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Soak her in warm epson salts water, that will relax her and the egg can pass. May take 45 min be patient! the prolapse should repair on it on but soaking 10 min or so each hour. will help.Hey, I have a 2 year old ex battery hen who is having some trouble at the moment. Yesterday I noticed a slight prolapse and some blood around her vent (also dripping white urates) this is the same thing that happened to another of my hens a year ago. I cleaned her vent yesterday and applied some sudocrem. She was still running around happy and no problems so just kept an eye on her. This morning I came down to the run and she was stood in the penguine stance position and when I looked, she was prolapsed and the egg was stuck in the prolapse. She was in so much pain and distress. I brought her in and put her in some warm water and 15 mins later I was able to manually express the egg out. The prolapse has gone back in but she is still uncomfortable by the looks of it, she shudders everytime she poos! I have cleaned her vent and gave her some anti-inflammatories to help with the pain and inflammation. Shes eating and drinking well but shes currently indoors drying off, she is sleeping a bit but had a bit of an ordeal this morning. My local vets are not seeing poultry at the moment due to avian flu so I was wondering if there is anything else I can do to help speed up the recovery of her vent? I believe the egg got stuck because her vent is so swollen. I can keep her on anti inflammatories to help but worried about tomorrow morning when another egg comes. Just not sure what to do at the moment x