Help! Needing my hen to miscarriage, she will die otherwise.

[Debbie292d]

Will the calcium pills with magnesium be ok for her? That’s all I have right now.

I have some chicken electrolytes I want to put in her water to help her stay strong since she isn’t eating.

Should I add some sugar to her water for extra calories since she isn’t eating? I’ve tried this before for other hens, but am not sure if it’s a good idea or not and would apreciate your input.

Thanks!

Phosphorus and D3 help calcium absorption. So if your calcium doesn't have the D3, then I would put Poultry Cell or Nutri-Drench vitamins in her water. They both contain D3, plus the vitamins would probably help her strength more than electrolytes would. Electrolytes wouldn't hurt though, just she would probably benefit more from the vitamins.

Sugar water gives no nutrients, but might perk her up temporarily.

I would try offer her scrambled eggs, canned tuna in water, or make a mash with her feed mixed in water. You could mix a raw egg yolk in the feed or her scrambled eggs to make it more nutritious. Those things most chickens can't resist. If she won't eat anything at all, you may have to syringe feed her. Hopefully, one of these ideas entices her to eat!

 

[HPancho]

Could the hen be going broody? Is she making new sounds? Big poops?

 

[Snowy Canadian]

Phosphorus and D3 help calcium absorption. So if your calcium doesn't have the D3, then I would put Poultry Cell or Nutri-Drench vitamins in her water. They both contain D3, plus the vitamins would probably help her strength more than electrolytes would. Electrolytes wouldn't hurt though, just she would probably benefit more from the vitamins.

Sugar water gives no nutrients, but might perk her up temporarily.

I would try offer her scrambled eggs, canned tuna in water, or make a mash with her feed mixed in water. You could mix a raw egg yolk in the feed or her scrambled eggs to make it more nutritious. Those things most chickens can't resist. If she won't eat anything at all, you may have to syringe feed her. Hopefully, one of these ideas entices her to eat!

Ok, thanks for the advice!

I’ll give her half a calcium pill (ground up) tonight and let her drink some sugar-electrolyte water, my electrolytes have a few vitamins like A and B12 in it so hopefully that helps. Tomorrow I’ll give her a full pill and try feeding her some boiled eggs too. I’ll keep this up for a few days and hope she can get over this.

 

[Snowy Canadian]

Could the hen be going broody? Is she making new sounds? Big poops?

not this time sadly, I’ve broken many broods so I wish it was that easy.

 

[Snowy Canadian]

Thanks everyone for all the advice! It’s good to hear what everyone has to say.
This has stressed me out quite a bit, and now I at least have a plan and some hope.

 

[Debbie292d]

Ok, thanks for the advice!

I’ll give her half a calcium pill (ground up) tonight and let her drink some sugar-electrolyte water, my electrolytes have a few vitamins like A and B12 in it so hopefully that helps. Tomorrow I’ll give her a full pill and try feeding her some boiled eggs too. I’ll keep this up for a few days and hope she can get over this.

Sounds good, but if you can get her to eat some of the eggs, that'd be great as they have D3 in them too! I'm just worried you'd give her the calcium and she'd only benefit from a small portion of it without the D.