BYC Café

[Shadrach]

This is the plan. Tomorrow I'm going to close off the brooder, cut and screw a piece of plywood over HC between the coop and the brooder and drape an old, heavy sleeping bag over the top and front and hope that will make it dark enough. I'll check using the brooder cam.
I'll go out before I get ready in the morning for work and get them off the roost with the run flood light so she has about an hour to eat her fill then put her in the dark brooder before I leave for work Tuesday through Thursday. I'll ask Nan to go into the coop and open the brooder sliding door and let her out when she gets here at noon so she can go out and eat and drink. That will give her about 6 hours of light to eat. I hope that's enough to suppress ovulation but also make sure she has enough to eat and drink for the day.

I think for now at least you have to keep her vagina lubricated past the point where the tissue damage is.
I think I am right in saying that the glands that normally supply lubricant to the egg are above the exit from the intestines at the base of the uterus where the shell is formed. This would mean lubrication quite a long way into the vagina so the egg is very well coated before it reaches the places in the vagina where there is scar tissue forming.
You may be able to discourage egg laying for a while by keeping her in the dark but I can't see it as being a long term solution, certainly not long enough for the damaged tissue to heal and the removal of the rest of the necrotic tissue.
Metacam will help in the short term with the inflamation and the pain, but it's quite powerful stuff and not something to be used for long periods of time.
I think you may have to resign yourself to puncturing each new egg as it appears and carrying out the procedure you've just done until everything is clean and healed.

 

[Shadrach]

Try again. Hopefully I'm on the right thread this time.
Good evening Cafe. I've brought the pot of Earl Grey tea I dumped on DL's Seneca thread over to the Cafe.
As I was saying......bright and dry here and likely to stay that way according to this lot of pro tree huggers.

 

[sourland]

Gently I bring my cup of tea to the Cafe'.

 

[aart]

We had a barn red mailbox. How could they not see it ?

Did they actually hit it physically with the plow blade......or was it just the plow wash?
Plow wash(snow coming off the plow bald) moves with much weight and velocity and can do a lot of damage. Have lost several mail boxes to plow wash, only one to an actual blade strike(I proved it and they replaced it)

How often will you do this electrolyte supplementation before the polar vortex arrives? Every day?

Nah, maybe once a week if the temps stay that low(<10°F 24/7) for that long.
Added the cold aspect to my article today.

 

[Mtn Margie]

No heat up here in the clouds either. I have had a couple of roos get frostbite but now I stick with the smaller combed breeds and everything has been fine.
I have never dewormed my chickens... or treated for lice...
We don't even have fleas or very many ticks either. We also have a lot of wormwood plants and I have seen the horses, sheep, and chickens eat the plants in late summer right at bloom and I am thinking they know something more than I do.

 

[aart]

Heard from the 'breeder' today....finally.
Was waiting on pricing to commit and it was inline with what I was willing to pay.
$10 per chick for Black Ameraucana and BCM.
Still might be some 'not so sure' on the AM's making the 'early bird pricing' pick up timeline.
Gave me a little kick of excitement.

 

[Shadrach]

Gently I bring my cup of tea to the Cafe'.

You're in the clear Mr sourland. You can blame it all on me.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Heard from the 'breeder' today....finally.
Was waiting on pricing to commit and it was inline with what I was willing to pay.
$10 per chick for Black Ameraucana and BCM.
Still might be some 'not so sure' on the AM's making the 'early bird pricing' pick up timeline.
Gave me a little kick of excitement.

Great news! Do you have a pickup date?

 

[sourland]

You're in the clear Mr sourland. You can blame it all on me.

What's to blame ? Just a couple of old guys up to their normal. Well, normal for me anyway.

 

[DobieLover]

I think for now at least you have to keep her vagina lubricated past the point where the tissue damage is.
I think I am right in saying that the glands that normally supply lubricant to the egg are above the exit from the intestines at the base of the uterus where the shell is formed. This would mean lubrication quite a long way into the vagina so the egg is very well coated before it reaches the places in the vagina where there is scar tissue forming.
You may be able to discourage egg laying for a while by keeping her in the dark but I can't see it as being a long term solution, certainly not long enough for the damaged tissue to heal and the removal of the rest of the necrotic tissue.
Metacam will help in the short term with the inflamation and the pain, but it's quite powerful stuff and not something to be used for long periods of time.
I think you may have to resign yourself to puncturing each new egg as it appears and carrying out the procedure you've just done until everything is clean and healed.

The light deprivation bay is to buy her vent some healing time.
How would I go about lubricating her?
I'll call my vet tomorrow and explain the situation and see if they'll give me some metacam for her. Even a script for the Estriol cream.
I really don't want to have continually remove her eggs from her. I do have to work three a week. I doubt her reproductive system will take into account my schedule.
What are your thoughts on the Estriol cream to stimulate elasticity and probably lubrication in her vent?