Prolapsed Vent Help (Warning! Pictures attached!)

[KatieG509]

Hello!
My 20 week old Rhode Island Red pullet recently started laying early and has ended up with a prolapsed vent.

Anyone know what the white/brown stuff is? The brown part on the right is hard and kind of looks like poop, the rest seems like the remnants of a soft shell egg. In any case, it doesn’t look like vent tissue, but it’s really stuck on there. I tried washing/soaking it and gently pulling it off and got a few small pieces, but I didn’t want to keep pulling on it if it’s tissue or hurting her.

We’ve never had a prolapse before so any advice would be helpful! She’s isolated and in the dark to help her stop laying. I’ve been washing it and reinserting it 2-3 times a day. She hasn’t laid an egg today but did yesterday (which prolapsed and got stuck).

Thank you!!

 

[Eggcessive]

I would continue to do warm soaks in soapy or Epsom salts water. Try to gently rub off any of the tan tissue, and keep the vent clean as possible. Keep it covered with an oil of choice (coconut, mineral, vaseline, vegetable, or antibiotic ointment) to keep it from drying out, which can cause tissue death. Usually this tan material eventually falls off with repeating soaking and debridement, exposing healthy pink tissue. To stop her from laying temporarily, place her inside a dark room for 16 hours a day, and that may take 3 or more days. Let her out for 8 hours a day to eat and walk around, and do treatments.

 

[KatieG509]

I would continue to do warm soaks in soapy or Epsom salts water. Try to gently rub off any of the tan tissue, and keep the vent clean as possible. Keep it covered with an oil of choice (coconut, mineral, vaseline, vegetable, or antibiotic ointment) to keep it from drying out, which can cause tissue death. Usually this tan material eventually falls off with repeating soaking and debridement, exposing healthy pink tissue. To stop her from laying temporarily, place her inside a dark room for 16 hours a day, and that may take 3 or more days. Let her out for 8 hours a day to eat and walk around, and do treatments.

Thanks! Should I keep trying to reinsert it or wait until it sloughs off?

It does remind me of my son’s belly button scab when he was a newborn...