Emergency! PLEASE HELP!! Prolapsed Vent? Gleet?

[MaggieRose2001]

I’m having a terrible month - owned chickens for a year and never had any problems. We just bought a home a month ago and now all my chickens are getting sick and having problems.

I just found my polished hunched and not looking well this morning. Checked her over and found a prolapsed vent. I googled what to do, but after giving her an Epsom salt bath for 30min, I tried cleaning the vent before pushing it back in - THE POOP WON’T COME OFF. It has dried and hardened into the intensities and when I tried cleaning it, the tissue started bleeding. I don’t want to push it back in with poop on it - what do I do? I was planning on leaving it out and soaking her for 20 - 30 min again in a hour and just doing that all day until it finally loosens. Maybe next time adding soap?

Could this be vent gleet - I stumbled upon that when searching prolaspes. My perfectly healthy flock has dealt with respiratory issues and now this - all in one month of moving in. Isn’t gleet bacterial?

Your thoughts and help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[MysteryChicken]

@azygous

 

[Kiki]

So sorry you are having to learn the hard way about adding birds to an existing flock.
Sounds like the person you bought your second group of birds also gave you a respiratory disease.

This isn't helpful but if this were my bird I would just go ahead and end it suffering.
Prolapse is not something that is easily fixable and it takes a lot of time.
Can take weeks.... And it happened for a reason to begin with so it's likely to happen again.

Don't take this the wrong way... Not trying to be ugly I'm just telling you how it is.


What exactly have you been feeding this particular bird?

 

[MaggieRose2001]

I know this post didn't get many responses. But just in case someone stumbles upon it in search of help for the same problem - I wanted to give an update. My chickens chances of survival looked mighty dim - but I didn't give up on her. I figured as long as she was breathing and not in pain - she deserved a chance.

SHE MADE IT - SHE LIVED!!! IT HAS NOW BEEN 6 WEEKS AND SHE NOT ONLY FULLY RECOVERED BUT SHE HAS LAID ALMOST EVERY DAY FOR THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS WITH NO PROBLEM! PRAISE GOD!!!

I soaked her in epsom salts for the first few days - the part that was hanging out of her vent turned grayish and I thought - oh no, I cooked it even though I only used warm water. So I stopped giving her baths. For the first few days I kept pushing everything back inside the vent (which I wasn't sure if I should since they were covered in this pasty white substance that would not wash off). After a couple days everything stayed in except for a hard lump on the end (the part that turned gray). She was pooping but it was really watery - more like diahrrea. I tried pushing the hard part in the next few days but it wouldn't stay in - so I just left it. After about 10 days (maybe 2 wks) - I woke up and checked her vent and everything looked normal. The hard end must have just fallen off. I kept her in the house for another week to just make sure she had plenty of time to heal and also to keep her from laying right away.

Oh ya - I kept her in a puppy play pen (which is what I use for brooders) in my house and I covered it with towels to keep her in the dark for those first couple weeks - that way she wouldn't lay. I did let her out to go on walk abouts around my house for a little bit every day - couldn't bare to keep her locked up in the dark all the time.

As for food - I didn't feed her anything except nutridrench in water and very small amount ( couple tablespoons) of kefir for the first few days. I tried to limit her pooping to let everything heal. Then I gradually added more and more kefir for the first week. Then I gave her a little bid of her normal food - slowly increasing over the second week.

Anyway - I am so glad I didn't listen to KIKI. Some people might see chickens as a numbers and sense commodity- but I see them as family. I own 40 chickens and know them all by name, know each ones individual egg that they lay and I will never give up on them. They are our responsibility - we chose that responsibility when we brought them onto our property and I believe we should always do our very best for our livestock and learn from our mistakes along the way.

Hope this helps someone. Good Luck.

 

[Kiki]

I know this post didn't get many responses. But just in case someone stumbles upon it in search of help for the same problem - I wanted to give an update. My chickens chances of survival looked mighty dim - but I didn't give up on her. I figured as long as she was breathing and not in pain - she deserved a chance.

SHE MADE IT - SHE LIVED!!! IT HAS NOW BEEN 6 WEEKS AND SHE NOT ONLY FULLY RECOVERED BUT SHE HAS LAID ALMOST EVERY DAY FOR THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS WITH NO PROBLEM! PRAISE GOD!!!

I soaked her in epsom salts for the first few days - the part that was hanging out of her vent turned grayish and I thought - oh no, I cooked it even though I only used warm water. So I stopped giving her baths. For the first few days I kept pushing everything back inside the vent (which I wasn't sure if I should since they were covered in this pasty white substance that would not wash off). After a couple days everything stayed in except for a hard lump on the end (the part that turned gray). She was pooping but it was really watery - more like diahrrea. I tried pushing the hard part in the next few days but it wouldn't stay in - so I just left it. After about 10 days (maybe 2 wks) - I woke up and checked her vent and everything looked normal. The hard end must have just fallen off. I kept her in the house for another week to just make sure she had plenty of time to heal and also to keep her from laying right away.

Oh ya - I kept her in a puppy play pen (which is what I use for brooders) in my house and I covered it with towels to keep her in the dark for those first couple weeks - that way she wouldn't lay. I did let her out to go on walk abouts around my house for a little bit every day - couldn't bare to keep her locked up in the dark all the time.

As for food - I didn't feed her anything except nutridrench in water and very small amount ( couple tablespoons) of kefir for the first few days. I tried to limit her pooping to let everything heal. Then I gradually added more and more kefir for the first week. Then I gave her a little bid of her normal food - slowly increasing over the second week.

Anyway - I am so glad I didn't listen to KIKI. Some people might see chickens as a numbers and sense commodity- but I see them as family. I own 40 chickens and know them all by name, know each ones individual egg that they lay and I will never give up on them. They are our responsibility - we chose that responsibility when we brought them onto our property and I believe we should always do our very best for our livestock and learn from our mistakes along the way.

Hope this helps someone. Good Luck.

I'm glad you were able to get the prolapse back in. Hopefully it doesn't happen to this bird again.

How's the respiratory issues?
Keeping your flock stress free and feeding them a balanced diet will do wonders for keeping the illness symptoms at bay.

You never did say how what you feed/fed.