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I dont keep chucks but my allotment is next door to a hen pen on the site and thanks to this site I may have averted the death of a hen.
I read on here a while ago about a hen with an egg stuck and realised that a hen on my mates pen had the same symptom today as in its egg tube/sack was sticking out of its backside and was bleeding and had what looked like puss dripping.
I realised this was a stuck egg after reading something on here a while ago and spoke to my mate who said this was the third hen with the same symptoms and that the other two had died, so I got a pair of latex gloves that I use for bee keeping and examined the hen and the egg was sideways so I straightened it and eased it out and a couple of minutes after another egg came out and the shell was still soft.
I bathed the rear of the hen and pushed its bit gently back in and put some vaseline on it until tomorrow when we are going to bath it again with a very dilute dettol solution in the hope that it will stave off infection and the hen may survive.
I dont keep chucks but my allotment is next door to a hen pen on the site and thanks to this site I may have averted the death of a hen.
I read on here a while ago about a hen with an egg stuck and realised that a hen on my mates pen had the same symptom today as in its egg tube/sack was sticking out of its backside and was bleeding and had what looked like puss dripping.
I realised this was a stuck egg after reading something on here a while ago and spoke to my mate who said this was the third hen with the same symptoms and that the other two had died, so I got a pair of latex gloves that I use for bee keeping and examined the hen and the egg was sideways so I straightened it and eased it out and a couple of minutes after another egg came out and the shell was still soft.
I bathed the rear of the hen and pushed its bit gently back in and put some vaseline on it until tomorrow when we are going to bath it again with a very dilute dettol solution in the hope that it will stave off infection and the hen may survive.
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