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  1. Chickenwithnobrim

    Egg bound or ascites?

    Update, she still has the egg (I can feel it so easy and her bum looks heavy) but she's doing completely fine now?? Full appetite and thirst, walking around scratching and pecking like normal.. so weird. Best case scenario she passes that egg with ease over the next week and lives to see at...
  2. Chickenwithnobrim

    Egg bound or ascites?

    So quick update, I put her in the yard yesterday to join her with her flockmate and she went immediately to the nest box to try to lay. She was unsuccessful but is still much more perky and able to pass bowels around the egg, which I can still feel in her abdomen and can see from a distance her...
  3. Chickenwithnobrim

    Egg bound or ascites?

    Egg hasn't passed but she's drinking on her own and able to pass a very worm/string like poop every 3 or so hours. Would getting her up and moving around a bit help or should I just let her rest? Thanks
  4. Chickenwithnobrim

    Egg bound or ascites?

    Okay thank you for letting me know. For now she's resting in the kennel again with a heating pad on low underneath. I'll lay off the soaking for tonight. I couldn't feel an egg as when I got my finger in I felt her squeeze tightly and shot another tiny amount of poop/fluid out. Afterwards I...
  5. Chickenwithnobrim

    Egg bound or ascites?

    I have her in her 2nd warm bath rn and it seems to relax her. It's definitely a stuck egg, as it's moved closer to her cloaca so I think theres some hope yet. Right before putting her in the wash tub I massaged her abdomen SUPER gently to locate egg and she projectile pooped some white with a...
  6. Chickenwithnobrim

    Egg bound or ascites?

    Hi all, I have an older hen who was already an older Unknown age when I found her dumped by somebody and she's been with me for 3 years. Last night she ate like normal and had a big poo before bed but this morning she was lethargic and wouldn't come out of the coop. I managed to get her to drink...
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