Egg bound/prolapse?!

Jun 5, 2022
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I have a chicken that is either prolapsed or egg bound. She stopped laying for awhile and now it’s like this maybe once a week. She does really good for a bit and then we go through this again. I’m not totally sure why it keeps happening.. she will have clearish white mucus string hanging, puffed up, not really walking, belly super red, missing feathers (I believe her and another hen possibly picked them), won’t really eat and drink. In the beginning, she still ate and drank and it would fall off on its own. Now, it’s practically wiping her out. We always do a soak and she’s good.
Today, she came out of the coop rough. I’ve soaked her twice and got a big chunk out of her. I’ve got her in a crate with electrolyte water, she will eat sometimes but not really drink. She’s using the bathroom but it’s really white liquid (like what she had coming out of her but not string form)

We offer calcium 24/7 as well. After the 2nd soak and a big chunk came out, she wagged her tail and started eating. Now she’s back to just laying there, eating slightly, but still pretty sluggish. Below is a picture of her puffed up and her poop.
I’m not sure what else to do besides the soaks and helping her pass it.
 

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I have a chicken that is either prolapsed or egg bound. She stopped laying for awhile and now it’s like this maybe once a week. She does really good for a bit and then we go through this again. I’m not totally sure why it keeps happening.. she will have clearish white mucus string hanging, puffed up, not really walking, belly super red, missing feathers (I believe her and another hen possibly picked them), won’t really eat and drink. In the beginning, she still ate and drank and it would fall off on its own. Now, it’s practically wiping her out. We always do a soak and she’s good.
Today, she came out of the coop rough. I’ve soaked her twice and got a big chunk out of her. I’ve got her in a crate with electrolyte water, she will eat sometimes but not really drink. She’s using the bathroom but it’s really white liquid (like what she had coming out of her but not string form)

We offer calcium 24/7 as well. After the 2nd soak and a big chunk came out, she wagged her tail and started eating. Now she’s back to just laying there, eating slightly, but still pretty sluggish. Below is a picture of her puffed up and her poop.
I’m not sure what else to do besides the soaks and helping her pass it.
Can you get a picture over her back end? There's a difference between prolapse, & Egg Binding.
 
Small white worms sounds like maggots, which could be flystrike, a deadly condition where flies lay eggs on a wound or around the vent when it is soiled. Can you part her feathers and get a clear shot of her vent? Look for shiny maggots moving about. If you see any, get her into a shallow pan of warm soapy water to wash them all off. Use a magnifier if necessary and pick off each one. If she has flystrike, then a soak should be repeated several times as maggots will continue to hatch out for a day or so. They can enter her body and kill her. Let us know what you find and we can see the new picture.
 

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