Anyone have experience with prolapsed cloacae?

[Lugh]

Hi everyone,

I have a 15-month old muscovy female who has a partially prolapsed cloaca. I'm not terribly worried about it as she's at the vet getting treatment, but I would like to hear from others who have had ducks that have suffered from the same condition. How did everything end up working out? What treatment worked best? Was your duck able to go back to regular eating and egg laying? Did the condition recur?

For those that are curious, the vet is using steroidal creams to shrink the tissue rather than suturing it back into place. He wants to be as conservative as possible.

 

[Amiga]

Sechs had a prolapse. I took her to the vet, had a soft egg removed and three stitches in her vent.

Took her home, placed her in the night pen with the curtains drawn. Not pitch black, but not full light. I had forgotten to collect eggs that morning in my haste to get her to help.

Well, in a few hours she had collected the eggs and made a nest. She sat broody for over two months, with a morning break and an evening break. After a few days I had one suture removed so she could safely lay, but she did not lay while broody.

It is now two years later - no more prolapse. She needs extra calcium, though, to keep from laying soft eggs, and if I cannot get her to take it, sometimes she does lay a soft one, but no more prolapses.