My hen was egg bound once this summer and her butt was low, which is how I could tell. I held her like a baby on her back and lightly messaged and actually rocked her.....when I sat her back down the egg dropped out. I probably got really lucky this worked. I love your videos, helps me a lot being a first time chicken mama...lol.
Wow thats lucky! And yes to gently rubbing front to back. I’m just terrified of the egg breaking inside her 😬 also be careful of holding them on their back as they start to get “sleepy” but really they’re being asphyxiated 😳 I’ve done it before because I didn’t know and I’m glad my chicken didn’t die so I wanted to warn you ❤️ if they start to close their eyes you gotta turn them back over!
We haven't experienced this yet. With 58 girls, I'm sure it's only a matter of time. We've had to give a couple a bath to clean a messy back end. Thanks for sharing this video.
Hey girl! Get an eye dropper & fill it full of mineral oil & squeeze all of the oil into her vent, it will lubricate everything inside & will not hurt her. I have done that & it worked
Sara I’m currently in a similar situation to where I thought my girl was egg bound & now I’m wondering if she has water belly. What treatment did you ultimately give your hen when she had water belly? Thank you. I really appreciate all of the advice & information you share. R.I.P. sweet Callie. ❤
Hey there, I’m so sorry about that. I didn’t get a chance to drain her because she passed away but I wish I had time to learn how. I did keep her isolated and simplified her diet but I know that wasn’t really sufficient. ✌🏻❤️🐓
Would my hen be egg bound if it feels like the egg is in the front about half way down her chest. Did the soaking,think I was in the right area. Did this by my self,going to check again when i have help. Was eating / drinking, didn t have an egg for 3 days today. She does lay daily. Thank you so much
Nope, that’s actually her crop. It also shouldn’t be hard but if she’s been out eating all day as normal, it would feel full. Be careful squeezing that though as you can make her aspirate (food comes back up like vomit but then goes back into lungs) as this can be fatal. But do a quick Google search for the chicken anatomy and you’ll see what I mean. An egg issue would be down between her legs, or towards her vent.
Yes! She ended up passing weeks later but it was related to a predator attack. 😖 the only thing to be aware of is that an egg bound chicken will often pass that egg, and be ok for a while, but technically it’s a reproductive issue so she will probably end up egg bound again. ✌🏼❤️🐓
@@realsimplemama thanks for responding so quickly, I'm worried about her. Sorry about your hen. I really don't want to lose any of my chickens. It's so sad.
Yes! Get a plastic bin with a locking lid. Cut a hole for her neck and head to come through. Put the warm water and epsom salt in, put her in and out her head through the lid. Lock it. That way she can safely be in the water and you don’t have to hold her.
Oh my gosh I think this is what’s wrong with my chicken Ronda we are going to bring her in tonight and keep her inside in a dog cage after we soak her because it is cold here in Ohio. Please pray that this works.❤️🙏 you’re the best every time I need some thing I come straight to you. God bless you.❤️🙏 what ever happened? Did that help her to pass the egg and was she OK then?❤️🙏
@@realsimplemama thank you for your response. We did the Epson salt bath yesterday and kept her in the house in a puppy crate. We repeated the same thing tonight. We are not sure if she is egg bound. She is not eating a lot or drinking a lot and actually no poop.❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏😭😭
I’m so sorry I know it’s scary and stressful. I’d continue to isolate her, try to feed her something softer like scrambled eggs, and look into massaging her. I know there is a risk of breaking an egg inside her but my concern at this point would be that she’s not pooping at all. When you soak her, make sure the vent gets under the water too and that she’s clean back there. ✌🏻❤️🐓 I’ll help as much as I can. theMama@realsimplemama.com
My hen has been in this condition severs weeks. It feels like there's two eggs in the area under her vent. Trying to come out at the same time. I've soaked her & massaged her. Ive even put petroleum jelly at the opening of her vent, idk what else to do. 😞
I think I have a Egg Bound girl. I soaked her this morning, and separated her, but the problem is she's not eating (even offered a couple of bugs), she is drinking. Very small amount of runny poop. Any suggestions
Oh no I’m sorry. I’d keep doing the soaks, as many times a day for as long as you can. You can also feel her “undercarriage” like I talk about in the video and try to massage her front to back, but you have to be so careful so as to not break the egg. Otherwise I would consider getting her to a vet, as other home treatments can kill her if they don’t work. :( I’m sorry, keep me posted. ✌🏼❤️🐓
@@realsimplemama I just peaked in on her she's is eating (I put a small can of dog food in this morning), and there is a little more runny stool in there. As soon as she is done eating it's bath time. I even brought her in the house put her in one of the quite spare bedrooms and put a small space heater in there (cold and windy today).
