Hen With Prolapsed Vent Needs to Lay Egg

[Arya28]

So I just noticed a couple hours ago that my silkie hen has a prolapsed vent. She has been laying eggs regularly prior to this and acting healthy.

So we just gave her a bath, trimmed the hair around her vent, and cleaned it before trying to put her vent back in. However, she hasn’t yet laid an egg today, and it is right on the inside of her vent. We noticed this when trying to put it back in.

So what should we do? Keep trying to put it back in, wait for her to lay her egg, or what? Will this make her egg bound? Any help will be appreciated!

 

[Rickba]

You need to get that egg out then get the vent back in before it dries out.

 

[Arya28]

You need to get that egg out then get the vent back in before it dries out.

So does that mean try and pull the egg out? Or just see if she does it on her own?

 

[Rickba]

Pull it out. Use a syringe without the needle and veg'y or olive oil to lube the egg.

 

[AZchickens17]

I agree with Rickba. Try and lubricate the egg with some oil (preferably coconut or olive) and use a syringe to insert it into her vent. Sorry this happened

 

[Rickba]

Here's my little Silkie hen IttyBits, and her first chick just hatched on 4 Oct.

 

[Arya28]

I’m really sorry about this but I need to post a picture and it’s really gross looking. If you don’t want to look, please avert your eyes now.

If you do and can try to help it would be appreciated!

There are two “tubes”. A red one and a black one. Which one does the egg need to be pulled from??

 

[Arya28]

Here's my little Silkie hen IttyBits, and her first chick just hatched on 4 Oct.
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She looks just like mine!! I wasn’t sure if her gender for the longest time until she laid an egg. Cute chick too!

 

[Rickba]

That does not look good. That's got to be painful. The red is the oviduct, I'm sot sure what the black thing is. I've never seen it before.

 

[Arya28]

That does not look good. That's got to be painful. The red is the oviduct, I'm sot sure what the black thing is. I've never seen it before.

I know I feel so bad for her! This little chicken has been through so much. Because her face isn’t as fluffy (she looks exactly like yours) everyone thought she was a boy so she was in the rooster flock with 16 boys for a while. We got we out, and she was doing great with one other rooster, laying every day. Then this happens.

So we didn’t have olive oil so we used aloe gel from our plant. We didn’t pull the egg all the way or because we don’t know which tube to pull it out and don’t want to hurt her! We kind of lubed her up so we are going to wait a few mins and see if she can do it on her own...