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Help, Swollen abdomen

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Sharon Yorks:
How is your hen doing? Did the swelling go down?

IamBlessed:
Chicklover has been busy and has not posted an update on our hen.
She is still alive and still swollen.

She is getting around quickly with a waddle and is jumping up on stuff in te garage.  She even runs one of our Wheaten Splash hens out of the garage when we let her out (W S hen is having a rest from the cock since he is messing up her back from breeding).

She seems unaffected by it except for when you hold her she pants which is probably the pressure from touching her abdomen area when holding her.

She is very alert and seems happy.  I let her out in the garage every morning and she just walks around or gets up on stuff out there all day.  I put her back up in a travel coop every night.  She is eager to get out every morning.  She does not usually leave the garage area except for maybe going to the opening to eat some grass.  She is eating normal chicken feed and regular water.  The treatments we tried did not seem to improve her condition.

History on her:  she laid an egg that was tiny (I mean like a tiny blue bird egg - way smaller than any bantam egg).  A few weeks later she laid a normal sized egg again for a few days and then no more eggs from her.  Like Chicklover said, we were actually giving her and another hen to a 4-H kid when we discovered her issues.  With as many hens as we have we do not usually pick each one of them up.  That is when our daughter went out to get her and she discovered the swollen abdomen.

Well that is the latest.  Been told by many that it is a female issue and may never go back to laying eggs or if she does this may happen again.

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