What we did to help our chicken that was egg bound with a prolapsed vent | Backyard Chickens
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Chicken prolapsed vent can pop up out of nowhere and is usually traumatic - both for the chicken and keeper. We learned a lot while treating our chicken with a prolapsed vent and will share what we tried to heal her naturally and how it went.
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It looks like she recognizes that you are caring for her. She appears very relaxed and trusting of your touch.
We try to handle them as much as possible when they are young so they are used to us. Thanks for watching!
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Its pretty amazing how calm the chicken is
! I am glad she is doing better. God is so good! He loves the chickens too!
Agreed! 😊 Thanks for watching!
What a stupid comment
Our white silkie fell out last weekend. He found her laying motionless on the ground of the coop. She couldn’t walk and it felt like she was eggbound. We soaked her in warm water and epsom salt,oiled her vent with KY jelly and gave her all the pediolite she could drink. I did call a vet. Not much help. We moved her into a dog carrier and put her in the kitchen. No egg so we think it could’ve been a heat stroke. I would have taken her to the vet but she got better and loved the indoors. If it happens again we’re going to make her our first in house hen. We love Little Daisy May that much
Aw! Glad she got better!
I've often bathed chickens in Epsom salts (20 mins) for being egg-bound (Magnesium flakes are fine) not experienced one with a prolapse 'tho - mine love a blow-dry too! Thanks for taking the time to help her. I currently have a year-old Silkie with a bleeding vent, vitamins, probiotics & bathing - sad thing is they hide their illness so you often can't treat it in time 😥
I just found one of my favorite silkies like this, just started laying and now she's covered in blood with an egg stuck in a prolapse. I'm so upset right now trying to help my poor girl
@@LMCorvinussorry to hear this, I dread when one has a prolapse - think there are very helpful videos or possibly a vet? I'm bathing a poorly Silkie every few days too 😥
@@WildwoodTV this video itself was so helpful, there aren't any vets that will treat chickens near me, so I'm stuck doing it myself and dealing with anything that goes wrong. I hadn't realized that the one vet that used to stopped practicing After getting bad long covid, dude was really old already
@@LMCorvinus I hope she gets better soon - Chickenlandia also shows how to push it back in, her vet did a stitch (temporary) my vet just gives antibiotics & pain killer, they usually die afterwards 😥so you may as well try yourself, it can be successful🤞🤞I find magnesium/epsom salts relaxes them.
@@WildwoodTV she's a world better today and the vent stayed back inside after I pushed it back in last night. So far so good, she's even pooped without pushing it back out. I've reduced her light, fortunately my silkies only lay eggs like once a week tops, they're really spare with them right now. So hopefully I can keep her from laying until it heals. I'm just really really hoping that she either does OK or goes quickly, as I do not have a vet that will see chickens near me, and I'm not even remotely confident in my ability to humanely take her out myself. I wouldn't even know how to go about that...
I just lost a chicken yesterday that I hatched out in August. I have lost many because I have never been able help them pass the egg with the epsom salt bath. I will try this next time. Thanks for showing that it can be done.
I'm so sorry that happened! :(
:( it worked for me, took 30 minutes in pretty warm water but then I could see the skin start to show where the opening was, and then I could gently get the egg out and clean the prolapse. Mine looks so much better today, and the vent stayed inside so I'm praying my girl will be ok
@@LMCorvinus so glad it worked! Keep up the good work and praying too that she fully recovers!
I am a newbie at chickens. I am so sorry for that poor baby but I'm so glad yall are helping her! Thank you for sharing so we all can learn ❤
Thanks for watching and good luck with your gals!!
Gosh, I love how you both evolve yourselves with the health of your flock. Much love & respect to you! 💕 🐓🐓🐓
Thank you!!!
OB/GYN for chickens! Good job, Doctor! 👍
Great job! The only thing I would have done different would have been to only given her electrolytes for a couple days and then add an easy to digest protein. Why? Because her body would heal faster through autophagy and the veg and fruit fiber would be harder on her digestive track. IMHO. I've fed my girls a slightly scrambled egg for recovery and it does wonders. Keep up the good work.
Great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Wow I am learning so much from you guys! Many chickens will be saved from this video thank you for what you do! I will pass this along to my farmer friends
I am fairly new to chicken keeping (Last March was my 1 year anniv.). When my chickens were injured from neighbor's dog attack, I took two of the most damaged chickens into my guest bathroom to treat them. Not knowing anything, I just did what my chinese grandma used to do: make a raw egg drink. I fed these 2 hens yolk mixed with honey and apple cider vinegar for a week in the bathroom and then returned them to the coop. They lost a lot of feathers from the attack and reading all the articles about molting, I thought it would take 6-8 weeks for them to recover their feathers. I was surprised they grew their feathers within 2 weeks. One of them broke her right wing and I banded it to stabilize it while recovering. That too seemed to heal fast, she was so impatient that she picked on the band loose. I tried to band her again and she took it off and then I saw her jump up to roost and that's when I realized her wing was healed enough.
