EMERGENCY! HELP! Chicken with bloody vent.

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I believe that is what my mother gave me to give her. It was hard to tell in the dark and I asked her and she said that is what it was. She has stopped pushing but she hasn't passed any blockage and now she is a bit lethargic, and she keeps sitting down.

 

[azygous]

Have you given her water with sugar and electrolytes? This will give her strength to continue.

 

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I gave her electrolytes but she has only drank from it once. I'll add some sugar

 

[azygous]

Encourage her to drink. Dipping her beak once in the water will remind her she's thirsty. In her exhaustion, it's typical she will space out and forget to drink. Soon, without drinking, she will become too weak to drink and too weak to push out the obstruction.

 

[Mrs J]

How is your hen today? Has she passed anything?

 

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She has not passed anything. She is exactly as she was yesterday. I am thanking God that she survived the night. She is very hungry, and she is still straining but I am scared to give her any food. There are strange fluids dripping out of her vent, my mother thinks they seem like egg whites but I think it is because she hasn't eaten. If there is a broken egg in her, do we give her antibiotics?

 

[casportpony]

Now that your mother is home, can you get a picture?

 

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Possibly. She wants to do a little more work on it at the moment so it may take me a little while. Please bear with me.

 

[casportpony]

You're asking lots of questions that can't really be answered without us seeing pictures of the problem.

Unless you've seen yolk dripping from the vent, the clear stuff is unlikely to be egg white, cause where there is egg white, there is yolk.

Have you or your mother stuck a finger in her vent to check for an egg?

 

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Yes both of us. She said that she didn't feel an egg. But she didn't lay her egg yesterday.