I hope she can get that egg out. She’s so cute. I definitely see a big difference between her and my chicken that has water belly/ascites. My chicken couldn’t comfortably lay down like yours is in your videos. The huge abdominal fluid sac was too much on her lungs and she couldn’t breathe well. She would lay up against the panels of the dog pen I was keeping her in to prop herself up or if she laid down she would crane her neck way up above her body (like a giraffes neck) to be able to breathe. It was hard to watch, but she’s doing much better. I suspect you are right about yours being egg-bound. I hope she can pull through. Definitely a good idea to give her own food and water that she won’t have to walk over to so she can stay nourished. If her poop starts coming out green (like a grassy green or bile color) that’s a sign that she’s getting significantly malnourished and muscle wasting. Also, it’s ok for the bath water to be a little warmer, not hot, but warmer water will help relax her muscles and vent more which is the purpose. It’s also ok to do the bath more than once. I’d give her another if she didn’t pass that egg yet.
Thank you so much for your help. It’s been almost two weeks, the fluid has gone down but she’s not walking. Eating and drinking and poop is fine but no eggs. I think she’s older and heart is failing. She has all her own stuff and lots of baths, and lots of goodies like Greek yogurt.
If your chicken is egg bound start feeding vegetable oils to lubricate in the exit route too and Vaseline in the vent. Soak every hour until she lays the egg. Give her electrolytes and calcium ( Tums)
I personally don’t lubricate the vent because I know people who tried to insert fingers and they ended up breaking the egg inside the hen which is fatal. The other suggestions sound promising! ✌🏻❤️🐓
Hi Mama, Ive got a never laid before!! she 26 weeks old, polish bantam, so no cone. Ive bathe her in warm water, (no Epsom salts in the house) and put her in a box in a quite room in the house. Is it usual for a first time lay to be egg bound, and should i be worried about our other hen being on her own in the coop over night? (yes we only have two chucks now, the 3rd turned out to be a cock so had to take him back). Thanks for your advice, i always come to you first ♥
Hey! Hmmm. It’s not “normal” for her to be egg bound already but it’s also not impossible. Is she squatting or trying to sit in nesting boxes at all??? The other girl will be sad and lonely but it’s a temp thing so it’s ok ❤️ Email me and let me know how she’s doing! theMama@realsimplemama.com
how long does it take for a hen to recover after a egg drops? my chicken dropped her egg today after finding out she was egg bound yesterday but she’s still acting weird i’m not sure if that is normal since it is my first year raising one.
@@realsimplemama well it’s currently her bed time and she’s been walking back to normal and eating but she’s sitting down rather then being active and annoy me or look for food and she’s not in one single spot she’s moving around sitting down
Check her vent (you can see how to do this online) to just see if the coloring and overall look are ok. Make sure she’s eating and drinking, but sounds like she’s still having difficulty. If possible I’d isolate her for a few days, check her vent and her droppings, and see how she’s doing in another day or two. You can email me too and I’ll try to help more, I don’t want to say for sure that there’s something wrong but we can figure it out together - theMama@realsimplemama.com
@@realsimplemama i just checked her vent and it seems to be like pulsating and i can’t seem to find a hole or her hole looks small. she has ate and she did poop a few times today overall just sitting down not doing much
@@realsimplemama i just did more researched and looks like she has a prolapsed vent. her vent looks inside out and i’m going to find a way to treat this as soon as possible
Thanks so much. It’s been… weird. If you haven’t checked out the video about water belly that I posted late last week, this hen actually has that condition instead and is not egg bound. All of the methods I taught in this video to work for this condition but she is suffering from some thing else that is not curable.
