SOS VENT PROLAPSE

[azygous]

Oh, that one really made me cringe. I've lost chickens to petroleum distillates, and it's a very real danger they will peck the gasoline on the leg because that's how chicken react to discomfort. There are so many safe alternatives that work very well.

 

[casportpony]

The Chicken Chick gives very trusted and veterinarian backed advice

. The Chicken Chick is great,

I think I have to disagree here. Throughout her website/blog any many errors and misinformations, so take anything you read there with a grain of salt. Heck, she can't even get the Corid dose correct, and that is something that is well documented.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I think I have to disagree here. Throughout her website/blog any many errors and misinformations, so take anything you read there with a grain of salt. Heck, she can't even get the Corid dose correct, and that is something that is well documented.

Kinda like anything you read these days... the bad comes with the good. We have to weed through it... I have given inaccurate information before I learned something different. But I do help more often than not... I'm glad I don't have that many peeps using my info and scrutinizing it.. or counting on it. Heck, I don't even trust myself... and generally suggest a second opinion! My learning journey never ends.. but I'm glad y'all bring it to light that it's good to double check EVEN what you might THINK or consider to be a reliable source.

 

[cottagecheese]

Let me first take cover




EggSighted4Life, you're too quick with the cull advice!

 

[cottagecheese]

Eggcessive, no, not only my own hens. Dozens and dozens of hens from many threads, many forums, many comments on many websites and many youtube comments.

Only one hen of mine is prone to prolapse, she had four episodes (spaced months apart).

 

[Eggcessive]

I have read The Chicken Chick blog for a long time, and generally I think Kathy gives pretty good advice for the most part. At least she researchs and gets vet opinions before she posts. The gasoline post about leg mites was from a vet that commented, but she recommended several other less harmful treatments that many of us use. No one is totally right all the time, and treating poultry is fairly subjective, hence there will always be differing opinions on various topics. I think we all at first believe a lot of the hype about ACV, DE, garlic, pumpkin seeds for worming, and the other popular topics newbies try. Then we learn what works and what is a waste of money. But TCC is one of the better blogs for explaining topics and will discount erronious advice. I link some of her advice since she explains things a bit better than I do.

 

[lmw411]

I'm no expert at chicken handling (obviously), but as with everything, different things work for different people. Just like with humans- some treatments that work amazing for others, don't work as well or at all for some. Medicine is a practice... even chicken medicine!

As for my chicken, she is still prolapsed. She kept it in for about five minutes last night which was a small improvement. She's in a smaller dark cage. Water mixed with vetrx has been given to her. Later I will give her some food and tums mixed in it.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Can you post some photos of the prolapse?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Let me first take cover




EggSighted4Life, you're too quick with the cull advice!

No need to take cover, I'm not easily offended.

I believe in my first response I said that's what I do, but gave other suggestions to help remedy this hen and after hearing from the OP, suggested that for them continuing to hold the vent in with a sling and place in a dark space would likely be a good idea. I breed my birds and don't want the weakness among my stock... regardless if they MIGHT be fixed or not. I am not doing myself or the rest of my flock an favors by keeping a week link to attract parasites, predators, and maybe disease... or pass the weakness to offspring for me to deal with over and over again until I quit keeping chickens. Honestly, a prolapsed hen is perfectly edible and could be processed for the table if it just appears to be more of an injury and not an infection. Most my birds are livestock. I do have a couple who gained pet status and won't be sold off or culled just because they don't lay as they age. But when health deteriorates, I won't watch them die slowly. I have wondered if they would ever grace my table if there were a tragic accident I couldn't help and need to euthanize or if I would toss them in the trash or to the vultures/coons as I do the rest of my carcasses. Glad I don't have to decide today! We did process my favorite rooster and eat him due to a fatal accident. The processing was simply an awful task, out of the freezer they're all the same. Several days later I cried.. not because his body didn't go to waste.. but because he was a truly good rooster and the loss of his presence hurt. It did catch me off guard to be emotional that way. But I'm glad that despite the fact that we produce our own chicken instead of supporting the disgusting practices of big chicken, and even after processing more than 50 just last year... my heart is still tender! I'm not ruthless. I'm practical and I have goals that are different than yours.

But yes, it's important to consider the experience and position of the member we are trying to help and make suggestions that are hopefully appropriate for them.

I'm sorry that you don't like my cull advice.. but it will likely always be at least ONE possible (and effective) suggestion. I usually try to call on someone else who I KNOW does things differently than me so peeps can make the best decision possible with ALL the information they have available to them at the time. One thing that BYC has made abundantly clear is that NO one way is the right way and what works for my friend or neighbor may or may not work for me. All of us, our birds, and our set ups, our perspectives are different. And that's Okay.

After about 10 years and several hundred birds.. I only had 1 Silkie hen prolapse, a rare color I worked hard to get and spent bank on, plus I liked her. Chicken keeping isn't all fun but I don't have time or energy for special needs birds when I KNOW it isn't my feed, lack of calcium, or anything else under my control. I don;t regret my decision to cull. In fact I have more often regretted my decision not to cull and support birds for a month or more only to have to cull in the end. It's much harder to cull after you worked so hard to save them. And one boy who got beat up got an eye infection that I thought he could fight off. I didn't cull, and I decided it was beyond what I could help so eventually culled after trying.. I almost through in the towel completely at the dismay and disgust I felt towards myself for letting him go through that for so long and have to be inside a kennel. I aim for humane... and that doesn't mean saving everyone to try and make myself feel better. It means having the heart to do the hard stuff. And it means I consider the greater good of my whole flock over the individual.

@lmw411 how are you guys doing today? Any improvement?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Water mixed with vetrx has been given to her.

Vetrx is essentially Vicks vapor rub... won't do much especially for prolapse.

I do see your update...

Sorry she isn't improving.