Please Help... Turkey Hen With Unknow Problem. **Graphic Photos**

[codyjoe]

I have a hen that has been not acting well. I was wondering if maybe she was egg bound or something. When I flipped her over.. it looks like some flesh??? is coming out of her butt. She is almost a year old. I have no clue what would cause this. I have been trying to find a vet that will see a turkey and have yet to find one (I am still trying though). Anyone have any suggestions to what this might be? How to fix it.. or can it even be fixed?

 

[turkey guru]

if thats her tail ( can't tell) its picking from other birds! remove her from flock and treat with anti pick lotion.. if thats her vent, well I don't know!!! I would treat with iodine, what ever it is !! tom

 

[Frosty]

If it's coming out of her vent, it's probably a prolapse. You can try doing a search here on it, I don't know if anyone has had success treating it? I know that if you get it cleaned up and pushed back in, a lot of times it will come back out. If the other birds see it and start picking, they will pull her innards out so I would keep her seperated until you find out for sure what it is and have a plan for treating.

 

[bigstack]

If it is prolaps (I think it is) it may or may not return. Probly will. Sorry! If it is just picking seperate until she heals. Prolaps is when the insides begin to push out. You can do a search on here for it. There are alot of threads discussing it. You can use preperation H and some other stuff. I hope all goes well!

Good Luck and God Bless!

 

[ivan3]

You can try to treat, it does look to be a prolapse. Did you apply any sort of lotion to keep the tissue moistened? It starts to dry and die (necrosis) pretty rapidly. If she is still hanging in there: Boil water and a plastic spray bottle for ten minutes. Cool the water and pour into spray bottle (sterile). Clean the area by spraying and daubing away the waste/dirt/water with sterile 4"x4"'s (boiled wash cloth will do) without touching the tissue itself. Apply glycerin or hypo allergenic lanolin hand lotion (if that is all that is available) to tissue and use a cotton swab to identify the lumen (opening). Apply the PrepH with gloved hand and carefully push the tissue back up into the hen (the eversion of the vagina and protrusion therof is usually twisted (torsion), so just be slow and careful. The hen should then be placed in a room/confinement with minimal lighting (suppress further egg laying). There is every chance that culling may be kinder. However, another member, posted a shot over on the old EZBYC, back in `06 of one of her hen's complete reproductive tract that had been expelled. The hen was alive two weeks after this occurred.

If you are successful at keeping her `intact' you might consider an antibiotic (infection secondary to any dead tissue).

Chapter 41 of Avian Medicine Principles and Application (though focus is one companion birds) covers surgical intervention for this as well as other info. (pg.1125). http://www.avianmedicine.net/ampa/41.pdf

The entire book can be downloaded for free (charging quite a bit on Amazon for hard copy). A good reference to have around: http://www.avianmedicine.net/ampa.html (the tiny line by pic of book: `click to read book in pdf format', SAVE when it finishes downloading)

The following ref. covers susceptibility within specific breeding lines, but good info. on physiology: http://ps.fass.org/cgi/reprint/79/10/1491.pdf

Hoping for the best.

Did you check the vet list? https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=200108