Egg Bound Chickens

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Egg Bound Chickens

23-04-2009, 06:15 PM

Am having trouble with some of our chickens that are repeatedly getting egg bound and in such a state that it is killing them. The ones that have it happening to the most are "Black Sexlink" and it has taken 3 in the past month. Nothing has happened to their feed excepting that they now get more greens in their diet. I recently moved to this Kibbutz and have raised chickens before on my own and never had this problem before and am feeding these chickens the same way as I fed my other hens. Does anyone know why a hen gets egg bound in the first place and how to stop this from happening???

Shalom
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bluemoon

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23-04-2009, 06:46 PM

Is it possible that they have some sort of disease/illness and becoming egg bound is just a symptom of it rather than the root cause? I only ask this because three deaths in a month seems a little extreme and it seems more like something contagious than something physiological

Last edited by bluemoon; 23-04-2009, 06:47 PM.

Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.
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