VENT PROLAPSED HEN!!! PLEASE HELP I HEARD A POP AND STUFF SPILLED OUT THERE IS BLOOD EVERYWHERE

[ChickenTender1203]

She is gone.

 

[Weeg]

I don't have a lot of experience, but to me that is the moment I'd say, "oh sugar honey iced tea, she probably just had an egg break in there. I need to get her seen and started on antibiotics, ASAP." Like, immediately. I don't know if at that point it may have already been too far gone to save her though.

If someone doesn't have access to a vet, what course of treatment can a keeper do from home? I have heard of using fish antibiotics for birds and other pets, goat meds on chickens etc. I also have a 24 hour emergency vet that sees chickens about an hour away from me though, so if a situation were dire enough, I know where I could go. I realize not everyone does.

Unfortunately it was determined by many members this hen could not recover. She is going to be euthanized.

 

[Kiki]

She is gone.

She died on her own?

 

[Weeg]

She is gone.

I’m dI sorry for your loss, big hugs. You made the right choice. As much as we all want to save them, sometimes the last kindness we can give them is euthanasia. I’m so sorry.

 

[Weeg]

She died on her own?

I believe in an earlier post Op said her dad would euthanize her.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Ah, I see. It just seemed to me that it would make her push more bad stuff out.

Calcium helps with both retention and contractions. It's commonly given to hens that have a prolapsed oviduct.

I don't have a lot of experience, but to me that is the moment I'd say, "oh sugar honey iced tea, she probably just had an egg break in there. I need to get her seen and started on antibiotics, ASAP." Like, immediately. I don't know if at that point it may have already been too far gone to save her though.

If someone doesn't have access to a vet, what course of treatment can a keeper do from home? I have heard of using fish antibiotics for birds and other pets, goat meds on chickens etc. I also have a 24 hour emergency vet that sees chickens about an hour away from me though, so if a situation were dire enough, I know where I could go. I realize not everyone does.

Not in this case. Too much has come out. (The intestines and oviduct)
Here's some reading about treating a general prolapse. https://the-chicken-chick.com/prolapse-vent-causes-treatment-graphic/

Antibiotics are usually not needed at all to treat a mild prolapse.

Glad you do have access to a vet. Most do not.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She is gone.

I'm very sorry about your hen
I know it's hard, but you made the right decision to have your Dad take care of her.

Often a hen can be helped with a minor prolapse, but unfortunately her condition was too advanced. Even with immediate vet care, likely the recommendation of euthanasia would have been recommended since it was so severe.

 

[ChickenTender1203]

I don't have a lot of experience, but to me that is the moment I'd say, "oh sugar honey iced tea, she probably just had an egg break in there. I need to get her seen and started on antibiotics, ASAP." Like, immediately. I don't know if at that point it may have already been too far gone to save her though.

If someone doesn't have access to a vet, what course of treatment can a keeper do from home? I have heard of using fish antibiotics for birds and other pets, goat meds on chickens etc. I also have a 24 hour emergency vet that sees chickens about an hour away from me though, so if a situation were dire enough, I know where I could go. I realize not everyone does.

We have 3 pullets who were actually supposed to start laying this week, and one of them actually laid their first egg a couple days ago. But they get bullied by the older girls so the eggs were laid outside of the nesting boxes and this morning I found one of their eggs in their dust bathing spot, right near where the egg yolk, which is where Gobble (the hen with the vent prolapse) was standing alone so I immediately assumed that one of the pullets had broken one of their eggs and eaten the shell and we just got done with an egg eating phase so we have seen broken eggs a lot lately and I hadn't thought much of it

 

[ChickenTender1203]

She died on her own?

My dad put her down.

 

[Kiki]

We have 3 pullets who were actually supposed to start laying this week, and one of them actually laid their first egg a couple days ago. But they get bullied by the older girls so the eggs were laid outside of the nesting boxes and this morning I found one of their eggs in their dust bathing spot, right near where the egg yolk, which is where Gobble (the hen with the vent prolapse) was standing alone so I immediately assumed that one of the pullets had broken one of their eggs and eaten the shell and we just got done with an egg eating phase so we have seen broken eggs a lot lately and I hadn't thought much of it

Egg eating phase...this can be a sign the birds are missing something from their diet. Are you feeding oatmeal regularly?