Prolapsed vent?? Please help!

[Duckysquacker]

Hello!
I am new to chickens and my chicks are roughly a week and a half old. They have been in a brooder with a heat lamp and shaved pine bedding. I check them twice a day for pasty butts and had issues the first couple days with a couple of the chicks and gave them a warm water soak and gentle cleaning, but no issues the last four days or so but have continued to check. One of my bantams seems to have a swollen or prolapsed vent this morning and has me worried. I gave her (pronouns are simply manifesting as idk the genders yet) a warm water soak, she didn't have a pasty butt though just the weird looking vent. She is eating and drinking and pooped on me while I was drying her and it looked normal. Any advice or experience with this would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Duckysquacker]

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[overyonder]

Hi @Duckysquacker - I'm in the same boat. I have a rainbow layer type pullet about the same age with the same issue. I've been using a Vetricyn spray every 3-4 hours and then coating with triple antibiotic. my little gal is very energetic and still eating and drinking, but the vent refuses to go back into place and is still red and inflamed. She's isolated from the others because they will keep pecking her. I've looked at a lot of 'chick vent prolapse' posts on this forum and it seems this is the best we can do and hope that staying the course results in the tissue healing enough to go back into place, but I'm trying to keep my expectations realistic. hope your Auggie pulls through.

 

[Duckysquacker]

Hi @Duckysquacker - I'm in the same boat. I have a rainbow layer type pullet about the same age with the same issue. I've been using a Vetricyn spray every 3-4 hours and then coating with triple antibiotic. my little gal is very energetic and still eating and drinking, but the vent refuses to go back into place and is still red and inflamed. She's isolated from the others because they will keep pecking her. I've looked at a lot of 'chick vent prolapse' posts on this forum and it seems this is the best we can do and hope that staying the course results in the tissue healing enough to go back into place, but I'm trying to keep my expectations realistic. hope your Auggie pulls through.

I will try those things also! I have been giving her warm water soaks and gentle cleanings to keep it clean and then covering it with aquaphor. Luckily hers doesn't seem inflamed or red anymore, just still swollen a bit. I hope your baby also recovers! How old is your pullet? Also, the other chicks only seem to peck her right after a soak, which they do also with any others that I do that with for pasty butt so I think it has something to do with them being wet? Anyway, is isolating her ok to do? I didn't want her to be alone but I also dont want them to peck her if they are and I'm just not seeing it.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would dry her vent after the soaks, and keep putting the Aquaphor on it until it goes back inside. Some use hydrocortisone cream, honey or witch hazel to help shrink it. The main thing is to not let it dry out.