Prolapsed vent & other symptoms

[HeinzRanch]

Yesterday my Ameraucana had symptoms of being egg bound after no eggs layed for 3 days so I gave her an epson salt bath and she passed a soft shell egg. Her vent was extremely prolapsed. I gave her another bath last night, tried pushing it in but she just struggled and kept pushing back out. This morning still prolapsed, gave her another warm epson bath, gave her some chicken hydro water because she wouldn’t eat or drink. She drank water. Put her in dog crate for few hours. This afternoon still prolapsed, milkly liquid discharge, some liquid poo not much. Gave more water and she is vomiting/drooling milky liquid from mouth, breathing still hard struggling and wheezing and making pain noises as I try to push back in. Another bath, still pushing it out. How long can it take to suck back up? Is the liquid from mouth normal and the wheezing? Pour girl…she’s almost a year. Can’t get to eat anything and the hydro water comes back up.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Yesterday my Ameraucana had symptoms of being egg bound after no eggs layed for 3 days so I gave her an epson salt bath and she passed a soft shell egg. Her vent was extremely prolapsed. I gave her another bath last night, tried pushing it in but she just struggled and kept pushing back out. This morning still prolapsed, gave her another warm epson bath, gave her some chicken hydro water because she wouldn’t eat or drink. She drank water. Put her in dog crate for few hours. This afternoon still prolapsed, milkly liquid discharge, some liquid poo not much. Gave more water and she is vomiting/drooling milky liquid from mouth, breathing still hard struggling and wheezing and making pain noises as I try to push back in. Another bath, still pushing it out. How long can it take to suck back up? Is the liquid from mouth normal and the wheezing? Pour girl…she’s almost a year. Can’t get to eat anything and the hydro water comes back up.

I'm sorry about your hen.

It sounds like she's in bad shape. Do you have photos of the prolapse.

If soaking her is stressful, then I'd stop doing that. She needs Extra Calcium. Give 1 Calcium Citrate+D3 now, then once daily for 5-7 days.

Keep the exposed tissue coated with ointment, oil or honey so it doesn't dry out and turn necrotic.
Often tissue is swollen and inflamed and will not go back in and be retained until the swelling goes down, this can take days to happen. So if pushing the tissue in causes her distress and discomfort, stop and wait another day or so, but keep the tissue clean and coated with your ointment of choice.

Are you syringing fluids into her? If so, it sounds like she's aspirating or she has a full crop and fluids are coming back up. The wheezing may be due to that, hard to know. Possible she has fluid in the abdomen, this can also cause some wheezing and gurgling. Take care with syringing/tubing fluids if doing so, it's best to provide water that is reachable and see if they can drink on their own.

What does her crop feel like?