I noticed my hen has a prolapsed vent this morning and it wasn't there yesterday. This came off when soaking. Lash egg??

[mini_farm_mama]

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[Sally PB]

Yes, that looks like lash material.

 

[mini_farm_mama]

Yes, that looks like lash material.

How do I treat this? I don't have a vet that treats poultry in my area so I'll have to do it all from home.

 

[Sally PB]

Search for lash egg and salpingitis (the name of the illness) here on BYC.

One of my hens, Pip, had a lash egg last February. This is my thread about how I treated her. So far, no recurrence.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/soft-egg-shell-stuck-in-vent.1611362/

 

[mini_farm_mama]

Search for lash egg and salpingitis (the name of the illness) here on BYC.

One of my hens, Pip, had a lash egg last February. This is my thread about how I treated her. So far, no recurrence.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/soft-egg-shell-stuck-in-vent.1611362/

Thank you thank you thank you! I don't want to lose her.

 

[mini_farm_mama]

Search for lash egg and salpingitis (the name of the illness) here on BYC.

One of my hens, Pip, had a lash egg last February. This is my thread about how I treated her. So far, no recurrence.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/soft-egg-shell-stuck-in-vent.1611362/

Can I ask how you gave the amoxicillin? I have fish amoxicillin in a capsule but I'm not sure how much to dose her with. She's still eating and drinking and acting completely normal. The only reason I noticed anything was wrong was because she had a very poopy butt. While I was cleaning it I noticed the prolapse and after I dumped the water out was when I noticed the material in question. Also, where did you purchase the calcium from?

 

[Sally PB]

To give a chicken a pill, you can just pop it into their beak. If you pull down -- gently -- on the wattles, they will open their beak. Then pop the pill in. They can swallow a large calcium pill.

Re: the calcium. Calcium citrate, just the same as what you get at the grocery store or drug store to take yourself.

Start her on amoxicillin 250mg twice a day twelve hours apart. Do the full ten days. Caught early, these infections have a chance of resolving, but understand that they are notoriously difficult to treat.

This is from my thread mentioned above.

If you have trouble catching your chicken, try dosing her at dusk and again at dawn while she's on the roost. When I have to do this, I use a headlamp and go in when it's dark-ish. My headlamp has a red light, and chickens don't see in the dark or the color red the way we do.

I want to mention that Pip has not laid an egg in months. I don't care if she doesn't lay again. Right now she and 5 other hens are molting, so she and they are not laying.

 

[mini_farm_mama]

To give a chicken a pill, you can just pop it into their beak. If you pull down -- gently -- on the wattles, they will open their beak. Then pop the pill in. They can swallow a large calcium pill.

Re: the calcium. Calcium citrate, just the same as what you get at the grocery store or drug store to take yourself.

This is from my thread mentioned above.

If you have trouble catching your chicken, try dosing her at dusk and again at dawn while she's on the roost. When I have to do this, I use a headlamp and go in when it's dark-ish. My headlamp has a red light, and chickens don't see in the dark or the color red the way we do.

I want to mention that Pip has not laid an egg in months. I don't care if she doesn't lay again. Right now she and 5 other hens are molting, so she and they are not laying.

She's inside in a kennel right now because she's also prolapsed. Poor girl. I was worried about her choking on the pill lol luckily I still have some on hand because I just read the FDA banned the sale of fish antibiotics without a prescription. Thank you so much for your help!

 

[Sally PB]

the FDA banned the sale of fish antibiotics without a prescription.

Yeah, I ordered a bottle of Amoxicillin before that happened to have on "just in case." So glad I did.

You're welcome. If you have any more questions about anything to do with chickens, don't hesitate to post them. The knowledge pool here is wide and deep about all things chicken.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

How are you treating the prolapsed tissue? I lost a hen to prolapse a couple of years ago because I didn't catch it in time.