Guinea prolapse!

[ColbyNTX]

I just went out to gather eggs and found one of my free range guineas dead. I turned it over to see if I could see signs of trauma. No signs of an animal attack but it had about 1 foot of gut hanging out of its vent. Does anybody know what could have caused this? It was pretty young, hatched last August.

 

[ColbyNTX]

Nobody!!!!

 

[MuranoFarms]

I can't help...sorry. There was a post about this same thing maybe about 2 months ago. I think its head was all slimy too. They thought a snake had killed it but then couldn't swallow it. Maybe something like that happened? I'm sorry about your guinea

 

[ColbyNTX]

That could be the case. We have chicken snakes (Texas Rat Snake) here that average 4-6 feet. It rained that day so the bird was soaked so I couldn't tell if it was slimy. The one thing I could see clearly see was no puncture wounds because of the wet feathers.