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DeWayne Edgin:
I have a Silver LF hen that has a swollen butt. It is so big that she drags it around when she walks or in her case waddles. Is this an egg bound hen and if so what can i do to help her? My Silvers are small hens but they all lay huge eggs.

greeneggsandham:
Well, if she is egg bound, I have read that soaking them in warm water baths sometimes helps.  Not sure how often you have to do it though. 
I also don't know how you can know for sure if she is eggbound or maybe just laying internally.  I have a hen that I believe lays internally.  There was a point where she was dragging the ground but she was also laying some flat sided eggs.  So, I took her out of the coop and out of the extra lighting and made sure she had the extra oyster shell she wanted.  She would eat a pile of oystershell daily and it seemed to help.   I read that their body will just absorb the extra yolks they lay.  Idk.  I thought maybe the extra lighting was making her produce more eggs than she had calcium for.  She appears to be fine now.

Mike Gilbert:
   Idk???

John:

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Mike,
It's ironic that we didn't know what IDK stands for.  I looked it up...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/IDK


--- Quote ---IDK
1.(Internet slang, text messaging) I don't know.
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Now I can add it to my list of other three letter initialisms, like FYI, DIY, CIA, KGB and IGA ;D

Mike Gilbert:
  I guess when a person is retired, has the time, and knows how to spell they don't feel the need for it.
  I was pretty sure IDK  wasn't  "It's Dirty Kumquats."   But then I consider BBS to be just plain BS too, so it's probably just me.   Eccentric, that is.

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