Requesting help/ advice on what to do with two of my hens

[seeingreen]

Both of these girls are laying age it’s their first summer as adults. One makes a coughing honking sound like something is stuck in her throat. I’ve checked her mouth and saw nothing. Wormed her just in case but this has been going on for weeks. There’s no discharge, bubbles around eyes. She doesn’t seem sick is eating a drinking but acting like something is stuck in her throat. It’s definitely bothering but I’m not sure what to do and it’s frustrating.


My other hen is has a slight prolapse. I’ve given all the hens apple cider vinegar in their water. I’ve trimmed all her butt feathers and washed her hind end multiple times. While she a good weight and acting normal. There is constantly poop and discharge on her butt and she smells to high heaven. I just washed her again tonight. I don’t want to cull her and beside her horrible rear she runs around and acts like a normal chicken but again this has lasted for weeks. I’ve tried to gently correct the prolapse but it stays the same and again it’s not a terrible prolapse but it isn’t clean.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Can you please post some photos of the prolapse?
Is she laying eggs?
You can try giving her extra calcium for a few days to see if that helps with retention.

For the one making a honking sound, can you get video of what she sounds like? Upload video to youtube and provide a link.

 

[seeingreen]

Can you please post some photos of the prolapse?
Is she laying eggs?
You can try giving her extra calcium for a few days to see if that helps with retention.

For the one making a honking sound, can you get video of what she sounds like? Upload video to youtube and provide a link.

 

[seeingreen]

 

[seeingreen]

 

[seeingreen]

I just washed her hind end that’s why everything is wet but she has smelly discharge which I’m sure is an infection. From what I was reading its Cloacitis but if could be bacterial,fungal, yeast, Protozoa or parasites. The book suggested rinsing with warm water and soap and I’ve been doing that avoiding her vent. And it’s also mention taking salt water with a oral syringe cleaning the vent and then follow up with iodine based antiseptic. I’ve only trimmed feathers washed her multiple times and added apple cider vinegar to the water. I’ll follow up with the saline wash and iodine but with her prolapse I’m not sure if that’s going to even be enough.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The one with the prolapse, I'd give extra Calcium to see if that helps with retention. Keep the exposed tissue moist with an ointment, oil or honey so it doesn't dry out.
Saline wash and Iodine sounds good as a wash up.

The smelly discharge is a concern for sure. Does it smelly yeasty? If so, then vent gleet, but I would suspect it's bacterial infection but couldn't say for sure. A hen that has prolapse often has leakage of urates.
Which direction to go...that's harder for sure. I'd try a topical anti-fungal cream maybe, but the Iodine wash would help with fungal infection. Oral antibiotic like Amoxicillin or Baytril to help if it's bacterial.

Is there a way to get a fecal float to see if she has worms?
Has she laid an egg since prolapse?

The honk. Is that constant or intermittent? I'd re-check the crop to make sure it's emptying. Do look inside her beak for any canker or yellow/white mucous/lesions. The noise reminds me of a hen I had that made a similar sound which finally developed more like a crow over time. She started a few weeks after the girls lost their favorite rooster, stopped when I got another rooster. Not quite the same.
It may be a cough too, so I'd check her out again. Also feel her abdomen for bloat or fluid.