1st chicken prolapse

[Liz Birdlover]

I've had a few prolapses with homing pigeons before, treated them easily. So this is my 1st prolapse with a chicken...and good grief, It's bigger and nastier!

Well I've been working with my little 7 year old EE, Pepper Sprout, for 2 hours now. The 1st hour was basically relaxing her, soaking her bottom in warm water, cleaning her with vetericin, she actually enjoyed that. Then I was able to work the prolapse back in.

This next hour, she's basically been sitting on my lap, and whenever she tries to push it back out, I'm trying to gently push it in. I'm gently holding her vent, poo can come out but not the prolapse. This seemed to work with Pigeons but this is a much bigger vent! I realize it will probably be pushed out & need to gently pushed back in, but the longer I can hold her my lap like this, the better odds of it staying put.

An old timer once told me to use white sugar and just pat gently on the cleaned prolapse, and tuck it back in, something about the sugar helping it shrink and stay. I will have to go get the sugar but right now she's on my lap and I'm doing everything one handed. I'm sure you all know how that goes, When you've got chickens and roosters you learn how to do many things one handed you never thought you could do before.

So here are some photos. I wasn't prepared for just the sheer size of this thing hanging out of her back end! Luckily I hadn't eaten yet so I didn't throw up!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I learn something new every day!

 

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[Liz Birdlover]

So far so good. We have high wind, rain, a crazy storm with tornado warnings, so little Pepper Sprout is going to spend the night close by, in my bathroom. I've read where the best thing to give her right now is just some fresh chick weed but nothing else to eat. I'm going to give her some fresh Spring water with a little Apple cider vinegar as her breath smells a bit sour. I just set her down and she's standing there looking up at me, she is very calm, a tame hen. She hasn't pushed the prolapse back out...yet, but I'm going to get some white sugar handy out of the kitchen, so if she pushes it back out, I will be ready to push it back in with some sugar like the old timer told me to do. It worked very well with the homing pigeons. I'll keep you all up-to-date.

She's waiting in my shower while I get sugar...so far so good, sweet little hen.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Wow, so this is odd, I just saw her push, as if to poop, the prolapse came out somewhat, but then it went right back in!!!
I'm really hoping for the best. The fact that I didn't have to push it back in is a good sign right?

She's checking out the hen in the mirror.

 

[Eggcessive]

It seems to be going well for your hen. Honey is also good to put on the prolapse tissue, and it does the same thing as sugar syrup. It acts by reducing the swelling by osmotic pressure. Hopefully, she will heal up and recover well. As you know, it can happen again later.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

It seems to be going well for your hen. Honey is also good to put on the prolapse tissue, and it does the same thing as sugar syrup. It acts by reducing the swelling by osmotic pressure. Hopefully, she will heal up and recover well. As you know, it can happen again later.

I will use honey instead.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

This morning I jumped out of bed to check on little miss Pepper Sprout. Everything is still tucked in! Hope it stays that way.

She hasn't eaten any chickweed yet...hope she will. Maybe a live mealworm will catch her eye & get her started.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Update...so happy, Pepper Sprout has stayed all tucked in! She is doing great!