am heartbroken coz i was listening advice to put my pet chicken in warm water with magnesium but i didnt know she is not just egg bound she had an infection that was causing her to be egg bound...I wish i knew this before i put her in warm water twice,after second time she started to shake for maby 20 mins...i run to a vet but shw died after i got there...now i am blaming myself for her death ...Never ever put her in warm water or use drier if you heavent check if she have high temperature already...i can not tell you how sad i am...dont do this mistake..go to vet
I had a severely egg bound hen...and finally had to break the egg to get it out. It's a long story, but after removing that egg...she passed another egg and was then fine. I flushed her well with warm saline solution daily for several days, while keeping her in the hospital cage. Isolate these hens from the other hens, because they are inquisitive and will pick and peck on the hen's vent. Having feces built up and dried over her vent can block everything...urine, feces, and eggs. It's important to look at your hens daily and not allow feces to build up, for whatever reason.
🤒 i am sooo worry my is been like this 4 days, started siting in the nest and walking around drunk like, the she try to push but nothing, she was not able to poo, i put oil and put Q-tip with oil and she poop 1 everyday, notbafter givingher xalcium and magnesium wr are in day 4, antibiitics and pain pill 2 a day, soaks and nothing,only poop, this morning she was able to poop and stand in he own, I feed her and gave her water, she wants more food than wated, hse is under baby liquid cutamin c, I dont know what else to do, i put my finger in and felt no egg 😥😢😭she is a pullet dint think she was ready to lay about 7 and half months
Oh I am so sorry! If she is eating and drinking, and able to poop, I would leave her alone for a week or so. Young hens who are new layers often have to figure out what to do and what it feels like. She may be doing the squatting like I call the “chicken bow” and that means she will start laying soon. ❤️
I wish you would be graphic. We that are learning, learn best when shown what we can do. Even cleaning the poo off her feathers. I lost a chicken the day before yesterday, and I'm sure she was egg bound. I didn't know that was what it was until it was too late. Now, I'm sure another chicken is egg bound. Yesterday, I soaked her in the epsom salt, but only for 5 minutes. I thought that was all that was needed. She seemed a little better afterwards, but this morning, not so much. :(
I have to be careful because my videos can get reported, flagged, etc. But I can try to help individuals with appropriate, relevant questions. I’m so sorry about being egg bound. Longer soaks never harm anything! ✌🏻❤️🐓
@@realsimplemama Ty. Yt is going to be the thing of the past if they don't stop all the censoring. So sad. I am going to try the bath again in a little while and do it a lot longer. She just seems so lethargic, if that is the proper word. At first I thought she was just sad, being moved from her original owner, that decided she didn't want chickens anymore, but it's going on a month now. I've been researching so much, I'm on overload.
My hen was egg bound once this summer and her butt was low, which is how I could tell. I held her like a baby on her back and lightly messaged and actually rocked her.....when I sat her back down the egg dropped out. I probably got really lucky this worked. I love your videos, helps me a lot being a first time chicken mama...lol.
Wow thats lucky! And yes to gently rubbing front to back. I’m just terrified of the egg breaking inside her 😬 also be careful of holding them on their back as they start to get “sleepy” but really they’re being asphyxiated 😳 I’ve done it before because I didn’t know and I’m glad my chicken didn’t die so I wanted to warn you ❤️ if they start to close their eyes you gotta turn them back over!
We haven't experienced this yet. With 58 girls, I'm sure it's only a matter of time. We've had to give a couple a bath to clean a messy back end. Thanks for sharing this video.
Hey girl! Get an eye dropper & fill it full of mineral oil & squeeze all of the oil into her vent, it will lubricate everything inside & will not hurt her. I have done that & it worked
Sara I’m currently in a similar situation to where I thought my girl was egg bound & now I’m wondering if she has water belly. What treatment did you ultimately give your hen when she had water belly? Thank you. I really appreciate all of the advice & information you share.
