Aloishhh
Chirping
Hello, long time reader, first time poster. I need help. I think, no i know she's egg bound and prolapse, i just don't know what I'm looking at and now she's not doing well at all. How can I help her? Can I even help her?
Here's the timeline so far:
2 mornings ago(Friday morning) i noticed my 9mo old hen, who has laid eggs for the last maybe 3 or 4 months, with a nasty butt. I, of course, gathers info from this forum's wise and helpful members and decided to wash her with some epsom salts assuming it was vent gleet or whatever it is. Upon further soaking in the milk house sink i saw and felt what could only be an egg. Looking at it, it was for sure an egg. Red, bulging and round. But then it felt a bit like fleshy? I didn't want to touch it more so I dried her up, got her some food(layer feed+scratch grains coated with powdered calcium+D3) and water. She began pecking away at the grain and sipped some water. I visited her later in the day and again soaked her, freshened her water and checked her butt. No change on all fronts. Saturday morning, i checked and soaked her again. Epsom salts, fresh water and calcium on her feed. She was eating again. Making her normal chicken noises, butt looking a little different. Not worse, or better i don't think. Just different. By then I'd googled and YouTubed as much as I could find and decided it was definitely prolapsed vent with egg bound. Her intestine hole is showing and working bc i could see green poop squeezing out of a red fleshy hole on the side of this egg shaped mass, but there's this white crap all over and i can't figure out what it is. I'm assuming it's the white part of an egg? Again, idk.
Another 2 soaks yesterday and now I'm here in this bathroom with her again. We just soaked and i examined her egg situation. It hasn't improved. If anything, she's getting more lethargic and pushing pretty hard to get it out.
Here's my issue. I don't have any idea what the flock I'm looking at exactly. Like, it looks like it's thru the vent(think bubble being blown) but hasn't been able to detach. But from another angle, it looks like it's inside her flesh but that flesh is outside of her body. She's pushing and i can hear either the sound of a shell being squished or it's the squish of her vent hole bc it's wet from the bath. I just don't know. I wish I would have posted yesterday or even earlier than now.
I'm just not confident i understand what my eyes are seeing. Can someone tell me what it is I'm seeing? What i can do? What i shouldn't do? I'm definitely bringing her to my vet Monday morning, but with her Almost sudden decline from this afternoon I'm worried.
Any insight would be appreciated. TIA.
Alex
Here's the timeline so far:
2 mornings ago(Friday morning) i noticed my 9mo old hen, who has laid eggs for the last maybe 3 or 4 months, with a nasty butt. I, of course, gathers info from this forum's wise and helpful members and decided to wash her with some epsom salts assuming it was vent gleet or whatever it is. Upon further soaking in the milk house sink i saw and felt what could only be an egg. Looking at it, it was for sure an egg. Red, bulging and round. But then it felt a bit like fleshy? I didn't want to touch it more so I dried her up, got her some food(layer feed+scratch grains coated with powdered calcium+D3) and water. She began pecking away at the grain and sipped some water. I visited her later in the day and again soaked her, freshened her water and checked her butt. No change on all fronts. Saturday morning, i checked and soaked her again. Epsom salts, fresh water and calcium on her feed. She was eating again. Making her normal chicken noises, butt looking a little different. Not worse, or better i don't think. Just different. By then I'd googled and YouTubed as much as I could find and decided it was definitely prolapsed vent with egg bound. Her intestine hole is showing and working bc i could see green poop squeezing out of a red fleshy hole on the side of this egg shaped mass, but there's this white crap all over and i can't figure out what it is. I'm assuming it's the white part of an egg? Again, idk.
Another 2 soaks yesterday and now I'm here in this bathroom with her again. We just soaked and i examined her egg situation. It hasn't improved. If anything, she's getting more lethargic and pushing pretty hard to get it out.
Here's my issue. I don't have any idea what the flock I'm looking at exactly. Like, it looks like it's thru the vent(think bubble being blown) but hasn't been able to detach. But from another angle, it looks like it's inside her flesh but that flesh is outside of her body. She's pushing and i can hear either the sound of a shell being squished or it's the squish of her vent hole bc it's wet from the bath. I just don't know. I wish I would have posted yesterday or even earlier than now.
I'm just not confident i understand what my eyes are seeing. Can someone tell me what it is I'm seeing? What i can do? What i shouldn't do? I'm definitely bringing her to my vet Monday morning, but with her Almost sudden decline from this afternoon I'm worried.
Any insight would be appreciated. TIA.
Alex