-Sometimes, birds die because they are unable to lay eggs. When the chicken are slaughtered, one can find an egg has blocked the rectum and at times the egg has broken inside the hen…
Egg binding is mostly caused by nutritional deficiencies and unbalanced diets. Low levels of vitamin D3 Magnesium and Phosphorus affect mobilization of calcium for egg-shell formation.
The calcium deficiency affects the hardness of the egg-shell, yet this is what allows muscle contraction to push the egg through the oviduct.
The egg must be extracted (manually) without breaking inside the hen, then dietary deficiencies corrected to solve the problem. Other factors like dehydration, sedentarism (caged chicken), size, and shape of the egg or other diseases can cause egg binding.
Source: Daily Nation
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