Prolapsed Vent HELP

[Ella_michele08]

Calcium citrate with vitamin D. I would have bought that first. Calcium carbonate or Tums is okay, but the citrate works faster. Imodium is not a good thing to give her as Wyorp Rock said. Calcium helps muscle contraction to keep the prolapse in, and to help pass eggs.

Yeah I think she's been laying.
Thankyou for the help, I just don't have time rn to get her what you recommend
In two weeks when I get some does it have to be the 600mg?

 

[Ella_michele08]

Last night I gave Abby the 1/4th of the immodium and this morning I'm not sure it helped with the swelling bc the swelling looked worse maybe after I pushed the prolapse back in bc it won't stay in for some reason even after two ish weeks.

This was this morning(at a weird angle)

 

[ChicNmom]

It's been a while. I wonder if her muscles have just adapted to that situation and are all stretched out. Especially if she's pushing out an egg every day every other day.

It looks much better than the first picture. Almost healthy looking tissue aside from the prolapse. I kept putting the ointment in my hens vent so any eggs would slip out easier.

There was a thread here where someone made a prolapse sling to hold it in place. It worked for them.

But I would worry about it holding waste near the vent and definitely wouldn't try it if I wasn't available to check it several times a day. I would also be very careful about the sling material

The immodium I tried for my hen was not for swelling but because when I pushed her vent in it would stay for a moment but she had diarrhea and her vent was working overtime to push the poop out and then the prolapse would pop back out. I did it once to give her a break.
It worked for me. But I also got to work on the prolapse probably within a day of it happening.

I wish I had some other ideas but I don't.

This was what helped my hen even though it was an unconventional idea.

 

[Ella_michele08]

It's been a while. I wonder if her muscles have just adapted to that situation and are all stretched out. Especially if she's pushing out an egg every day every other day.

It looks much better than the first picture. Almost healthy looking tissue aside from the prolapse. I kept putting the ointment in my hens vent so any eggs would slip out easier.

There was a thread here where someone made a prolapse sling to hold it in place. It worked for them.

But I would worry about it holding waste near the vent and definitely wouldn't try it if I wasn't available to check it several times a day. I would also be very careful about the sling material

The immodium I tried for my hen was not for swelling but because when I pushed her vent in it would stay for a moment but she had diarrhea and her vent was working overtime to push the poop out and then the prolapse would pop back out. I did it once to give her a break.
It worked for me. But I also got to work on the prolapse probably within a day of it happening.

I wish I had some other ideas but I don't.

This was what helped my hen even though it was an unconventional idea.

Yes I wonder that too! Even tho they say hens can't live with a prolapse she acts completely normal!
Her vent has been stretched for a couple months but the swelling is new.
Yes I tryed it once(the sling) and it didn't work but I'm positive I did it wrong, she just pushed it off and her prolapse came but, but it was probably bc I did it wrong.

Yeah kinda same with my hen and the diarrhea pushing it out but somehow she always pushed it out and it's odd.
I'm not positive she is laying but every day or every other I get a weird shapped egg and it might be hers because the other chickens with her have been laying normal eggs. So I just wonder if it's hers.

I understand, I worked on abbys prolapse the second day I think so I'm suprised it's not going in. She rlly wants to go outside but I'm afraid bc the two times I let her out in the past three weeks she gets the prolapse dirty and I don't think that's good.

Yeah ur right, the tissue does seem ok but she just doesn't like it inside. Thankyou for all the time and thought you've taken to help me. I will continue to post and pray she's OK while I'm gone four ish days

 

[Eggcessive]

Again, calcium citrate is what I would use for the prolapse to stay in, not Imodium. It is available at Walmart in the Equate brand.

 

[Ella_michele08]

Again, calcium citrate is what I would use for the prolapse to stay in, not Imodium. It is available at Walmart in the Equate brand.

THANKYOU!
I may not be able to get it for a couple weeks but....
If I use Amazon eventually would you still recommend the Equate brand or this cheaper one?

 

[ChicNmom]

THANKYOU!
I may not be able to get it for a couple weeks but....
If I use Amazon eventually would you still recommend the Equate brand or this cheaper one?

Either will work. But I bought the 21st Century brand and I don't like the size and shape of the tablets. They are round and thick and larger than expected. I'm not sure I would want to swallow one so I cut them in half when giving them to my hen.

An oblong shape works better.

 

[Ella_michele08]

Either will work. But I bought the 21st Century brand and I don't like the size and shape of the tablets. They are round and thick and larger than expected. I'm not sure I would want to swallow one so I cut them in half when giving them to my hen.

An oblong shape works better.

Yeah cutting them up is a good idea.

I'm gonna check on Abby today, I was suprised to see that her prolapse stayed in yesterday from when I put it in around 11 til 7pm so it was SO HAPPY! but i haven't checked it today yet, so fingers crossed, lol

 

[Ella_michele08]

I checked her this morning and her prolapse came back out so I put it in two times and it kept popping back out, so I gave her a sliver of the immodium bc that's all I have rn and I pushed it back in. I'm worried about her.
I won't be able to tend to her Friday morning thru Monday morning

 

[ChicNmom]

I checked her this morning and her prolapse came back out so I put it in two times and it kept popping back out, so I gave her a sliver of the immodium bc that's all I have rn and I pushed it back in. I'm worried about her.
I won't be able to tend to her Friday morning thru Monday morning

Did she lay an egg and pop it out again?

Is it all the way back out? My girls vent didn't all stay in at once but it stayed in for a longer period of time and not as much popped out before it finally stayed all the way in. She had about 24 hours in after the pooping stopped. Then slightly out then it stayed all the way in.

Did the diarrhea slow down or stop? I wouldn't want her constipated. The only goal I had for the immodium was to give her vent a rest so the prolapse would have a chance to stay in.

If you don't have the calcium citrate yet can you give her another calcium? Would she eat clean dry crumbled egg shells? Those are free. I would think that would digest and absorb better than oyster shell. Then if you had separate vitamin D in a lower dose you could add that in.