Hi, BYC Friends.
We've been flat out planting 300 seedlings, opening our gallery for the first time since 2019 and trying to keep up with all the regular spring farm chores, so we've not been on here much. Unfortunately, yesterday morning (Tuesday), we went out to let the ducks out and Mouse (one of our 4-year-old) silver Appleyards was sitting uncomfortably by the water bucket in the run. She was slow to get going, but then she went to follow the rest of the flock, and I saw a great deal of blood. Long story short, she had a pretty major prolapsed vent. We called our vet who said to bring her right in (she's just 5 minutes away), and so we took her.
Our vet is amazing!
The vet sedated her and got her going on some antibiotics. The bleeding was pretty severe. She wrapped her and kind of situated her on her back, and the bleeding subsided and the tissue swelling reduced. Unfortunately, there was some trauma to the membrane, so a couple sutures were needed. She spent last night at the vet and is on her way home today. According ti the vet, she is defecating okay and drinking well. She's doing some preening. She's not eating much (but she's at the vets).
We plan to crate her indoors in a bathroom. We will be doing oral antibiotics 3x/day, pain meds 2x/day and cloacal cream via syringe 1x/day (silver sulfadiazine cream/2-3 cc). What do you think about letting her swim in the tub some? Also, we've never done the cloacal cream via syringe thing--any tip or tricks? Anything else? Our vet is off the rest of today (well she's off all of today, but she's spent half of it with us!), so if we have an emergency, we'll be managing on our own mostly and using the emergency clinic (and you guys!).
Here is Mouse in better times with her best boy Angus (who is missing her VERY much).
We've been flat out planting 300 seedlings, opening our gallery for the first time since 2019 and trying to keep up with all the regular spring farm chores, so we've not been on here much. Unfortunately, yesterday morning (Tuesday), we went out to let the ducks out and Mouse (one of our 4-year-old) silver Appleyards was sitting uncomfortably by the water bucket in the run. She was slow to get going, but then she went to follow the rest of the flock, and I saw a great deal of blood. Long story short, she had a pretty major prolapsed vent. We called our vet who said to bring her right in (she's just 5 minutes away), and so we took her.
Our vet is amazing!
The vet sedated her and got her going on some antibiotics. The bleeding was pretty severe. She wrapped her and kind of situated her on her back, and the bleeding subsided and the tissue swelling reduced. Unfortunately, there was some trauma to the membrane, so a couple sutures were needed. She spent last night at the vet and is on her way home today. According ti the vet, she is defecating okay and drinking well. She's doing some preening. She's not eating much (but she's at the vets).
We plan to crate her indoors in a bathroom. We will be doing oral antibiotics 3x/day, pain meds 2x/day and cloacal cream via syringe 1x/day (silver sulfadiazine cream/2-3 cc). What do you think about letting her swim in the tub some? Also, we've never done the cloacal cream via syringe thing--any tip or tricks? Anything else? Our vet is off the rest of today (well she's off all of today, but she's spent half of it with us!), so if we have an emergency, we'll be managing on our own mostly and using the emergency clinic (and you guys!).
Here is Mouse in better times with her best boy Angus (who is missing her VERY much).
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