Help What is this? On chickens rear. It showed up two days after a fox attack.

[Birdsong 82]

My jersey giant was attacked about two days ago. She has a very large open wound on her back that I’m trying to work with but seems to be eating and drinking. Today my daughter text me this picture. Wasn’t like that when I left this morning. Any idea about this?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

My jersey giant was attacked about two days ago. She has a very large open wound on her back that I’m trying to work with but seems to be eating and drinking. Today my daughter text me this picture. Wasn’t like that when I left this morning. Any idea about this?

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I’ve dealt with a prolapsed vent in the past but this doesn’t look like what I dealt with. This poor girl. She’s a sweetest chicken. And she has a huge open wound in her back but I’m hoping will begin to heal. And now this pops up.

It's a prolapse with poop stuck in it.
You may need to help dig out the poop, see if that helps, then proceed how you did when you dealt with prolapse in the past.

https://www.dvm360.com/view/avian-cloacal-prolapses-proceedings

 

[Birdsong 82]

A warm soak in Epsom salts and water for about 15 minutes at least once daily, and try to get any poop out of the opening. Apply honey, sugar, or hydrocortisone cream to help reduce swelling. Is she able to poop? There could be another egg on it’s way through the tract. You might try giving her a human calcium tablet with vitamin D3 to help muscle contractions in the reproductive tract. Prolapses can recur.

She wasn’t able to poop. and boy is she trying. And I must’ve very carefully and meticulously scraped so much poop out there. I was amazed. She was looking exhausted and starting to make some noise so I gave her a small break and a start back at it. But yeah maybe soaking would help. Thank you. Sometimes when we are frantic we forget common sense things

 

[Birdsong 82]

My goodness everyone I’m so sorry I kinda disappeared. I’ve had some health issues and then surgery. Everything is ok and once i finally fully heal I’ll be better than I’ve been in years. So yay

And even better… Marge made a miracle full recovery. I fell very ill and no one to handle her prolapse I was in ER crying worried about her. Got home and prolapse corrected itself! Unbelievable. Stayed in with no issue ever since and back healed with no issue.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

With this humongous wound in her back is she gonna be able to get through this OK? I can tell she’s not feeling well but for that gaping hole in her back I’m surprised how well she was doing. I’m at work my daughter just called me and told me that she laid an egg with no shell. I’m trying to get her to send me a picture.
The last prolapse I dealt with didn’t look so terrible and red

Do you have photos of the wound on her back?

So she was able to pass egg, did it have a membrane at all?

I can't say whether she can get through it all ok or not. Chickens can survive quite a lot.
It is a prolapse. Likely what you dealt with was from egg laying and you saw the tissue of the oviduct, this is cloacal with some intestine, but it's treated the same.

 

[Birdsong 82]

But my daughter said she’s making noises like she sounded pain and it’s breaking my heart. This poor girl is going through so much

 

[Birdsong 82]

Looks like a egg with just a very very thin shell. Which can happen for many small reasons or for no reason. So that doesn’t concern me as much. I’m having a really hard time getting a picture of the wound every time I take a picture it looks like there’s nothing there since she’s all black and they are still some bleeding with the wound. It’s reduced quite a bit but
and now my daughter just text messaged me to tell me she’s eating her egg

 

[Birdsong 82]

And thank you for that link. Once I’m off of work soon I’ll be able to look at it better but it looks more informative than the directions or information I have on it. And it’s been along time since I’ve dealt with it it

It's a prolapse with poop stuck in it.
You may need to help dig out the poop, see if that helps, then proceed how you did when you dealt with prolapse in the past.

https://www.dvm360.com/view/avian-cloacal-prolapses-proceedings

 

[Birdsong 82]

Just got home and it’s huge. My goodness I’ve never seen this!

 

[Eggcessive]

A warm soak in Epsom salts and water for about 15 minutes at least once daily, and try to get any poop out of the opening. Apply honey, sugar, or hydrocortisone cream to help reduce swelling. Is she able to poop? There could be another egg on it’s way through the tract. You might try giving her a human calcium tablet with vitamin D3 to help muscle contractions in the reproductive tract. Prolapses can recur.