IS THIS A PROLAPSED VENT?

[MaeM]

My hen's vent is currently looking like this, it closes and opens up like she's having contractions.

I can't feel any egg but she uses to lay soft-shelled eggs. She is acting lethargic.

I already gave her a warm bath with salts, but what else can I do? Is this a prolapsed vent?

 

[Tookie]

It does look like a prolapsed vent.
She may have an egg that she's having trouble passing. Get some calcium citrate +D3 and give her one tablet once a day. Make sure to keep the exposed tissue moist with honey or some type of ointment.
Keep giving her the baths.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

My hen's vent is currently looking like this, it closes and opens up like she's having contractions.

I can't feel any egg but she uses to lay soft-shelled eggs. She is acting lethargic.

I already gave her a warm bath with salts, but what else can I do? Is this a prolapsed vent?

If she's lethargic, then I would not soak her anymore, it may push her over the edge.

If she has trouble with soft shelled eggs, then likely this is her problem now.
Get some Calcium Citrate with D3 and pop 1 tablet into her now, then again each day for at least a week.

Work on hydration, encourage her to drink if she will.

You can place her on a heating pad on low or in a steamed up bathroom.

She's not prolapsed, but she's working on expelling something - the assumption is a soft shelled egg - these are extremely hard to pass.

What do you feed? Do you provide oyster shell?

 

[MaeM]

Update: I was hoping that she would lay the egg during the night but she didn't. She pooped though.

Her vent looks red and inflamed. I will give her more baths now as they seem to help with that.

 

[MaeM]

If she's lethargic, then I would not soak her anymore, it may push her over the edge.

If she has trouble with soft shelled eggs, then likely this is her problem now.
Get some Calcium Citrate with D3 and pop 1 tablet into her now, then again each day for at least a week.

Work on hydration, encourage her to drink if she will.

You can place her on a heating pad on low or in a steamed up bathroom.

She's not prolapsed, but she's working on expelling something - the assumption is a soft shelled egg - these are extremely hard to pass.

What do you feed? Do you provide oyster shell?

If she's lethargic, then I would not soak her anymore, it may push her over the edge.

If she has trouble with soft shelled eggs, then likely this is her problem now.
Get some Calcium Citrate with D3 and pop 1 tablet into her now, then again each day for at least a week.

Work on hydration, encourage her to drink if she will.

You can place her on a heating pad on low or in a steamed up bathroom.

She's not prolapsed, but she's working on expelling something - the assumption is a soft shelled egg - these are extremely hard to pass.

What do you feed? Do you provide oyster shell?

She drinks and eats, yes. She eats her commercial feed + vegetables + eggs (shells and scrambled eggs- not her own). But she is hiding a lot.

I give her the baths because they relieve the redness in her vent and she seems to feel some relief because she stays still while I bathe her.

I do have a calcium supplement at home, prescribed by the vet. But the vet said she probably has a congenital defect in her oviduct because the calcium never worked 100%.

It's the first time she is having so much trouble though. Before this, I would find the soft shelled egg in her "bed" - it's the first time she doesn't release it over night.

I'd like to take her to the vet but our car is being repaired right now. That's why I'm trying to take care of her myself. But I'm worried - she looks like she has a strawberry in her butt.

 

[MaeM]

Update: this is how it's looking like right now. Do you think there is an egg there? I can only feel soft tissue but it's looking like a ball

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I do have a calcium supplement at home, prescribed by the vet. But the vet said she probably has a congenital defect in her oviduct because the calcium never worked 100%.

I would get the calcium into her and see how it goes.

She's able to poop right?

 

[MaeM]

I would get the calcium into her and see how it goes.

She's able to poop right?

She doesn't poop normally, but she poops.

I'm giving her the calcium now, but for how long? How much time can she live like this?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I don't know what the vet gave you, but for Calcium Citrate you can give once daily for a week.

 

[MaeM]

I don't know what the vet gave you, but for Calcium Citrate you can give once daily for a week.

It's calcium carbonate with D3 and other vitamins. It's a powder. You put a teaspoon of it on wet food (such as wet bread) and give it to the chicken. Impractical, but it is what we have here.