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Hi all,
I come back to you today with a weird situation I'm hoping someone might be able to help me with.
I have a Brahma Bantam (~1 year old) who has always had issues laying eggs. About 80% of the time they're bloody. She passes them, and they are never abnormally large or soft shelled, so I figured she was just getting used to laying (she took a long time to lay, only starting about 2 months ago).
Today, however, I went out to check on her, and she was clearly in distress. She was standing still, straining to push something out, and her vent was quite bloody. Every time she strained I could see her almost prolapsing (though at rest everything was inside). Her vent was also making, for lack of a better term, farting sounds.
I brought her inside, ran her vent under some water, applied some salve in/around her vent, and covered her hospital cage with towels to simulate night. I gave her water, but no food (her crop was full).
Any ideas what this could be? If it does prolapse, is there much I can do besides pushing everything back in? I'll try to take a photo after work.
Quick stats:
Bedding - dirt/sanicare
Not free-range, but outside in a large run/coop
Food - New country organics layer feed / scratch
She is the lowest hen in the pecking order, and is dealing with a LOT of feather loss. No clue why. I brought her to the vet about a month ago for diarrhea and the feather loss, and we could not find anything majorly wrong with her. She was on antibiotics for about two weeks just in case (as per the vets recommendation).
Thanks!
I come back to you today with a weird situation I'm hoping someone might be able to help me with.
I have a Brahma Bantam (~1 year old) who has always had issues laying eggs. About 80% of the time they're bloody. She passes them, and they are never abnormally large or soft shelled, so I figured she was just getting used to laying (she took a long time to lay, only starting about 2 months ago).
Today, however, I went out to check on her, and she was clearly in distress. She was standing still, straining to push something out, and her vent was quite bloody. Every time she strained I could see her almost prolapsing (though at rest everything was inside). Her vent was also making, for lack of a better term, farting sounds.
I brought her inside, ran her vent under some water, applied some salve in/around her vent, and covered her hospital cage with towels to simulate night. I gave her water, but no food (her crop was full).
Any ideas what this could be? If it does prolapse, is there much I can do besides pushing everything back in? I'll try to take a photo after work.
Quick stats:
Bedding - dirt/sanicare
Not free-range, but outside in a large run/coop
Food - New country organics layer feed / scratch
She is the lowest hen in the pecking order, and is dealing with a LOT of feather loss. No clue why. I brought her to the vet about a month ago for diarrhea and the feather loss, and we could not find anything majorly wrong with her. She was on antibiotics for about two weeks just in case (as per the vets recommendation).
Thanks!