HELP! Egg stuck outside of my duck!

[casportpony]

In case you didn't know, that membrane over the egg is part of her reproductive tract (she has a prolapse). egg has to come out the clean her up any push the prolapse back in. If you can do that, she then needs to go into a warm, dark room and be fed very little. Might also want to give her some oral calcium.

-Kathy

 

[dboranch]

I will look for the opening but unfortunately my husband had to leave and will not be available to help me for maybe a hour or so. I don't think I can do this by myself so I will wait for him to help me. There is a spot on the membrane (you can see it in the picture) but I thought it was poop or something. Should I try and stretch it open over the egg? If the egg were to break, what should I do then? I am asking you this now so in case I run into problems, I will know what I should do then.

Kathy, THANKS SO MUCH for all your help!

 

[dboranch]

My help returned and we got started. First we soaked her in some warm water for a bit but when we went to examine her, we could feel that the egg was broken. We were unable to locate an opening in that spot (which was obviously part of her tract) so we carefully reinserted the egg back into her vent thinking that maybe it could realign and then we could find the opening for the egg to come out. However, we still can not figure out where to locate the opening. In addition, now that the egg is broken... what do I do now? I am getting very discouraged. Can you give me some more advise? I am standing by...

 

[casportpony]

My help returned and we got started. First we soaked her in some warm water for a bit but when we went to examine her, we could feel that the egg was broken. We were unable to locate an opening in that spot (which was obviously part of her tract) so we carefully reinserted the egg back into her vent thinking that maybe it could realign and then we could find the opening for the egg to come out. However, we still can not figure out where to locate the opening. In addition, now that the egg is broken... what do I do now? I am getting very discouraged. Can you give me some more advise? I am standing by...

Finding the opening is tricky... facing her butt, with her standing, try upper left.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@Amiga , @Miss Lydia , @TwoCrows , @WVduckchick , @Eggcessive , @RavynFallen , @speckledhen , @Wyorp Rock , @DwayneNLiz , do any of you have suggestions? Can you think of anyone else to tag?

I've only treated one with a prolapse this bad, and I got the egg out, then the next one had the egg break in her and I'm still dealing with the aftermath of that.

-Kathy

 

[speckledhen]

Ooh, that's a bad one. Hard to really give more advice than Kathy did. Is the membrane actually around the egg or am I seeing the end of the egg itself? We've used K-Y liquid to squirt inside and with a finger, slather it all around the egg and ease it out, but you have to be able to actually reach the egg itself to do that. Preparation H might shrink tissues some, but I'm not sure what else to tell you. Tricky.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I have never dealt with this. From reading others posts they say to flush her outside with saline water . you can make your own with 1/2 tsp. salt to qt. of water . after she is clean use a gloved finger and push th prolapse back up inside her and use prep.H in and around the prolapse. Put her in the dark in a hospital cage . No shavings or anything that would stick. Keep her warm . The heat helps with the shrinking . Give her a human tums . and pray. IF you can id the egg shell you can pull that out but since it is broken you will need to watch out for egg perindotis (spelling) egg infection. Hopefully she will pass the rest on her own. A broke egg inside is not good news.

 

[dboranch]

Kathy & Speckledhen,

After reading up on it a bit and reading of very 'iffy' outcomes, we have decided to put our duck down. There is a poultry processing facility not to far that is still open and said they can process her if we leave now. I wanted to let you know so that you won't keep racking your brains trying to help me. It is hard for me to eat my poultry but we have too many drakes per hen ratio and since she just started laying, they are a good age for processing. I really loved these ducks but I need to learn to not get attached to them since my original intent was as egg and meat birds... but it is so hard to not get attached!

Thanks again!
Jennie

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Hi Jennie

So sorry but it is probably for the best a prolapse of this magnitude would take a lot to fix, though everything you have been told is great, some other things I could recommend is keeping her in 80-85*, doing Epsom salt baths and steam baths



Ps @casportpony thank you

 

[Ravynscroft]

So sorry, Jennie...