Prolapsed vent! help !

[colette peters]

@Eggcessive when I get home I’m going to do an epsom salt bath for 25min and also read to put which hazel on the vent with a cotton ball. Hopefully she’ll get some relief and the spray is coming from amazon tomorrow

 

[Eggcessive]

Just make sure the tissue does not dry out. Do you see any pecking damage to the vent? Hopefully, you can push the vent inside and it will eventually stay.

 

[colette peters]

Just make sure the tissue does not dry out. Do you see any pecking damage to the vent? Hopefully, you can push the vent inside and it will eventually stay.

I didn’t see any of the hens pecking at her. And it’s not oozing blood. Just very moist back there

 

[colette peters]

Just make sure the tissue does not dry out. Do you see any pecking damage to the vent? Hopefully, you can push the vent inside and it will eventually stay.

I came home and did a 20min epsom bath and drenched with witch hazel and this pic is where I’m at. I think the pooped dried and is stuck on the vent. I couldn’t get it to come off. I’m trying to keep it moist. After I cleaned it I put neosporin all over to coat it.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Sometimes that hardened material prohibits the prolapse from completely retracting. Hopefully it will slough off in a day or so with you soaking and keeping ointment on it.

 

[colette peters]

Sometimes that hardened material prohibits the prolapse from completely retracting. Hopefully it will slough off in a day or so with you soaking and keeping ointment on it.

I’m worried the skin is dying it’s turning purple under the hard layer of what looks like dried poop.

I soaked her again 15min before I went to bed, and still not softening. I drenched it with grape seed oil and more neosporin.
Tomorrow that spray is coming. I hope it heals!! My goal is to keep it moist

 

[Eggcessive]

Just keep soaking daily, and keep applying honey or ointment to the vent tissue. As Wyorp Rock said before, it may fall off. There was a thread here recently where that happened. You can sometimes soak them for 20 minutes to soften the scab, then take a wash cloth and try to wash off the scab as they do in the hospital to debride wounds. The main thing is to keep the prolapse moist with whatever produce you choose.

 

[colette peters]

@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock i just soaked her for 20 min in epsom with wash cloth and got the hard stuff off the vent with no bleeding. I flushed it with which hazel and lubed her vent inside and out with grape seed oil.
I had luck with pushing it back in.... until she tried to poop, it came out. Hopefully my spray with arrive in the next few hours.
Pics attached

 

[Wyorp Rock]

@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock i just soaked her for 20 min in epsom with wash cloth and got the hard stuff off the vent with no bleeding. I flushed it with which hazel and lubed her vent inside and out with grape seed oil.
I had luck with pushing it back in.... until she tried to poop, it came out. Hopefully my spray with arrive in the next few hours.
Pics attached

That looks better.
The swelling probably has to go down more for it to be able to stay in, but it looks like you are making progress.

 

[Eggcessive]

Good job on debriding the wound. That is looking so much better. Keep up the good work. Just keep trying to get it to stay in.