Blockage

[birdgirl408]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cindy in PA


After a hen has a prolapse it is best if you get her out of lay so she can heal. You can do this by feeding her lower protein (scratch & greens) & keeping her in more hours of darkness. I know this doesn't help with your question, but chances are if she keeps laying eggs she continue with the same problem.
I have given her olive oil now for 3 days, today being the 3rd. She hasn't laid for two and a half days completely. She has had Preparation H for the past 2 days also. I am also giving her Tums as recommended by another member. She has had veggies and scratch. I have just been out to check her and there, again, is a tiny prolapse, so more Prep H administered (3rd day). I know I am probably asking 'how long is a piece of string?' but will anyway - how long is this likely to go on for? I feel I am doing all the right things, please do correct me if I am making any mistakes or missing out on something. I am getting a little bit desperate now as I have had so many problems with these, my very first chickens.

 

[hennible]

Still no egg, hmmm, @casportpony has some extra tricks up her sleeve... Maybe she could help...

 

[casportpony]

Study these pictures, then get a glove, some KY Jelly and gently check for an egg.










-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

If there is an egg

• Go get calcium gluconate from the cattle section of Tractor Supply.
• Set your water heater to high, wait for it to finish heating.
• Fill your bathroom with steam (all extraction fans off).
• Give calcium gluconate at 0.2ml per pound orally.
• Place hen in warm, dark, steam filled bathroom and see if she will pass the egg.
• Remember to shut toilet if hen is loose.

-Kathy

 

[birdgirl408]

Thanks everso for those diagrams casportpony, they are the best diagrams I have come across. But I have to say, my thread started off with the question 'is there an egg there not coming out and other eggs passing it, to which a member said this was unlikely.

Now I am trying to STOP her from laying as she keeps prolapsing. I have been using Preparation H and pushing the prolapse back, but it seems to come out on odd days whether she lays or not. It is only a small prolapse and sometimes when I check her it is there, I go and get the glove and prep H and come back and it has gone in on its own!!

My chickens came from a very poorly beginning and I have been nursing them back to good health for the whole 7 months that I've had them. I have had numerous visits to the vet and originally had to have two put to sleep now leaving me with just two.

Thank you also hennible, but getting eggs now is not the problem, as I'm trying to stop her from laying. Perhaps I should have started another thread headed up 'prolapse' ??

 

[hennible]

That's a good idea... Your best bet is a forced moult...

 

[casportpony]

If there is a stuck egg, no others will pass, they'll just pile up on the one and possibly form a huge, nasty, infected mass that she will not be able to pass.

-Kathy

 

[birdgirl408]

There is no blockage.

 

[casportpony]

Then she should be fine if you can get her prolapse healed. Are you sure she doesn't have a stuck soft-shelled egg?

-Kathy

 

[birdgirl408]

No don't think so. Just the prolapse, which hasn't happened now for two days. She has laid both yesterday and today, so keeping fingers crossed now.