Pullet swallowed a foot of paracord.

[PouleChick]

Sounds like she is doing good so far. I'm dreading the day one of mine do something silly like that! I really hope she stays OK and the cord passes eventually.

 

[BreanneRN]

So glad to hear she is doing well!!!

 

[Kiki]

@smudge How's you girl doing this evening?
Pooping still?

 

[BreanneRN]

If you can, notice the consistency of the poop, note if it is watery or unformed, or appears formed and normal. Also, note if she appears to start to strain more than normal when pooping. Hoping she continues to do well...

 

[Birdsong 82]

Wow wonder how long it will take to come out?! But the fact that she still acting as she should is a good sign it means to me that it hasn’t caused any problems on its passage through. Keep us updated. Still praying for the girl

 

[anvia]

Confessions of a bad chicken owner....
Last year one of our identical ex batts was seen happily chugging down a length of blue nylon rope estimated to be around 2-3ft. By the time we got outside it was a case of guess which ginger chicken ate the rope - we fully expected one to die over the following week or someone to be having a long blue poo...
The chickens all survived & we’ve never seen any trace of that rope. Fingers crossed for you!

 

[Birdsong 82]

Confessions of a bad chicken owner....
Last year one of our identical ex batts was seen happily chugging down a length of blue nylon rope estimated to be around 2-3ft. By the time we got outside it was a case of guess which ginger chicken ate the rope - we fully expected one to die over the following week or someone to be having a long blue poo...
The chickens all survived & we’ve never seen any trace of that rope. Fingers crossed for you!

Never came back out?! Wow! I’m glad they did well after that. That’s got to be nerve-racking for anybody to find that happening

 

[Birdsong 82]

Confessions of a bad chicken owner....
Last year one of our identical ex batts was seen happily chugging down a length of blue nylon rope estimated to be around 2-3ft. By the time we got outside it was a case of guess which ginger chicken ate the rope - we fully expected one to die over the following week or someone to be having a long blue poo...
The chickens all survived & we’ve never seen any trace of that rope. Fingers crossed for you!

and that does NOT Make you a bad chick an owner. Chickens get into some crazy things

 

[anvia]

Never came back out?! Wow! I’m glad they did well after that. That’s got to be nerve-racking for anybody to find that happening

It was awful - they were fairly new to us and you have to sign all these documents declaring how wonderfully you will care for them in their retirement as they’ve had a horrible life so far.... - blessed birds! only to find 15 of them all looking back me - as if to say what? What blue rope? It wasn’t me!
I’m assuming it did come out somehow! - maybe she poo-ed it out & we never found it? - ours free range, or ground it down somehow... but we never saw any traces of blue nylon poo cleaning their coop - I did up the oyster shell in their feed - I was thinking about hopefully grinding it up and passing it more easily?
It is a mystery to this day - but one with a happy ending - there is hope - don’t despair.

 

[BreanneRN]

It was awful - they were fairly new to us and you have to sign all these documents declaring how wonderfully you will care for them in their retirement as they’ve had a horrible life so far.... - blessed birds! only to find 15 of them all looking back me - as if to say what? What blue rope? It wasn’t me!
I’m assuming it did come out somehow! - maybe she poo-ed it out & we never found it? - ours free range, or ground it down somehow... but we never saw any traces of blue nylon poo cleaning their coop - I did up the oyster shell in their feed - I was thinking about hopefully grinding it up and passing it more easily?
It is a mystery to this day - but one with a happy ending - there is hope - don’t despair.

Thanks for sharing this hopeful story, I am thinking that a little oyster/granite grit is not a bad idea at all... This is the 2nd post indicating that the cord was never found, so maybe it is ground up gradually by grit in the gizzard until finally it is gone... Or, when it does come out, it has been in there so long it is no longer recognizable. But that is purely speculation. Hoping things are going well, still, and continue to.