Peachesmemory
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- Apr 10, 2015
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My heart is broken...we has to say good bye to our Peaches tonight
Due to a prolapsed vent. It started about a week ago. We were on vacation and our neighbor said there was an egg laid and the yolk was broken. When we got home from vacation we were happy to see our girls and let them out of the coop and I noticed Peaches has something going on. I did my research and quickly knew this was the issue. I did all the steps by cleaning her up with a bath, pushing her insides back in, putting preparation H on the area and kept her separated in a dark area with little light ( to prohibit egg laying) for 2 days to monitor. It seemed like she recovered and I put her back with her friends (we only had 5 hens). All was going good and she seemed like she had recovered. I went to let them out this evening and I noticed something was going on again, but now it was more serious. More of her insides were coming out. I would push them back in and within 10 mins it would happen again. she seemed fine otherwise, walking around and didn't seem like she was in pain. My husband said you know what we need to do. I said not I'm not ready to make that decision yet. I'm going to do more research and see if there is something more we can do. They were roosting for the night and I heard this commotion. I saw Peaches struggling to balance on the roost, so I looked at her back end and it was happening again and now she looked like she was suffering. I knew it was time. As I'm crying my way to my husband with Peaches I handed her over and we made the tough decision to put her out of her suffering. She is buried by our other pets. I'm thinking why did I not know this going into it with chickens?? I've grown up with animals and in 4-H all my life, I even was a prevet student in college. With all my other pets you bring them to the vet, but chickens I'm finding in a lot of these cases you become the vet. Yes I know my other 4 girls will die at some point, but this stinks!! What I've learned is that prolapsed vent can be a very serious and even when you've exhausted all the recovery options, it still might not be enough and wanted to share so others know this could be the unfortunate outcome.
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