My chicken has her insides out!

[egghead@1265]

I do think our poor hen has prolapse, as it is referred too on here. It does appear as if her insides are coming out! This evening she seems quite unresponsive, and it has been raining all day, so the hens have been inside all day.

Does anyone use cider vinegar as an additive to their water for their hens or other animals/pets?

 

[Sharoon]

I'm new to raising chickens. My girls are about 32 weeks old. I have two that just started laying. One of them was squaking so bad one day and I remember reading on this website that she might be egg bound so I put in her some warm water and caressed her stomach and she produced two eggs that day. We went away this weekend and left the girls on their own. We had an enclosed area
with food and water and shelter for them at night.
When we got back yesterday and let them out I noticed one of my girls had poop all over her back end. I was going to wash her up but I had to unpack and make dinner and told my husband I'd clean her in the morning. I feel so bad cuz this morning she had all her insides hanging out and the egg was stuck to her lining. My husband came and helped me and we put her in warm water, cleaned her up and he got the egg out. We put PH on her and tried to push her insides in but they don't seem to stay. I put her in a crate with some water to keep her from moving so much. Is there anything else I should do? Since this is the second one of mine that has had this problem, could it be that I feed them too much. I feed them laying feed and them give them some meal worms and some scratch feed almost every day and then they roam free most of the day eating bugs and weeds. We also give them scraps of vegetables and
fruits.