{"id":10171,"date":"2017-10-24T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=10171"},"modified":"2017-10-24T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:50:09","slug":"chickens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=10171","title":{"rendered":"Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When checking on the chickens, I noticed Beyoncegg hanging out in the nesting box.  She&#8217;s not one to usually go broody, but I figured she was busy with egg laying.  When I came back later and checked for eggs, she was still there.  I opened the coop door and she was struggling to get out of the box.  When she did get out and walk away, I noticed goopy runny egg around her vent.  I remembered reading somewhere about eggs that could be broken inside the chicken, and I picked her up and brought her inside.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2017\/Q3-July-September-2017\/2017-08-13-Paige-Phone\/20170710_103549.jpg?m=1502756870\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I put her in the sink and held on to her so she wouldn&#8217;t go wildly flapping around and asked Ryan to look up on his phone what we should do with her.  &#8220;It says take her to the vet.&#8221;  Are you kidding?  I don&#8217;t want a huge vet bill so I decided to wash her vent with warm water and see if I could remove any shell with tweezers or fingers.  I was able to grab a piece of a rubbery egg shell (the shell doesn&#8217;t get hard until right before the egg is laid) and pull it out.  <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes things go wrong in the egg laying cycle, and it could be dangerous to the bird if not taken care of.  I read up about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-chicken-chick.com\/2012\/07\/chicken-egg-binding-causes-symptoms.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gross, yes.  But cheaper than a vet visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When checking on the chickens, I noticed Beyoncegg hanging out in the nesting box. She&#8217;s not one to usually go broody, but I figured she was busy with egg laying. When I came back later and checked for eggs, she was still there. I opened the coop door and she was struggling to get out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10172,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions\/10172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}