Thank you for your help. Vet care is not an option. I have been soaking, cleansing, and debriding it once a day. I am using neosporin, betadine and vetricyn. So far things seem a bit better. Once the prolapsed tissue look healthier, i am going to try an push it back in and hope it stays. Then I...
I feed my chickens a balanced diet of organic medicated layer feed and oyster shell. I only gave my injured girl some shre veggies because I brought her inside to a dark area with water and stopped her regular food to keep her from laying. When she is healed, I will resume her regular diet.
Thank you!!!! Sh is pooping slimy yeasty white with solid dark brown. She has been drinking water and this morning is eating some shredded veggies . I am continuing the soaks with applying neosporin. I am going to get som Epsom salts and betadine as well as vetrycin which i have used with other...
THANK YOU. I do not want to cull her. She started laying eggs young and has done fine with small eggs. This time the egg she was trying to lay was large (poor baby). He is in good health otherwise. She is 22 weeks old and has been laying since 18 weeks.
Yesterday, I found my hen had something large and bright red hanging from here rear end. It turned out that she had a prolapsed vent and the prolapse had a large hard shelled egg hanging in it. After much consulting soaking, and trials to gently push the prolapse back inside and also to try and...