R.I.P. sweet Callie. ❤
Hey there, I’m so sorry about that. I didn’t get a chance to drain her because she passed away but I wish I had time to learn how. I did keep her isolated and simplified her diet but I know that wasn’t really sufficient. ✌🏻❤️🐓
I really hope your chicken will be ok. Wishing you all the best.
Would my hen be egg bound if it feels like the egg is in the front about half way down her chest. Did the soaking,think I was in the right area. Did this by my self,going to check again when i have help. Was eating / drinking, didn t have an egg for 3 days today. She does lay daily. Thank you so much
Nope, that’s actually her crop. It also shouldn’t be hard but if she’s been out eating all day as normal, it would feel full. Be careful squeezing that though as you can make her aspirate (food comes back up like vomit but then goes back into lungs) as this can be fatal. But do a quick Google search for the chicken anatomy and you’ll see what I mean.
An egg issue would be down between her legs, or towards her vent.
@@realsimplemama thank you so much
You’re welcome! Let me know if you need more help. theMama@realsimplemama.com
I have an egg bound chicken right now, I cleaned and soaked her and will continue to do so until it passes. I'm curious to know if your hen made it?
Yes! She ended up passing weeks later but it was related to a predator attack. 😖 the only thing to be aware of is that an egg bound chicken will often pass that egg, and be ok for a while, but technically it’s a reproductive issue so she will probably end up egg bound again. ✌🏼❤️🐓
@@realsimplemama thanks for responding so quickly, I'm worried about her. Sorry about your hen. I really don't want to lose any of my chickens. It's so sad.
Oh my .... I've not had this chicken very long and she's absolutely gigantic! I have no idea if she's going to cooperate....any suggestions?
Yes! Get a plastic bin with a locking lid. Cut a hole for her neck and head to come through. Put the warm water and epsom salt in, put her in and out her head through the lid. Lock it. That way she can safely be in the water and you don’t have to hold her.
@@realsimplemama thank you RSM very inventive!
Oh my gosh I think this is what’s wrong with my chicken Ronda we are going to bring her in tonight and keep her inside in a dog cage after we soak her because it is cold here in Ohio. Please pray that this works.❤️🙏 you’re the best every time I need some thing I come straight to you. God bless you.❤️🙏 what ever happened? Did that help her to pass the egg and was she OK then?❤️🙏
Hi! Yes in my case my girl did pass the egg and had no more issues. I hope Ronda is ok, please keep me posted. ✌🏻❤️🐓
@@realsimplemama thank you for your response. We did the Epson salt bath yesterday and kept her in the house in a puppy crate. We repeated the same thing tonight. We are not sure if she is egg bound. She is not eating a lot or drinking a lot and actually no poop.❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏😭😭
I’m so sorry I know it’s scary and stressful. I’d continue to isolate her, try to feed her something softer like scrambled eggs, and look into massaging her. I know there is a risk of breaking an egg inside her but my concern at this point would be that she’s not pooping at all. When you soak her, make sure the vent gets under the water too and that she’s clean back there. ✌🏻❤️🐓 I’ll help as much as I can. theMama@realsimplemama.com
I m so worried I wish Ashley would lay her egg I love your video thanks 🙏🐾🐣
My hen has been in this condition severs weeks. It feels like there's two eggs in the area under her vent. Trying to come out at the same time. I've soaked her & massaged her. Ive even put petroleum jelly at the opening of her vent, idk what else to do. 😞
I’m so sorry. I’d keep her isolated so you can really watch her intake and her droppings. Is there an avian vet you can take her to?
@@realsimplemama no there's no avian vet in my rural area. Ty for your reply
I think I have a Egg Bound girl.
I soaked her this morning, and separated her, but the problem is she's not eating (even offered a couple of bugs), she is drinking.
Very small amount of runny poop.
