Is it possible for a hen to have a fissure in her vent? Update - now has stinky poop.

[Sparklewina]

I noticed my favorite hen, a RIR, acting every so slightly strange. She didn't fuss when I picked her up, she has been staying away from my new rooster who wants to mate all the time. When I looked at her vent and compared it to my other standard sized chickens she definitely has a little herniation that appears to be emerging from the upper portion of the inside of her vent between some torn tissue.

I am treating it as a prolapse. Warm soak, preperation H, isolating her from the rest. She seemed immediately relieved when I put that preperation H on but I am worried about the apparent tear in her tissue.

Could his be caused by rough or frequent mating? This hen is older (exact age unknown). What does a rooster penis look like that it could tear the vent of a chicken? Could something else have caused it?

 

[Judy]

Sounds like she definitely has some sort of small wound like a fissure or tear, or a prolapse, or both. A rooster really doesn't have anything that would injure a hen, as I understand it. Chickens are very likely to peck at any wound or anything that looks like blood, so this is the more likely cause, perhaps starting with a small prolapse that got pecked. Whatever the cause, if there is any redness there, you will need to separate her until it's resolved, or they will continue to peck and keep making it worse.

 

[ValleyPoultryFarms]

It's a prolapse. Just do what you're doing

 

[Sparklewina]

So this morning I noticed her first poop of the day was stinky enough to make her crate smell. The last time I had a chicken with bad smelling poop I had just brought her home and she was in quarentine so I gave her Ornacin which solved the problem. My RIR is a much bigger chicken though, not sure if it will be potent enough for a larger bird. Advice? How will this effect her prolapse?

 

[ejctm]

First poop of the day always stinks to high heaven! Normal that

 

[Sparklewina]

Ok thanks for that I won't be too alarmed. I tried to get a whiff of her subsequent poops and they were much better.