:cd My Girl has a large Bloody hole into her back side(graffic photo)

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Wheelon

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This morning I found a bloody egg, I checked the girls and found 1 with a tear in her but and the guts showing, I isolated her and gave her a bath in medicated soap (not Anti Bac) Wound soap, I dabbed her wound with Hydrogen peroxide, Here is some photos of her butt and of the enclosure with the othef 2 (which are doing fine) they are about 9 months old and do lay eggs, the patient is about 10 months (oldest) They eat egg laying mesh, a head of broccolli and a cup of rice every morrrning and meat scrape once or twice a week. (they will not shut up untill they get the broccolli, which I hang from a bungey so they play with it as it bounces. They were laying 3-5 eggs a day (all three Rhode Island Reds.) Was Happy California chickens. I notice the yesterday some blood on one of the Twins beak. Here are some graffic pictures .
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It is Sunday and the Vet is closed. Do not really have alot of money for the vet.
What to do or is this a lost cause?
 
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FIRST Welcome!

Glad you found BYC.

Second, I would go back and change the title of your thread, we have folks from down under here.

I would keep her isolated, and I would put antibiotic ointment and a bandage if you can get it to stay on the wound, until you can take her to a vet if you are willing to spend that kind of $$.
 
That bird needs to go to the vet. It looks like something has gone at her. How secure is your coop?
 
Vary Secure enclosere I built as a cube with cyclone on all 6 sides and a locking gate
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Would the other 2 girl have ganged up on her last night? and done all that damage?? it was fine yesterday.
It look like it is under the vent and she did lay a egg this morning.
I also brought her inside to keep the fly and yellow jackets away.
She is active and eating and drinking.
 
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I'm sad to say that if you aren't taking her to the vet, I'd cull her. That HAS to be painful and it can get infected. Could she have prolapsed and the others gone at her?
 
Don't know the vent looks fine no pink (like in the pictures i have seen)
I think the twins (We call them) as I got them as friends for sammy, which I rescued from a rental unit as a chick 2 weeks old. The tenants moved and they left her behind and I took her home, Just like the rabbit and 2 turtles, hard to believe that people move and leave animals behind. Anyway they might have ganged up on her, Nothing else can get in to the enclosure.
 
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I suspect what happened is that while laying her egg last night, she prolapsed and the girls picked at it. her vent appears puffy as might happen after a prolapse. That was the "guts" you were seeing - her cloaca, usually inside, was on the outside. Were they truly her guts she would be dead. So this is a good(ish) thing.

First thing, do clean the area with warm water and iodine mixed into a very light tea-colored solution. Pat dry. Then coat with an antibiotic ointment that doesn't contain pain killers and doesn't contain any cortisone.

Separate her. If you have flies, then put her inside away from them. One fly can lay 300 eggs which can hatch within a day. If that happens, just reclean as above and re-dress again. Do as often as the remaining larva hatch. It's NOT a death sentence.

I feel this is a rather standard post-prolapse post-picking vent. If her vent starts to pop out again, you can use Preparation H if you have that product there. It's a hemorrhoid creme whose active ingredient is Phenylephrine HCl 0.25%. (It's a vasoconstrictor - it shrinks tissues making them go back in.)

Keep her separate, offer her and the other girls oyster shell in addition to the laying pellets. Give them all some yogurt for a week, daily, and then just once a week for the next month during their first weeks of laying. The vitamin D in it will help calcium usage, and the living bacteria in it will help their overall health.

I don't feel that she needs to be culled. Just cleaned up and kept from prolapsing again. Often an additional need for calcium can cause them to push harder when laying, particularly in starting pullets. That can cause them to prolapse. We are simulataneously boosting their calcium absorbtion as well as treating this prolapse and wound.

If you can get a 'cillin antibiotic there and feel she might get infected, you could use that daily for a week. I think with a good cleaning with the very very dilute iodine and keeping her vent dry, she should recover nicely.

incidentally, she'll need to be kept away from the others for a week minimum.
 
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