Any suggestions
Oh no I’m sorry. I’d keep doing the soaks, as many times a day for as long as you can. You can also feel her “undercarriage” like I talk about in the video and try to massage her front to back, but you have to be so careful so as to not break the egg. Otherwise I would consider getting her to a vet, as other home treatments can kill her if they don’t work. :( I’m sorry, keep me posted. ✌🏼❤️🐓
@@realsimplemama Thank you for I'm going to get a bath ready now.
This sucks she's such a sweet little girl.
@@realsimplemama I just peaked in on her she's is eating (I put a small can of dog food in this morning), and there is a little more runny stool in there. As soon as she is done eating it's bath time.
I even brought her in the house put her in one of the quite spare bedrooms and put a small space heater in there (cold and windy today).
@@realsimplemama We lost our little girl last night 😥
I hope she can get that egg out. She’s so cute. I definitely see a big difference between her and my chicken that has water belly/ascites. My chicken couldn’t comfortably lay down like yours is in your videos. The huge abdominal fluid sac was too much on her lungs and she couldn’t breathe well. She would lay up against the panels of the dog pen I was keeping her in to prop herself up or if she laid down she would crane her neck way up above her body (like a giraffes neck) to be able to breathe. It was hard to watch, but she’s doing much better.
I suspect you are right about yours being egg-bound. I hope she can pull through. Definitely a good idea to give her own food and water that she won’t have to walk over to so she can stay nourished. If her poop starts coming out green (like a grassy green or bile color) that’s a sign that she’s getting significantly malnourished and muscle wasting. Also, it’s ok for the bath water to be a little warmer, not hot, but warmer water will help relax her muscles and vent more which is the purpose. It’s also ok to do the bath more than once. I’d give her another if she didn’t pass that egg yet.
Thank you so much for your help. It’s been almost two weeks, the fluid has gone down but she’s not walking. Eating and drinking and poop is fine but no eggs. I think she’s older and heart is failing. She has all her own stuff and lots of baths, and lots of goodies like Greek yogurt.
If your chicken is egg bound start feeding vegetable oils to lubricate in the exit route too and Vaseline in the vent. Soak every hour until she lays the egg. Give her electrolytes and calcium ( Tums)
I personally don’t lubricate the vent because I know people who tried to insert fingers and they ended up breaking the egg inside the hen which is fatal. The other suggestions sound promising! ✌🏻❤️🐓
Hi Mama, Ive got a never laid before!! she 26 weeks old, polish bantam, so no cone. Ive bathe her in warm water, (no Epsom salts in the house) and put her in a box in a quite room in the house. Is it usual for a first time lay to be egg bound, and should i be worried about our other hen being on her own in the coop over night? (yes we only have two chucks now, the 3rd turned out to be a cock so had to take him back). Thanks for your advice, i always come to you first ♥
Hey! Hmmm. It’s not “normal” for her to be egg bound already but it’s also not impossible. Is she squatting or trying to sit in nesting boxes at all???
The other girl will be sad and lonely but it’s a temp thing so it’s ok ❤️
Email me and let me know how she’s doing! theMama@realsimplemama.com
@@realsimplemama Just emailed you ty ♥
how long does it take for a hen to recover after a egg drops? my chicken dropped her egg today after finding out she was egg bound yesterday but she’s still acting weird i’m not sure if that is normal since it is my first year raising one.
Hmmm I mean she should feel better within a day or two. Acting weird how?
@@realsimplemama well it’s currently her bed time and she’s been walking back to normal and eating but she’s sitting down rather then being active and annoy me or look for food and she’s not in one single spot she’s moving around sitting down
Check her vent (you can see how to do this online) to just see if the coloring and overall look are ok. Make sure she’s eating and drinking, but sounds like she’s still having difficulty. If possible I’d isolate her for a few days, check her vent and her droppings, and see how she’s doing in another day or two. You can email me too and I’ll try to help more, I don’t want to say for sure that there’s something wrong but we can figure it out together - theMama@realsimplemama.com
@@realsimplemama i just checked her vent and it seems to be like pulsating and i can’t seem to find a hole or her hole looks small. she has ate and she did poop a few times today overall just sitting down not doing much
@@realsimplemama i just did more researched and looks like she has a prolapsed vent. her vent looks inside out and i’m going to find a way to treat this as soon as possible
I hope everything will be okay. 🥺
Thanks so much. It’s been… weird. If you haven’t checked out the video about water belly that I posted late last week, this hen actually has that condition instead and is not egg bound. All of the methods I taught in this video to work for this condition but she is suffering from some thing else that is not curable.
