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linz44
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- Apr 12, 2015
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When I cleaned her before I'm pretty sure there was a hole under it. This was not long ago. I wonder if when I cleaned the poop off her his time if I made that hole reopen
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Thank you! I see what you are saying. There was a clump of poop on her but which was very hard and when it came off (didn't pull it off) the water soak made it fall off in one piece like a cap, it looked like bowl shaped poop cap with a yellow spot on the inside. I wonder if the poop cap was keeping the flies off it somehow or something. I just dug the poop cap out of the garbage and there is nothing on it but poop. I doused her bum in antiboiotc ointment and it's definitely needing more. Should I keep cleaning it and keep oimment on it and leave it at that? If she's probably going to die regardless of what I do I'm wondering if I should keep the tampering to a minimum. She does NOT like to be handled and she makes it well known! She's my least friendly chicken and isn't above beating you in the face with her wings and using your face as a launch ramp, making it difficult to help her. I was able to hold her yesterday pretty easily but today could be a different story and obviously I don't want to make things worse with a hole back there leaking her insides. Did you see the second picture I post? it's good and close.It will help if we can see a better photo but if that hole is what I think it is, she may not have many options, particularly if it has been caused by her internal laying....which will be the case if there is yellow egg material coming out of it. The pink thing with veins that you are describing is the outside of her gut and should not be exposed to the air. If it dries out and cracks she will die.
It may not have been caused by fly strike but that is the most obvious cause of a hole there as the flies lay their eggs in the poop soiled feathers below the vent and the maggots eat into the flesh. I am amazed that there are no maggots now....I hope she is not full of them as that can happen....no sign on the outside, but they can be inside eating her alive. I wonder if what you think is an egg shell may actually be her pelvic bones, but it is possible that she internally laid a complete egg with shell rather than just a yolk.
You need to keep her in a very clean environment away from flies and keep that hole and pink tissue really clean and moist. I am waiting for the person in the other post that I linked, to get back to us with an update on her hen and hopefully what she found beneficial.
It might be useful if someone else weighed in, to offer a second opinion.... I appreciate that it just looks like a wound, but this is a wound that is not just a flesh wound but a hole into the abdominal cavity. It would appear that the bird is laying internally (yolk is seeping out) which in itself is usually a terminal illness without the added complication of the abdominal cavity being breached and intestine exposed.....