Prolapsed vent 99.0

[Hensndoes]

I'm sure we've been here before. Yesterday Pepper my cuckoo appeared to have slightly soiled her tush. Toaday I found her like this. Soaked her to clean her up. Held her innards in her for about 30 min till she stop pulsing them back out. Then put her in a dark crate in the fam room with electrolyte water and no food. Since she's poooped herself again we are repeating previous steps. Hope I caught it soon enough but would like to hear others experiences. From what I read you let her go after 3 days if you can't correct

P.s. Please don't give me a hard time about their diet or lifestyle. The eat quality organic 17% protein food with oyster on the side. They have a huge run and freerange after 3 pm when the hawks move along. They only get scratch as the motivator to bring them back to their safe run and coop. Occasional tuna. Good mama here.

 

[SueT]

My daughter's black sex link pullet had a prolapsed vent w her first egg. They did what you described, over and over, and it may have been more like 5 days for them, and the vent finally stayed in place, and the pullet completely recovered. She's a 2 years old now, still laying an egg nearly every day.
You might also try Preparation H, many here reco it....

 

[Kiki]

Be patient and plan on taking your time, how ever many times you have to help her, is all I can suggest. It's not a "job" a lot of people are willing to do, I wish you the best of luck.

 

[Hensndoes]

My daughter's black sex link pullet had a prolapsed vent w her first egg. They did what you described, over and over, and it may have been more like 5 days for them, and the vent finally stayed in place, and the pullet completely recovered. She's a 2 years old now, still laying an egg nearly every day.
You might also try Preparation H, many here reco it....

Thanks Sue! We used cortisone as it was also a rec and we don't have prep h. Will pick some up tomo. It's nice to hear 3 days isn't the end all. I really like this sweet lady!

 

[Hensndoes]

Be patient and plan on taking your time, how ever many times you have to help her, is all I can suggest. It's not a "job" a lot of people are willing to do, I wish you the best of luck.

Ty.

 

[SueT]

correction to my previous reply: my daughter told me this morning that it actually took 15 days, in the dark, cleaning twice a day, applying neosporin and preparation H. She also put antibiotics in the water and, of course, there was an egg to remove in the beginning. After this time every bit of the prolapse had returned to normal. It was a long, messy process. Good Luck !!! Let us know what happens.

 

[Hensndoes]

Looks maybe like she was eggbound... I never felt one yesterday when I was cleaning her up. Gave another soak and treatment tonight and DH checked. He felt one and massaged it down but she was still prolapsed. She tried and couldn't get it out. Put her back in the warm soak and DH and her did it together. Bum is back inside her and I'm boiling that egg for her to eat.

Edit: false alarm. It popped back out

 

[Eggcessive]

Looks maybe like she was eggbound... I never felt one yesterday when I was cleaning her up. Gave another soak and treatment tonight and DH checked. He felt one and massaged it down but she was still prolapsed. She tried and couldn't get it out. Put her back in the warm soak and DH and her did it together. Bum is back inside her and I'm boiling that egg for her to eat.

Honey or sugar work as well as hemorrhoid cream on treating swelling from a prolapse. So glad that yor hen was able to pass the egg. Was it larger than normal? You may want to give her some calcium (a 1/2 calcium tablet or a Tums) and make sure that she is drinking well, since low calcium and dehydration can add to causes of egg binding. Do you have crushed oyster shell available?

 

[Hensndoes]

Honey or sugar work as well as hemorrhoid cream on treating swelling from a prolapse. So glad that yor hen was able to pass the egg. Was it larger than normal? You may want to give her some calcium (a 1/2 calcium tablet or a Tums) and make sure that she is drinking well, since low calcium and dehydration can add to causes of egg binding. Do you have crushed oyster shell available?

Oyster is kept full in their run. I crushed the shell in with her egg for her just now. I edited previous post as she popped her tush back out after abou 15 min. She is perky again and talking to us while eating. Sigh...

 

[Hensndoes]

We let her go. It's been five days of helping her poop and trying to coax her bum back in. I'm done naming chickens.