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Thanks for responding! Her belly feels tight and swollen. It definitely looks enlarged. I'm pretty religious about cleaning their coop, and they free range in our fenced backyard all day. She's still eating, drinking, and pooping normally, but not laying. All my girls are Speckled Sussex. :) I...

She normally lays, but hasn't since I separated her from the flock. (It's normally really hard to tell who is laying, they all use the same box.)

I know it's not a great picture, but it's the best my husband could get after her bath. I've soaked her in Epsom salts twice and given her Meloxicam (left over from our first chicken). She's acting normally now, but I'm very concerned because this is exactly what happened to our first chicken...

We lost a chicken two weeks ago with a red, firm swollen area below her vent. The vet said that she thought it was an egg that had left the reproductive tract and was floating near her organs. Our vet drained the fluid, gave her Meloxicam, and she was great for about a week. Then, she declined...