Please help! Vent emergency.

[Miss Lydia]

@casportpony we could really use your expertise.

 

[Canadian Wind]

You're doing everything you can for her right now. She doesn't understand that, but keep your chin up.

 

[DukesDucks]

When this happened to one of mine a few years ago, I was advised to use a cream like Preparation H.

 

[CoriM]

Per this article apparently hemeroid cream is no longer recommended: https://the-chicken-chick.com/prolapse-vent-causes-treatment-graphic/ - I think I read somewhere else that it's something to do with the blood vessels. Anyway, I keep getting it back in my girl and it lasts for an hour or so and pops back out. Really at a loss.

 

[Miss Lydia]

https://www.fresheggsdaily.blog/2014/05/natural-treatment-of-vent-prolapse-in.html
http://www.duckdvm.com/condition/oviduct-prolapse

I am giving these in case there is something in one that might work.

 

[CoriM]

Thank you - I read that one. I have been all over the internet. I just made a clean corner for her in my coop and took her out for a short time because she is obsessively grooming the area and I thought it might distract her and maybe she would lay down and sleep. She pooped as soon as she got out there and it popped right back out. I was able to get it back in, but I see the pattern here and don't know what can stop it from coming out with the poop. I have to be gone for a few hours tonight so I will have to leave her for a bit in the dog crate. I feel terrible, but I also have to sleep and I can't be monitoring her and popping it back in all day long - ugh. Praying it would just hold and she would lie down and rest. She's been standing all day.

 

[Canadian Wind]

It sounds like she may need surgery to keep it in... If nothing else seems to be working. I don't want to be a doomsayer, and I certainly don't want you to have to do this, but you'll have to consider the possibility...

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

Are ducks and chickens different about healing vents?

 

[CoriM]

I did watch this video where a vet put in a stitch, but the lady had to manually remove it when the chicken started laying an egg - the vet said it could die otherwise. Wow, that seems like intense pressure:

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

If so It's going to look bad before it's better so don't give up 1 soak in Epsom salt, take off the crusty/dirt stuff gently by cleaning it. I use Dawn Soap when clean spray vetercyn, then spread honey all over it and sprinkle sugar on it and DON't push it in as there may be bacteria that will get internal. Repeat morning and night or twice a day. Each day it will look worse, and this could take up to 10 days, then one day there will be a mushroom shape scab with healthy tissue under it, Let the scab fall off in itself. I had a hen who laid three eggs during the time she was being treated. Keep her in a dark place to prevent laying. I felt the egg laying (in the dark) helps recorrect it. Finally, it went in by itself.