HELP! prolapse with egg inside? (pictures)

[SoCha]

I'm worried the mucous membrane has got twisted with it being pushed in and out again and you might have to put her down

If the membrane has gotten twisted can we still attempt surgery?

 

[Chicalina]

If the membrane has gotten twisted can we still attempt surgery?

I'm not a vet, but if it were my hen then if everything else I had tried had failed then I would try the surgery. You've got nothing to lose by that point. A 1 inch cut with a sterilised scalpel in a stretched area of the membrane with no blood vessels ideally. Wrap the pullet in a towel and have someone to help. Apply antibiotic ointment to all exposed tissue afterward before you push the prolapse back in.

This is just what I would do, because it would be desperate by that point. But please know I am not an expert and haven't done it before.

 

[Chicalina]

I just found this by @azygous which you might find more helpful than my attempts to help.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ng-from-vent-prolapse-oh-my-what-to-do.76124/

 

[SoCha]

I'm not a vet, but if it were my hen then if everything else I had tried had failed then I would try the surgery. You've got nothing to lose by that point. A 1 inch cut with a sterilised scalpel in a stretched area of the membrane with no blood vessels ideally. Wrap the pullet in a towel and have someone to help. Apply antibiotic ointment to all exposed tissue afterward before you push the prolapse back in.

This is just what I would do, because it would be desperate by that point. But please know I am not an expert and haven't done it before.

This is very useful, we have tried most things and nothing seems to work. Is there anything we can give her for pain?

 

[Chicalina]

I really hope one of the people I have tagged will jump in soon.

 

[SoCha]

I just found this by @azygous which you might find more helpful than my attempts to help.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ng-from-vent-prolapse-oh-my-what-to-do.76124/

I've read this, but to the contrary of our pullet, we can't see the egg from the vent. There seems to be tissue separating the two.

 

[SoCha]

I really hope one of the people I have tagged will jump in soon.

Yes it would be very helpful, we'll wait a bit for their answers.

 

[Chicalina]

you can give her half a baby aspirin for pain.

Keeping the tissue moist is essential. Do you have antibiotic cream?

 

[Chicalina]

The egg turns 180 degrees just before it reaches the vent, so that it is laid round side first, where it travels down the reproductive tract pointy side first until that final point, and it seems to me that that is where it went wrong for your hen. That would be my guess.

 

[Chicalina]

I am not sure the articles advice to give her calcium to increase contractions is a good idea at this point. Those contractions aren't going to get her anywhere.

Apart from a warm bath, can you moisten it all up with cream and sit her on a towel on a warm rubber 'hot water bottle' (do you have those in the states?). At least until you get more help and advice.