@@realsimplemama 🥺😢😫 I'm really enjoying your channel. 🥰
That bowl doesn't look big enough to reach her vent.
am heartbroken coz i was listening advice to put my pet chicken in warm water with magnesium but i didnt know she is not just egg bound she had an infection that was causing her to be egg bound...I wish i knew this before i put her in warm water twice,after second time she started to shake for maby 20 mins...i run to a vet but shw died after i got there...now i am blaming myself for her death ...Never ever put her in warm water or use drier if you heavent check if she have high temperature already...i can not tell you how sad i am...dont do this mistake..go to vet
Oh no I am so sorry about that. ✌🏻❤️🐓
I had a severely egg bound hen...and finally had to break the egg to get it out. It's a long story, but after removing that egg...she passed another egg and was then fine. I flushed her well with warm saline solution daily for several days, while keeping her in the hospital cage. Isolate these hens from the other hens, because they are inquisitive and will pick and peck on the hen's vent. Having feces built up and dried over her vent can block everything...urine, feces, and eggs. It's important to look at your hens daily and not allow feces to build up, for whatever reason.
Oh my gosh. I’m proud of you. I know that treatment can be intense! I’m glad it worked so well. ✌🏻❤️🐓
🤒 i am sooo worry my is been like this 4 days, started siting in the nest and walking around drunk like, the she try to push but nothing, she was not able to poo, i put oil and put Q-tip with oil and she poop 1 everyday, notbafter givingher xalcium and magnesium wr are in day 4, antibiitics and pain pill 2 a day, soaks and nothing,only poop, this morning she was able to poop and stand in he own, I feed her and gave her water, she wants more food than wated, hse is under baby liquid cutamin c, I dont know what else to do, i put my finger in and felt no egg 😥😢😭she is a pullet dint think she was ready to lay about 7 and half months
Oh I am so sorry! If she is eating and drinking, and able to poop, I would leave her alone for a week or so. Young hens who are new layers often have to figure out what to do and what it feels like. She may be doing the squatting like I call the “chicken bow” and that means she will start laying soon. ❤️
@@realsimplemama i feed her and give her water electrolytes and liquid vitamin d
Ok good. I would just give her more time. She’s never done this before so let her instincts kick in and see how she does in a week. ❤️
I wish you would be graphic. We that are learning, learn best when shown what we can do. Even cleaning the poo off her feathers. I lost a chicken the day before yesterday, and I'm sure she was egg bound. I didn't know that was what it was until it was too late. Now, I'm sure another chicken is egg bound. Yesterday, I soaked her in the epsom salt, but only for 5 minutes. I thought that was all that was needed. She seemed a little better afterwards, but this morning, not so much. :(
I have to be careful because my videos can get reported, flagged, etc. But I can try to help individuals with appropriate, relevant questions. I’m so sorry about being egg bound. Longer soaks never harm anything! ✌🏻❤️🐓
@@realsimplemama Ty. Yt is going to be the thing of the past if they don't stop all the censoring. So sad. I am going to try the bath again in a little while and do it a lot longer. She just seems so lethargic, if that is the proper word. At first I thought she was just sad, being moved from her original owner, that decided she didn't want chickens anymore, but it's going on a month now. I've been researching so much, I'm on overload.
I have a sick hen too.
I’m so sorry. Let me know if you need help and I’ll do what I can. theMama@realsimplemama.com
I lost a couple from that
Oh no. I’m so sorry. ✌🏻❤️🐓
@@realsimplemama Thanks. Glad I watched your video.