Okies in the BYC The Original

[Stray]

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Stray is she laying shell-less eggs? You can give her a little yogurt once a day to boost her calcium. Just plain, no fruit or flavoring. Give her 1 tablespoon daily.

No they're not shell-less. The membrane from the uterus was what had dried, I wanted to know how to deal while the uterus hanging out... Sorry for never being clear.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Stray is she laying shell-less eggs? You can give her a little yogurt once a day to boost her calcium. Just plain, no fruit or flavoring. Give her 1 tablespoon daily.

No they're not shell-less. The membrane from the uterus was what had dried, I wanted to know how to deal while the uterus hanging out... Sorry for never being clear.

If her vent is protruding, gently poke it back in and put some Preparation H ointment on her vent. It will help reduce the swelling in the tissue so it will stay in. If her vent is protruding, keep her isolated from the other chickens so they don't peck on her protruding tissue.

 

[Stray]

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No they're not shell-less. The membrane from the uterus was what had dried, I wanted to know how to deal while the uterus hanging out... Sorry for never being clear.

If her vent is protruding, gently poke it back in and put some Preparation H ointment on her vent. It will help reduce the swelling in the tissue so it will stay in. If her vent is protruding, keep her isolated from the other chickens so they don't peck on her protruding tissue.

I can't push the rest of tissue in since it's basically dead skin (and the vet told me only to push in what didn't look dead.), and she won't let me pull on it to see if it will just let go. She's pecked at it but has done nothing else to it. What should I do with the dead skin?

 

[HennyPennies2007]

The Christmas In The Park was a blast....

My chest started hurting REAL bad... Mike was running the bucket truck and I was with my friend. I thought I am gonna die right here on the street...I thought of Buster's story.."Just call on the name of the Lord, son." "Well that can't be good"...made me chuckle... I survived.

OK...I saw a guy with a 6 pointer on his trailer on the way to town...people will shoot anything....Maybe it was a kid shooting it. I don't think I could shoot a doe...It's like hens and roosters...unless you want babies roosters are a waste of air. I don't know why I have this urge to hunt now...last year it was turkeys...this year deer.....Maybe I just wanna kill stuff! LOL..My friend's husband has a picture of a serious deer on his game camera...Holy cow...it's HUGE...that deer is going to be in the wrong place at the wrong time someday real soon.... Good luck you guys...someone told me I need to try deer jerky?

I got some good pics of my hennies today. My little rooster is a riot! My silkie is a spaz and I have a hard time getting any decent photos of it. I see these awesome pictures of chickens on here and I wonder how people could have taken them...

Stray hang in there...don't let it get to you...you got a lot on your plate...one thing at a time...one crisis at a time....

Carla...give Gerald a hug and tell him to hang in too....That poor guy...he can't win....

 

[nnbreeder]

Stray it's my brain thats fuzzy this evening not your description. If the skin is just dried coat with vasaline to help it rehydrate. If it isn't black it still has a chance.

Treatment:
You can try to push the prolapse organs back in, very carefully
First, remove the hen immediately from the flock to prevent cannibalism
Clean the prolapse organ
Which will have become dirty
Use warm water and a very mild soap
Smear with a lubricating jelly like Vaseline and very gently push the prolapsed organs back into the body cavity

Isolating the bird and reduce the feed to try and stop her laying
She more than likely she has another egg already moving down the oviduct
The next egg laid could cause another prolapse

Helping to prevent further damage when a hen is prolapsed
1. Reducing swelling and allowing the muscles to contract
2. Preventing a yeast infection
3. Preventing them laying
4. If there is any small prolapse gently push it back into the chicken with your fingers
5. Put the hen on a maintenance diet of wheat and water
6. Put in a dark cage to stop the laying cycle (5 days to 2 months (severe case))
7. In severe prolapse a purse suture may be need to the cloaca

Wash area with sterile water and using preparation-H (this is an ointment used for humans who have piles or hemaroids)
Coat the extended portion in and around the vent area.
Preparation -H reduces the swelling tissue and thus allows the tissue to recede.

 

[faerielady]

Evenin' Okies... haven't been around today. Saturdays are horribly filled with errands it seems, even though soccer season is finally over (for at least a couple months, at least!). After taking my girl to get her allergy shot today, we went to a couple stores with my mom, then dropped her and mom off at my parents' house so my dad could take her to temple today. Afterward J and I went to Lumber 2 and picked up feed, wood pellets, and medium flake pine shavings/chips for the coop.

I mixed the shavings and the pellets together, then layered them deep in the bottom of the coop, and a thick layer of chip/pellet on the shelf where they roost off the ground. I need to find a lid or something to use as the bottom tray of a homemade feeder... I can't find something around here to use! I've tried Home Depot, Lowes, and Lumber 2. I'm at a loss. Someone told me to use the plastic base of a plant container, but I can't seem to find *those* either.

Makes me very frustrated. I did forget to pick up the bag of DE from J's house to use in the coop (we used a batch of it at his house when we found out one of his trees was harboring ticks... we dusted the ground around the tree pretty thickly, then cut the tree down... neither of us was bitten by any ticks doing it that way).

I might not make it through the week at the second job... the boss is being rather, shall we say, characteristically narcissistic, and I don't think I can work around that anymore. To be honest, I'd rather find a more "regular" second job, and enjoy being off a bit more during the holiday season. Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of management is like that. However, most management people tend to "fake it" a lot better, which doesn't put the workers in the position of having it shoved under their nose.

Especially when she made the comment that she doesn't like chickens because they "creep her out". I admit that I just stared at her for a few minutes... then turned around and walked away. Um, yeah. Ok. She can freak out and I can sleep free in the knowledge that she'll never "invite herself over" to my house like she does to other people.

 

[HennyPennies2007]

That one I culled today was the one I took that tissue off of. It had started to reinfect...could smell the infection and it was oozing. It was way back in the body cavity...wasn't going to do any more to the poor thing. But I wonder if the infection wasn't way up in the vent and I was just getting what was visible....I talked to Al and we tossed the idea back and forth that it could be a laying issue that wasn't visible...She was still a little young yet...I really don't think she could be laying...but that abscess was just a symptom of something bigger inside the hen...(my conclusion....

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I learned a lot that I can take into the next situation, though...

 

[HennyPennies2007]

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Hubby says he can totally relate...

the Boss.

 

[nnbreeder]

From what I have read through the years chickens are prone to getting tumors. She could have had EYP or this could have been from the resp. thing that was going on for so long.

I'm really suprised that chickens are still on this earth today with all that can go wrong with them.

Maybe that's why they have 20 babies at a time.

 

[MAllen]

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Take a bunch of photos, of all sides, use the best ones for showing off the chicken.