egg peritonitis and strange object

Hi Tanya
Is Milo still ok?  Hettie is over whatever she had but is still recovering from the accident she then had.  She is trying to eat but in reality is managing very little.  She aims at the food but misses it.  None stop worry at the moment. Still, today is a beautiful mild, sunny, day and my heart can't help but be lifted by it.

yes hang on in  there, things will improve and you will find the good days far outweigh the bad ones 

Hi Cheeps,
Hope Hettie is continuing to get better.  Milo is back to her old self and has been off the antibiotics for about a week (after a month-long course).  Fingers crossed they've done the trick and she continues to live the dream.  My attention has now turned to catching the blasted mice that have started to make their way inside my home - had on in the bedroom the other night which was not pleasant!  Ginger, my oldest girl, has chased and caught a few outside (having caught them by their tails Ginger runs around the yard with them in her beak until she's far enough away from the others to kill and devour), so I momentarily thought about having her in the house to catch the others - much more effective than a cat that will just play with them!   Anyway, have laid pet-friendly baits and hope they'll do the trick - but I'd be interested in hearing who others deal with mice infestations (this is the first one I've had in the two years I've had chooks).
Cheers,
Tanya

bucket with a ramp. pierce a plastic bottle...I smeared mine in glue and then chicken corn, then place a stick through the bottle and rest on bucket top with ramp next to it...mouse goes up ramp, onto bottle and fulls in.
Better than plastic traps as mouse ate it's way out.

Hi,

I'm completely new to this website and have been looking for a while for an answer to a question similar to Tanya's. I have a 2 yr old white leghorn who has been looking miserable for a couple of days and off her feed.  Today she spent a fair while in the nesting box and when she moved away she had laid/pooped three longish creamy yellow items.  They looked waxy but were in fact kind of rubbery.  There was no blood that I could see.  I'm wondering if this is related to a bigger problem though.  I have three chooks (1 Isa Brown, 1 Black Australorp and the leghorn) which laid just about an egg a day each for the first 18 months.  Then, just before Christmas the laying became more spasmodic (bearing in mind that here in the southern hemisphere it is warm now). Often the eggs that were being laid were so soft they were more like plastic bags than eggs. I now haven't had an egg between them for about a month.  Two of them have just completed their autumn moult.  But could this be egg drop syndrome?  And if so, do the chooks get over it? 

Any advice really appreciated.