Black Australorp died unexpectedly please help me understand why

[Bawkbok]

We've had a couple of Australorp x he's go through a similar problem. They weren't as bad off when we gathered them for care as your poor sweet girl was, but their prolapses were far more distended. We washed any feces off of them in plain warm water while they were calm, then suspended them upside to apply raw honey to their bums. We've tried reinsertion, but most of the time it seemed to trigger a bowel movement that distended everything again, we did find though that holding them up by their feet for a little bit did relieve pressure on their backside and enabled everything to go back in on it's own. We kept them inside honey bummed them every day and slipped a tums down their throat for a week keeping them warm and cozy in a cat carrier size cage to limit activity.
They did both seem to recover and were reintroduced to the flock but even with the addition of calcium citrate to their daily feed those two hens did relapse in their conditions. One passing from a torn backside prolapse peck the other we euthanized after realizing it was just going to keep happening to the poor thing and was not healthy nor happy for her to keep going through it.
So sorry for your loss, it can be so hard.
Hopefully this info helps someone.

Thank you for sharing your experience and I'm sorry to hear about your girls. I love the Australorps, their look, their personality, everything about them - except their seemingly small vents.
I appreciate hearing what worked for you for treatment. I feel like we didn't even have a chance to really help her it all happened so very fast. I still don't understand it as she was laying perfectly every day - until she didn't. Her eggs were getting a little larger so I'm thinking she must have been working on a big one that just got stuck. We did not necropsy her but in hindsight I wish I would have to know for sure.

 

[ManOverBoard]

Thank you for sharing your experience and I'm sorry to hear about your girls. I love the Australorps, their look, their personality, everything about them - except their seemingly small vents.
I appreciate hearing what worked for you for treatment. I feel like we didn't even have a chance to really help her it all happened so very fast. I still don't understand it as she was laying perfectly every day - until she didn't. Her eggs were getting a little larger so I'm thinking she must have been working on a big one that just got stuck. We did not necropsy her but in hindsight I wish I would have to know for sure.