3 year old Hen has been bleeding from vent - Is it time?

[Jessie9388]

I have a three year old RIR/RIW cross. We call her Ugly Butt because she has no feathers back there and is the sweetest hen. We two year old daughter can just sit there and pet her. She has always laid extremely large eggs and never seemed to have a problem. Saturday morning I went out to fed them and noticed her vent was open to about the size of an egg, all bloody and looked actually torn on one side, there was a large egg in the nesting box but there was no blood on it (Not sure if it came from her). It did not look like the inside was coming out like on a prolapes. I put her in a dog kennel inside the coop, (I only have 1 coop) and reduced her food to hopefully slow her laying. She usually lays daily. The next day (Sunday) her vent was all closed up but just puckered out a bit, all blood had dried. All along she has been acting COMPLETELY normal.Then Monday morning when I went to let her out she had slimmy bloody discharge coming out of her vent. A couple hours later I went to check on her and she had laid an egg. It was discolored but otherwise looked normal. It was all bloody but the discharge had stopped coming out of her vent and by last night it was all dried up again. This morning when I went to fed once again it was all bloody again...

Is this something that will just happen everytime she lays from now on or will she ever heal? I only have 1 coop and 1 outdoor run area so keeping her confined to a dog kennel just isnt fair and also I am having to go out there after dark and before first light in the morning to put her in her kennel since she sleeps in the hen house. She is coming to the age where I do not know how many years she will even have laying and I can not keep her seperated her whole life. Is it her time to be put down? If so anyone have an human ways of doing it?

 

[Tabbyshappyhens]

I have had one year old hens do this, and didn't know what was going on. I would love to hear from someone that knows. Thank you for asking.

 

[Jessie9388]

Tabby, So what ended up happening or what did you do?

 

[Jessie9388]

Has any one experienced this? I really need some suggestions/answers. Thanks!

 

[Jessie9388]

So I have figured out that Ugly Butt must have laid an egg and either was bleeding alittle bit from it being large or her vent was not completely closed and the other chickens pecked at it since she has no feathers back there. :-( I was putting her inside the coop after dark and letting them at at 7 or 7:30 but she was always bleeding. I thought it was because she was laying an egg but now I know that they were pecking at her in the coop before I got out to feed them... What can I do? I've been spraying it with the purple wound spray to keep it from getting infected but even with that or Rooster Booster will they peck at her scab? They know it is back there now. I only have 1 coop and can seperate them during the day but have no where to put her at night. She is still laying daily.