Tumor or Cyst on Hen's bottom

[Michigan Chicken]

Can you start a new thread and include pictures of the vent area? Is her tail up or down in position? Has she been laying eggs recently?

I just saw where you did post a thread. Please include a picture. If possible take her in where flies do not get to her. A simple soak in a dish pan or sink with warm soapy water or salt water can help to get anything off the vent area where a good picture can be taken.

someone in that coop has been laying shelless eggs and weak shelled eggs. As the other person suggested, it could be a smashed egg inside her.

 

[Michigan Chicken]

someone in that coop has been laying shelless eggs and weak shelled eggs. As the other person suggested, it could be a smashed egg inside her.

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is a video of an eggbound hen with a prolapse:

 

[Eggcessive]

The lastest picture looks like the abdominal wall is showing, free of skin. She may have had her abdomen pecked by others, which can lead to serious injury and cannibalism. I would look very closely for maggots, which would look like shiny moving worms. Do you see a prolapse? If you chose to treat and not put her down, I would soak her once a day in warm Epsom salts water or soapy water. Dry her and then cover the wound in plain Neosporin or Triple Antibiotic Ointment twice a day to keep it moist. Is she eating and drinking?

 

[Michigan Chicken]

The lastest picture looks like the abdominal wall is showing, free of skin. She may have had her abdomen pecked by others, which can lead to serious injury and cannibalism. I would look very closely for maggots, which would look like shiny moving worms. Do you see a prolapse? If you chose to treat and not put her down, I would soak her once a day in warm Epsom salts water or soapy water. Dry her and then cover the wound in plain Neosporin or Triple Antibiotic Ointment twice a day to keep it moist. Is she eating and drinking?

That is what I have been doing. I suspect cannibalism may have led to the situation, although she was not spending the night with the other hens, and they are free ranging during the day, except this hen, now. I suspect gangrene. If she starts to be in terrible pain and this drags on, I will have to kill her, but, hope for a swift end, naturally.

 

[kelly2013]

Hi there,

I'm a chicken lover by nature and happy to have acquired my first backyard flock within the last couple months. I have a hen that is acting fine, but has a large growth coming out of her bottom, not her vent, more to the right of that. She's passing stools just fine. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? She is a 17 wk. old barred rock. We were thinking at first it was a prolapse vent or she was egg bound, but the growth isn't coming from there... Any ideas on what it could be and if it is curable?

 

[Eggcessive]

@kelly2013 do you have a question or an egg bound prolapsed hen? Welcome to BYC.

 

[kelly2013]

@kelly2013 do you have a question or an egg bound prolapsed hen? Welcome to BYC.

Yes I found one of my chickens with a lump coming out of her bottom please help