have you ever seen a chicken get a bath I have a chicken it's egg bound and I'm
going to show you how you can recognize that and what I'm thinking to do is
Soaker but her vent in some warm soapy water
for about a half an hour and I'm going to have to massage your bud I don't like
this any more than you do but she might enjoy so uh drink a soda
that's a soda I don't drink beer I don't drink at all and uh go get her she's in
pain and drinking soda I'll take you out there and show you what to look for in a
pound chicken and how to possibly cure it yourself
there she is
you can see she's in discomfort and her back is kind of hunched and watch her
but see how she keeps convulsing like she's trying to push out a poop that's
her trying to push out an egg and this is the second day I wished I had noticed
what was going on yesterday poor thing we're going to get you fixed up baby
girl just a minute I got to get a couple things set up and I'll come back and get
you this is my lawn mower shop once you give them this bath you want to separate
them from the rest of the chickens because you got to give them plenty of
time to relax because what they're trying to do is pass an egg that's too
big for that the vent tube but they pass eggs through and you want to keep it
warm but not hot and I got my it's kind of hot out here so I got my fan blowing
into this cage and uh after I give her the bath and rubber but I'll shut the
lights off and put her in that cage I got water and food in there and it'll be
kind of dark so she can be all to herself without being disturbed by
though the chickens all right let's go well I'll show you when I get in there
I've got a tub of a big old washed pan of warm soapy water in there
and mother shop because the chair is more comfortable and I'm gonna have to
sit there and hold her in the water at first man if she gets used to a little
bit maybe I can hold her in there with one hand while I I do the dirty with the
other hand hey let's get after it I'm not making any promises
we'll see how this works get you back in there oh it feels so hard up under there
this poor thing if this doesn't work next thing is to get a little more ugly
with it and you got to go inside her vent tube with a little lubrication and
you may even have to poke a hole in the egg that's bound up and suck out the
insides with like a syringe and then bust the egg okay okay you're doing
I'm not going to make you watch this whole half-hour ordeal but I'll bring
you back when we're close to heaven that the massage Doug how is that for a happy
chicken
chicken soup
we're not done yet I should thinking when I lay one already
I oh give her about a half an hour and rub her butt off and on and we're fixing
to go stick her in that cage out there and give her some peace and quiet and
some dark so she can really relax and maybe push that air going through okay
sweetie leave you alone in here for a little while a day maybe two I'm not
going to put that fan right on you though until you dry off some so if it
works I'll let you know if it doesn't I'll let you know what my next step is
going to be and that there's not an egg in the morning probably going to take
some kind of lubrication and go up in that vent with my finger and if nothing
else see if I can feel the egg and maybe put a little Vaseline on her tube I
don't know I don't want to lose her and I don't want her to be in pain so see
you tomorrow well uh my chicken did not pass that egg so I got to move on to
step two this is mineral oil and I had a large eyedropper but I have tore the
house apart I can't find it but what I do have is a hydrometer now you check
your electrolytes with me see ya this is a battery hydrometer you check your
batteries with it but this has never been used I have two one that I've used
so I'm going to fill this up with mineral oil and can you guess where it's
going let me go get the little patient I'll be right back all right this may
not be something you want to watch
okay I know that was nasty I'm fixing to put her back in her cage
see what happens tomorrow I really feel sorry for I wish it was more I can do
I'll let you know because if this doesn't work I'm gonna have to take
another route that I won't chew on camera thanks for watching well it
worked she is a happy girl let me tell you and I'll tell you what I did I
didn't record it because it was kind of disgusting
I had to get her back up into my shop on the bench and hold her down and I put
mineral oil on my finger and I had to go up in that vent with a mineral oil and
wipe it around in there and now she won't stop calling me anyway she's all
better so that's one way to cure an egg bound hen yep she's a much happier girl
alrighty thanks for watching it's been interesting