HELP needed fast!! EMERGENCY!! Egg stuck half out pic

[nicokl502]

your so lucky you had a vet to go too where i live there are none i called every vet i could find and none of them take chickens i am glad you got some help i hope she will heal up and be ok !!!

 

[Hennypen]

First vet I've EVER heard of that works weekends.

And a bird vet at THAT? He's in Alpharetta, Ga. if anyone close needs a good chicken vet send me a pm.

Anyway, what he pulled out were the orange follicles as shown in this picture. I'm hoping that since that string is gone, the rest will be normal.

http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/explore/embryology/day05/ovary.html

 

[Hennypen]

Oh and the vet bill was only $101.

No antibiotics. It's a wait and see what the next eggs look like. He said to feel her abdomen daily to make sure it's not getting bigger, etc.. He mentioned having her spayed if this keeps happening.

please not my $200. hen.

I haven't gotten any replacement chicks from her yet. I'm wondering if this isn't the reason none of her eggs would hatch earlier in the year. They woukd get to day 18 and die.

 

[robin416]

I have read that a hen will shed an ovary spontaneously. Because the vet said follicles I'm wondering if this is what occurred.

 

[Colie <3]

Good thought Robin, I've read about the spontaneous shedding of an ovary as well. That sounds like a good possibility but I hope that's not the case since I seem to recall that most birds only have one ovary? Is that right?

Anyhow OP I hope you continue getting eggs from this girlie, at least enough to hatch out a good dozen chicks before she gives up on laying. I'm hoping she pulls thru for you nicely. I'm not sure if this would effect your ability to hatch her eggs in the past. I would be inclined to say this specifically wasn't the issue. If anything I'd think this would be related to her producing eggs that weren't complete and unable to be fertilized in the first place. Which hen was this? I'm glad your vet bill wasn't a killer, you're super lucky to have an affordable avian vet that also works weekends at your disposal!

 

[Hennypen]

I don't think the ovary came out based on what the vet said this morning. He called to check on her.

If you look at the picture here: http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/explore/embryology/day05/ovary.html

What I saw (should have taken a picture) was a diseased "mature oocyte". A soft shelled egg erupted out of this when I touched it. That's where the yolk came from in my original picture. Following that, were several orange (normal) follicles/not mature oocyte. They were all connected and each was about half the size of the previous one, 5 total and the smallest being abotu the size of a pea. And nothing past that. Based on the picture from the article, it looks like the ovary produces these follicles and I didn't see anything but the diseased oocyte and then smaller ones. nothing more. It does look like a chicken only has one ovary so lets hope THAT is ok. The vet seemed optimistic about more eggs this morning. He also said only the one looked diseased. The others were normal.

This is my lavender silkie hen I paid a lot of money for.

 

[Veggie4life55]

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Have you tried checking to see if there is an aviary around you or a raptor or wild bird rehab? Sometimes those vets work at normal offices to or they may know someone who can help you.