@@d.a.tsun5104 wow, great job! And thanks for sharing! Love the raw egg drink idea and I bet that would be super nourishing and healing for chickens. Thanks for watching and all the best to you and your chickens!
@@thecompassionsquad thank you! 😊
I love all animals , but I like chickens alot to take care as pet.thank you so much helping her to pass the egg and saving her life🙏🐓
Chickens are pretty great! Thanks for watching!
I was about to comment about the Epsom salts! It also works if cows get a prolapse. You sprinkle salt on it and it goes back in.
Oh that’s good to know about cows too! Although, I hope we never have to try it!!
Doesn’t the salt burn though if you get it on the exposed organ?
Miss Buff was so good about the whole ordeal, my chickens are always wanting to get down if I loosen my grip on them. Hope she had a full recovery?
She was! But we were also able to edit out the time or two she got startled during the process 😊. Unfortunately her prolapse was a really bad one from the start and she just wasn’t able to bounce back 😕. But we learned a ton in the process and will be much more informed and prepared if it happens again. Let’s hope it doesn’t! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for posting!
You're welcome!
You are guys amazing ♡♡♡♡♡
You’d do the same thing! :)
Hello Jim and Jewell. thank you for sharing. very lucky hen. 💕NonnaGrace 🐓
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for your video! We are new at this and getting chickens! and one of ours prolapsed I didn't know quite what to do so I lightly put my finger and pushed back up. as you guys did, I'm afraid that it'll happen again we did worm bath and he hasn't had any prolapse sense. Praying that he will have a bowl🙏
You’re welcome!! Hope your hen pulls through! 🙏
Im just seeing this video.. it is so sweet to see you help her! I love my chickens! How did she do later in? I pray she got OK! 🙏 🙏🙏
awesome you got it back in i wasnt able to but mine was a young pullet i tried and tried nothing helped at all i tried for days and days . i ended up losing her i hated to but i didnt want her suffering either. every time mine needed to poo everything came right back out it was horrible i felt so bad for my girl but she was also young idk if that makes a diffrence or not
Ugh! I'm so sorry that happened. So hard to see them suffer.
It's reassuring to see this video, even the graphic stuff. It makes me less hesitant to get in there and manipulate the tissue, should need arise. Years ago, my vet told me that calcium and deficiency can make a bird (or reptile) more susceptible to egg bind. She recommended mineral supplements and more leafy greens.
Thanks for sharing and watching!!
Awesome video, so helpful. Thank you for sharing.
You bet! Thanks for watching!
Thank you. Very informative.
Thanks for watching!
am heartbroken coz i was listening advice to put my pet chicken in warm water with magnesium but i didnt know she is not just egg bound she had an infection that was causing her to be egg bound...I wish i knew this before i put her in warm water twice,after second time she started to shake for maby 20 mins...i run to a vet but shw died after i got there...now i am blaming myself for her death ...Never ever put her in warm water or use drier if you heavent check if she have high temperature already...i can not tell you how sad i am...dont do this mistake
I’m so sorry that happened to your chicken! Thanks for sharing your experience!
im new to chicken raising👀 poor baby and shes so calm, tx for sharing. My chickens are crazy wild they might tear me apart if i tried that. How do u get them so tame. I got two old ones from Craigslist so maybe mine are just tempremental
Not all of our chickens are so calm. I think she knew that something was wrong so she was letting us help her. All the best with your chicken raising! :)
Thanks for this excellent video on this topic most chicken keepers will face in time.. good on you my Friend for the effort and intention to share what you've experienced and thank You. "If you love something give it away" Conner Mcgreggor
Thanks for watching and the kind words!
I lost one of my golden comets last year to being egg bound. Before I realized what was wrong she was too far gone to save her.
So sorry that happened to you! :(
You guys are awesome. God in His Holy Spirit is guiding you all the way. You guys are our future. Thank you
Thanks so much 😊❤️
Thanks for sharing
You’re welcome! Glad it’s helpful!
My girl is super swollen... She is egg bound terribly for several days now, and I'm afraid she will develop a prolaspsed vent too :(
So sorry to hear this! I know how hard and helpless it can feel. But hope you can find a way to help her. Thanks for watching!
I have one prolapse now I’m worried there’s an egg stuck so I’ll check that. I pushed the prolapse back in it wasn’t too bad then I put calendula salve all over.
Ugh! I'm sorry you're going through this! Hope she heals and you get the egg if it's stuck!
Thankfully she’s been doing good, I’ve checked her this week daily and no prolapse anymore so it was very mild but I’ll monitor her for another week or so.
Did the chicken survive? Did she prolapse again?
Unfortunately she didn't :(. It was too bad of a prolapse by the time we caught it.
if it happens once does that mean the chicken will be prone to this condition through out its lifetime?
It can. From what we’ve heard of if the prolapse doesn’t correct and stay as it should be within the first few days to week, the chicken will likely not make it. But, we’ve heard lots of stories of chickens recovering and going on to be normal, healthy egg laying hens. Thanks for watching!
@@FromScratchFarmstead so how is she doing now?
@@ellenrobisonfrost9717 unfortunately our gal didn't make it 😕. