What is wrong with my bantam?

[kattfink]

My bantam suddenly has this happening!
What is it and what do I do?
She seems fine other than visually disturbing!

 

[The chicken nurd]

@Eggcessive and @Wyorp Rock
Any ideas

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Can you bring her in and clean her up. Take some more photos.

Looks like prolapse. Hard to tell if the tissue has been damaged due to picking.
Is she able to poop?
If any tissue is still exposed, then keep it moist with oil, honey, anti-inflammatory cream, etc.

 

[kattfink]

Thanks for your reply.
She is extremely hard to catch and I don't like my chances.
She has laid an egg today. Her vent still looks prolapsed and is a bit messy. She has been trying to peck at it.
What should I do if I can't eventually catch her? I have tried a few times :-(

 

[ChicksnMore]

I always wait til bedtime to catch skittish birds. Take a flashlight after shes gone to roost and you should be able to pick her up easily. She should just blink and sit quietly while you pick her up even though she runs like the devil during the day.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thanks for your reply.
She is extremely hard to catch and I don't like my chances.
She has laid an egg today. Her vent still looks prolapsed and is a bit messy. She has been trying to peck at it.
What should I do if I can't eventually catch her? I have tried a few times :-(

Grab her when she's roosting - go out early in the morning or wait until night.

Her pecking at it is not good. The others might too.
I've had a hen that had pecked at a prolapse so badly, it was beyond repair and I was unable to do anything for her and had to put her down.

Keep us posted.

 

[The chicken nurd]

@azygous

 

[azygous]

@Wyorp Rock and I agree it's likely prolapse. This is a medical emergency and a reproductive crisis, about as serious as can happen in Chicken World. So, go catch her. I know how difficult it is, but get it done somehow. When I have such an uncooperative chicken, and yes, I do have a couple who hate me, I herd them into an enclosure of small enough dimensions that I can get the chicken in a corner and grab a leg. Once I make contact, I try to say calming words and slowly bring the chicken into my hands.

You should have a crate prepared to house her for the next day or two while you treat her. Line the crate with a couple of old absorbent towels. Have a basin of warm water ready to bathe her and soak off the mess on her vent and butt. Pat her dry and then give her a calcium tablet, calcium citrate is best, works fastest, but Tums will do. Stick it whole in her beak. She'll swallow.

Then place her in the crate with plenty of water to drink and some of her food. Leave her in a quiet place to rest, monitoring her frequently, but you don't need to handle her. Update us from time to time as to what she poops out, her behavior, what she eats, how much she's drinking, etc.

Hopefully, she's passed most of the material in her oviduct, but it's important to know if any loose yolk is expelled as she will then require an antibiotic. Once all material has been expelled from the oviduct, the prolapse should retract and not fall out again. At that point, she should feel noticeably better.

 

[kattfink]

Thanks so much everyone.
I have caught her the past 2 nights and bathed her in warm water with epson salts. I then applied "soov" haemorrhoid ointment and gently pushed the "lump" back inside the vent.
Today she looks so much better. It has semi returned to position and no fluid leakage. I have attached pics.
I have been told several methods and have attached a pic of the different medications I have been suggested. Which is best to use?

 

[kattfink]

Oh no.... I just witnessed her trying to poo.... her vent was tube like outwards again, just a drop of runny poo came out and she continued straining.
I don't think this is going to be fixable... :-( Is it???