My poor beautiful girl has a prolapse again 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Sierra67]

Luckily I know how to handle them at this point, unfortunately this girl is terrified of people

 

[Eggcessive]

What are you normally feeding her? Do you have crushed oyster shell out for them? Can you try some calcium with vitamin d orally? I am tagging @Miss Lydia for more advice.

 

[Sierra67]

What are you normally feeding her? Do you have crushed oyster shell out for them? Can you try some calcium with vitamin d orally? I am tagging @Miss Lydia for more advice.

This is her 3rd prolapse in a year, my drake is a little aggressive (I have more young females coming) she is on a layer pellet with lots of leafy greens and free ranges the yard, I don’t have oyster shells as there’s apparently a shortage so I have calcium pebble things that o got from the feed store. Her eggs are always perfect, she’s consistent, and her prolapses are usually fast to fix

Note: I have one drake and 4 females that free range, I’m aware the ratio isn’t perfect my last Batch of ducklings were all male, I just hatched 4 more babies that I think 3 of are female, they’re 5 weeks old right now

 

[Quatie]

The most important thing is to put her in a bath. I often find a bath can even reverse the prolapse on it's own depending on the severity. You are going to want to give her a bath a couple times a day.

Hydrocortisone, which is the active ingredient in preparation H, it is best to use ointment over cream. It allows the medicine to absorb better into the tissue and will help maintain moisture. Not sure which you are using, but I would switch to ointment if you can. You will want to treat her with this 4 times a day. I coat the prolapse tissue with it.

You will want to gently push the prolapse tissue back in. It may take a while before the tissue stays in. For my duck, it took over 3 weeks before her vent stayed in.

You are going to want to give her extra calcium during this time to promote proper contractions of the muscles. 1ml of Calcium gluconate or a 500mg tablet of calcium citrate can be given to her once a day.

You will want to keep her indoors to keep her vent clean and prevent injury and necrotic tissue. You also want to get her to stop laying eggs to reduce the strain on her vent. Putting her in dark is what most people suggest. I never have much luck with that, but I have managed it with letting them go broody so she stops laying eggs.

I also give anti-inflammatory to help reduce inflammation. This helps the hydrocortisone reduce the inflammation. Reducing the inflammation is key to getting the prolapse to stay in. I use ibuprofen for anti-inflammatory.

Lastly, If you think there is a possibility of infection, you can also treat her with an antibiotic.

 

[Quatie]

This is her 3rd prolapse in a year, my drake is a little aggressive (I have more young females coming) she is on a layer pellet with lots of leafy greens and free ranges the yard, I don’t have oyster shells as there’s apparently a shortage so I have calcium pebble things that o got from the feed store. Her eggs are always perfect, she’s consistent, and her prolapses are usually fast to fix

Note: I have one drake and 4 females that free range, I’m aware the ratio isn’t perfect my last Batch of ducklings were all male, I just hatched 4 more babies that I think 3 of are female, they’re 5 weeks old right now

Just saw this. You are going to want to separate your drake out for a while. This girl is going to need a while to heal.

 

[Eggcessive]

A drake should not be kept with the hens, or there will be injury problems.

 

[Sierra67]

A drake should not be kept with the hens, or there will be injury problems.

Sorry but we have him to have with the hens. Like I said I have more hens coming as well.

 

[Sierra67]

The most important thing is to put her in a bath. I often find a bath can even reverse the prolapse on it's own depending on the severity. You are going to want to give her a bath a couple times a day.

Hydrocortisone, which is the active ingredient in preparation H, it is best to use ointment over cream. It allows the medicine to absorb better into the tissue and will help maintain moisture. Not sure which you are using, but I would switch to ointment if you can. You will want to treat her with this 4 times a day. I coat the prolapse tissue with it.

You will want to gently push the prolapse tissue back in. It may take a while before the tissue stays in. For my duck, it took over 3 weeks before her vent stayed in.

You are going to want to give her extra calcium during this time to promote proper contractions of the muscles. 1ml of Calcium gluconate or a 500mg tablet of calcium citrate can be given to her once a day.

You will want to keep her indoors to keep her vent clean and prevent injury and necrotic tissue. You also want to get her to stop laying eggs to reduce the strain on her vent. Putting her in dark is what most people suggest. I never have much luck with that, but I have managed it with letting them go broody so she stops laying eggs.

I also give anti-inflammatory to help reduce inflammation. This helps the hydrocortisone reduce the inflammation. Reducing the inflammation is key to getting the prolapse to stay in. I use ibuprofen for anti-inflammatory.

Lastly, If you think there is a possibility of infection, you can also treat her with an antibiotic.

Thanks for all the info, like previously stated I’ve done this a couple times, I let her sit in a warm bath for a while then I apply honey and gently push it back in, every time I’ve done it I keep her separated for approximately a day, she passes a normal egg the next morning and the prolapse stays in for quite a few months before happening again.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sounds like your pretty experienced at this hopefully it has worked this time too.
Do you use reg honey or manuka?

 

[Sierra67]

Sounds like your pretty experienced at this hopefully it has worked this time too.
Do you use reg honey or manuka?

I’ve never heard of manuka but I use regular raw honey, seems to work, once I get the prolapse in it tends to stay. I put it back in last night at about 5:30pm, and kept her in a crate in the coop and she seems good this morning at 8:30am it’s still in, no egg so far possibly because of the crate but I’ll see later how well she does.