UGLY PROLAPSE - HELP!

[azygous]

With the treatment you've gotten for her, she has a good chance of gracing you with her existence for a good while longer.

 

[Officalchickensnuggler]

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Today I saw one of my hens walking around with this.

Well, it was a bit bigger, but I put some ice on it (with a soft cloth!) and this is the result.

I had a prolapsed chicken before but it wasn't that bad.

I mean, I tried to put the prolapse back in but it keeps coming out. The hen doesn't seem to want it inside and pushes to take it out.

Then it inflates like a ****ing balloon... I thought it was an egg but I touched it (with gloves) and it felt like soft tissue...

I isolated her and will look for a vet ASAP, but I'd like some chicken people's advice and support... Is there anything else I can do for her? She can barely poop :/

For the time being, I put her in a box with clean paper (I know, not the best choice, but I like that it's clean because the prolapse was full of dirt before I found her). She is resting there. She can't sit but she is sleeping standing up like a lot of birds do.

Is there any food I can/should give her?

Yes for sure keep her vent moist since wigs supposed to be in the moist body so we don’t want it to dry out..
And get some gloves on, watch a YouTube on how to get a vent back into a chicken, and do it asap!!! She could die!! After you successfully get it back in there..feed her calcium and high protein foods such as mealworms as this with help steady her shock and get things back to normal

 

[MaeM]

Yes for sure keep her vent moist since wigs supposed to be in the moist body so we don’t want it to dry out..
And get some gloves on, watch a YouTube on how to get a vent back into a chicken, and do it asap!!! She could die!! After you successfully get it back in there..feed her calcium and high protein foods such as mealworms as this with help steady her shock and get things back to normal

Oh, I couldn't do this, it was too big and it wouldn't stay in place.

She got surgery one week ago. They tried to remove her stitches 72 hours after that but she prolapsed again, and released a lash egg.

So she got new stitches. They were removed today, and she didn't prolapse! The vet checked her butt and he said it was clear and he didn't see any reason why she could prolapse again soon.

An egg, perhaps, but he doesn't think she will lay anytime soon as her oviduct is inflammed.

This is her vent today:

What's next?

- A poop exam to study what she releases there. For example, after the stitches were removed, the vet took out her poop with his finger and broke it and there were little, yellowish stones. He said they looked like calcium deposits, but he wants to be sure.

- Another ultrasound in about two weeks to see if her oviduct's inflammation diminishes.

- Reintegration to the flock. Ruby is being aggressive with her sister and one of my barred rocks is being aggressive with her. This didn't happen before.

Thank you everyone for the advice and support!!! Will update as soon as I talk to the other vet.

And in case you're wondering how much I am spending on this... I can't tell you exactly because I don't live in the US, but they only charged for the meds and the materials they used. They did the ultrasound for free.

I'm deeply moved that they care so much about my girl!

 

[Tookie]

Oh, I couldn't do this, it was too big and it wouldn't stay in place.

She got surgery one week ago. They tried to remove her stitches 72 hours after that but she prolapsed again, and released a lash egg.

So she got new stitches. They were removed today, and she didn't prolapse! The vet checked her butt and he said it was clear and he didn't see any reason why she could prolapse again soon.

An egg, perhaps, but he doesn't think she will lay anytime soon as her oviduct is inflammed.

This is her vent today:

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What's next?

- A poop exam to study what she releases there. For example, after the stitches were removed, the vet took out her poop with his finger and broke it and there were little, yellowish stones. He said they looked like calcium deposits, but he wants to be sure.

- Another ultrasound in about two weeks to see if her oviduct's inflammation diminishes.

- Reintegration to the flock. Ruby is being aggressive with her sister and one of my barred rocks is being aggressive with her. This didn't happen before.

Thank you everyone for the advice and support!!! Will update as soon as I talk to the other vet.

And in case you're wondering how much I am spending on this... I can't tell you exactly because I don't live in the US, but they only charged for the meds and the materials they used. They did the ultrasound for free.

I'm deeply moved that they care so much about my girl!

I'm so glad she's doing pretty well! ❤

 

[azygous]

Here in the US we don't even get that kind of comprehensive medical care for humans who actually have expensive health insurance, and trying to find a vet here that treats chickens is woefully scarce and hideously expensive when we can find one. You and your hen are very fortunate.

 

[EdgeC]

Give a human calcium citrate tablet with vitamin D to help muscle contraction, and keep the prolapse tissue moist with honey or ointment until it goes back inside.

I just want to add, Honey is the opposite of moist... It pulls moisture out, as its a supersaturated solution. That is why it is good at what it does, pulls moisture OUT of the membranes of germs and into the honey itself killing them.

 

[azygous]

Not quite. Manuka honey is found to keep a wound moist so as to promote healing of damaged tissue. Scientific study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386265/

 

[EdgeC]

Not quite. Manuka honey is found to keep a wound moist so as to promote healing of damaged tissue. Scientific study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386265/

Thanks, but don't confuse people. Manuka honey is a bitter, non sweet honey. Nothing like honey people will have in their cabinets.

 

[MaeM]

Oh, there was a fourth vet who briefly saw Ruby and said that I could've put SUGAR on the prolapse.

I didn't tell you before because it was kind of irrelevant, and that vet also said that Ruby could pass an egg through the little opening she had when she had the stitches on her vent, and I thought: "LMAO no, you haven't seen her eggs".

I told the other vets about this and they agreed with me, so I thought that perhaps that woman didn't know much about chickens.

But perhaps she was right with the sugar idea? Does anyone know if that actually works?

My first thought is that sugar would attract flies and there would be a higher risk of flystrike.

 

[azygous]

@EdgeC taste is irrelevant to this discussion of using honey as a first aid treatment. Manuka honey is from the Manuka tree growing in New Zealand, and it has enhanced wound care properties. It's also very thick and pasty, allowing it to adhere to a wound without most of it sliding off as viscous ordinary honey often wants to do. However, any honey from any source has healing properties and will keep a wound moist.

If you will read this study done on ordinary honey, it will clarify things when it comes to honey pulling moisture up through the tissue below the wound. It is true honey does this, but the moisture does not evaporate as you may be thinking. Instead, this moisture ends up in the damaged and healing tissue of the wound, thereby supplying valuable moisture for new cell growth. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496555/