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Don’t beat yourself up. It was not your fault, and I doubt if you could have helped. Prolapsed vents happen, and this was an especially bad case. You may not have been able to prevent this, since it happens to many good egg layers.

Sometimes a hen will suffer from a prolapse and the bowel will spill out if there is a lot of straining. This is the worst type of prolase, and nothing can be done to save the life. Sometimes another chicken can help to pull it out, but it does happen on it’s own. Occasionally we see this when...