What makes a chicken coop easy to live with?

[batcatz]

I was just watching my lavender araucana scratching about in the garden. I picked her up, noticed she had a dirty bottom so I tried to clean it off with a bit of kitchen roll. Then I noticed her vent looked swollen and a bit watery.

 

After I did this she kept stopping and looked like she was straining to poo. I saw just a runny bit of water come out and hoped it wasn't egg white. I decided to put her back in the run thinking I would ask for advice on here in case she had an egg stuck or broken.... I picked her up, looked at her vent again. I heard a pffffft noise and thought what on earth is that! Then I noticed what I thought was an almighty prolaspe. I was slowly putting her down on the ground when a small egg shot out onto the floor! It's cracked, but I will stick it in my omlette tonight!

 

I noticed her eggs were getting smaller and less frequent this week and she laid one on the floor of the run... maybe that shot out too. Could something be wrong?

[Egluntyne]

If she has a dirty bottom, she might have worms. If you haven't done so recently, I'd give her a course of Flubenvet.

[batcatz]

Thanks, they regularly have verm-x, and the other chickens eggs are getting bigger. I knew the day would come soon for Flubenvet so I'm going to buy a 240g tub asap as it's more cost effective. Am trawling google for some at the moment.

[staceychristie]

Flubenvet will sort out worms (get the complicated dosage correct though). I think , reading these forums that VermX is a preventer rather than a treatment. Got mine from Hyperdrug.com, and arrived the next day!

Ours are just finishing a weeks run of Flubenvet, and they've picked up quite well.

 

Stacey

[batcatz]

Thanks, I found it with slightly cheaper delivery on here: http://www.greenfarmhealth.co.uk/

 

Lucy lavender hasn't laid an egg since Monday! The other chooks are laying well though.

Edit: Just found a blue egg. That always happens on here doesn't it.