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- Dec 27, 2020
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I have a three year old Old English Bantam hen - the photo of her I've attached is for reference but not from today - who started laying again last week after a several month pause. Her last egg was the day before yesterday and was intact but had a rough shell. Yesterday she went into her nestbox to lay but emerged a while later without having done so. I noticed her behind had a small yellowish mess. She was definitely not feeling her best, a bit fluffed and off her feed last night, but drank lots of Nutri-drench dosed water. As it was sunset I let her go in with the others, and hoped she might get the egg out overnight, as she sometimes does. She has never had any laying problems before, mind, just she sometimes lays late in the day.
This morning she had a large mess stuck to her butt feathers: yellowish, white, and some normal chicken crap, and also this thing, above the mess - see two attached photos. It's encrusted with... tissue? crap? around the edges. And underneath it looks matte black in color, although if I shine a bright light at it, perhaps it is filled with a dark liquid, like a blood blister? The feel is quite like a soft-shelled egg, though much smaller. It is not particularly warm to the touch.
The photos I see of prolapses seem to be shiny pink and swollen? I can find no hole/outlet in the extruded part. I have not tried to move the thing in, out, or around much, lest in my ignorance I make things worse.
I cleaned it up quite a bit with warm water and Vetericyn, putting light pressure on it while doing so, so she wouldn't keep trying to push it out. I peeled a little bit of the stuff coating it off, revealing nothing much. She was panting a lot as I tended to her, and I am giving her a break as I write this.
I put her in a dark box in the house but she escaped it, took a large poop on the floor, green and white, that seemed to be mixed with liquid that was something of an egg white consistency, and is now hunting around for food. (I am not giving her food just now but she has water.) The poop seemed to come out between the black thing and the bottom edge of her vent. She is active, tail held erect, and her comb is bright red but she is unsurprisingly walking a bit gingerly and is fluffed up a bit.
As far as vets go, mine retired and to my knowledge there are no longer any in the area who know anything about chickens. Or ducks. I very recently had an ailing duck and after lots of calls got a large animal farm vet to agree to do an x-ray out of the kindness of his heart (she had tumors.) So I am on my own.
Any help you all can provide is much appreciated, thank you.
This morning she had a large mess stuck to her butt feathers: yellowish, white, and some normal chicken crap, and also this thing, above the mess - see two attached photos. It's encrusted with... tissue? crap? around the edges. And underneath it looks matte black in color, although if I shine a bright light at it, perhaps it is filled with a dark liquid, like a blood blister? The feel is quite like a soft-shelled egg, though much smaller. It is not particularly warm to the touch.
The photos I see of prolapses seem to be shiny pink and swollen? I can find no hole/outlet in the extruded part. I have not tried to move the thing in, out, or around much, lest in my ignorance I make things worse.
I cleaned it up quite a bit with warm water and Vetericyn, putting light pressure on it while doing so, so she wouldn't keep trying to push it out. I peeled a little bit of the stuff coating it off, revealing nothing much. She was panting a lot as I tended to her, and I am giving her a break as I write this.
I put her in a dark box in the house but she escaped it, took a large poop on the floor, green and white, that seemed to be mixed with liquid that was something of an egg white consistency, and is now hunting around for food. (I am not giving her food just now but she has water.) The poop seemed to come out between the black thing and the bottom edge of her vent. She is active, tail held erect, and her comb is bright red but she is unsurprisingly walking a bit gingerly and is fluffed up a bit.
As far as vets go, mine retired and to my knowledge there are no longer any in the area who know anything about chickens. Or ducks. I very recently had an ailing duck and after lots of calls got a large animal farm vet to agree to do an x-ray out of the kindness of his heart (she had tumors.) So I am on my own.
Any help you all can provide is much appreciated, thank you.