Post Perionitis: are implants always necessary ?

[Amphitecna]

Hello all,

I've been reading through all these forums. What a life saving fount. My girl Ethel (2yo light sussex) is back to her old self. She has a few more days of antibiotics, and a sonogram scheduled, but the vet has already floated the idea of an implant.

I don't know which molecule they use here, but he told me it would need to be replaced annually. I'm sure he'll have more to say after the sonogram.

From what ive read here, I gather many go this route. But while waiting, I'm wondering how many of you choose to NOT implant. I'm assuming this is EYP- what are the chances of it recurring? Is EYP the only kind of peritonitis, or just the most common?

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

@Eggcessive

 

[Eggcessive]

In chickens egg yolk peritonitis which causes masses of egg material and infection, is a common cause of illness in death. Any animal can have generalized peritonitis if the gut is punctured or leaking. I and most of us normal chicken owners would not get a hormone implant for a chicken. First of all, they are not approved for chickens in the US, and most vets will not use them. That said lately, a few people have posted about a vet here or there that has agreed to use hormone implants off label for a chicken. Secondly, they are expensive, hundreds of dollars besides the cost of vet care and lab/xrays/ultrsounds. Most of us do not have access to a vet who even knows much about chickens, or who will even agree to seeing one. I understand if a chicken has become special that some might do as much as possible for them including the hormone implant, but I would say less than 1% would do this.

 

[Amphitecna]

Thanks. I'm in France and the medical norms are different, so I was surprised when the vet brought it up.

Running with the assumption that this was EYP, is there any information/ general experience regarding the liklihood of reoccurrence ? Once she starts laying again, is it a given that she'll deal with this again, or may she return to her normal chicken life?

I presume the sonogram may give info as to the cause of the peritonitis, otherwise they wouldn't waste time on it (again, France has a different mindset than the US on these things ), so it's also possible that this was something else too, I suppose.