- Apr 22, 2011
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This is the first time I've ever dealt with chickens, and they're not even mine they are being raised by my mother's elementary school. They are here over the weekend, and absolutely none of us have any idea of what to do when problems come up.
We have three good, healthy chicks, two that hatched this morning and are very weak, one hatching, and one that hatched early this morning and has a prolapsed something-or-other. I know it's not his rectum because chickens have one hole under their tail, and this is more in the stomach area- I can also see the hole he should have((told you, clueless about chickens!!))
There was a bit of brownish stuff that looked a little like poo, more like dead tissue which we cut off. Then he just had a puffy red spot, so we put prepH on it((I've had a rabbit with prolapse)) and put him in with the healthy ones- bad idea, I know that now. Well the other three started pecking at him and now it's out a LOT, about an inch, and just generally bloody- he doesn't seem to be bleeding, just bloody. He's in his own little separate area now, and is getting stuff stuck to his 'insides' which is dragging him down and making him tired. He's very pitiful to look at.
Is there anything I can do? Should I push it all back in and seal it somehow? What is even going on?!
I'd like anything you'd got to say, I like keeping an 'arsenal' of knowledge.
Or would it be better to put him down? How would I go about doing that? Can I take him to a vet and have it done?
We have three good, healthy chicks, two that hatched this morning and are very weak, one hatching, and one that hatched early this morning and has a prolapsed something-or-other. I know it's not his rectum because chickens have one hole under their tail, and this is more in the stomach area- I can also see the hole he should have((told you, clueless about chickens!!))
There was a bit of brownish stuff that looked a little like poo, more like dead tissue which we cut off. Then he just had a puffy red spot, so we put prepH on it((I've had a rabbit with prolapse)) and put him in with the healthy ones- bad idea, I know that now. Well the other three started pecking at him and now it's out a LOT, about an inch, and just generally bloody- he doesn't seem to be bleeding, just bloody. He's in his own little separate area now, and is getting stuff stuck to his 'insides' which is dragging him down and making him tired. He's very pitiful to look at.
Is there anything I can do? Should I push it all back in and seal it somehow? What is even going on?!
I'd like anything you'd got to say, I like keeping an 'arsenal' of knowledge.
Or would it be better to put him down? How would I go about doing that? Can I take him to a vet and have it done?
