you get a picture of her and possibly one of her vent area? Is her lower belly under the vent enlarged or swollen? Green poop indicates that she is not eating...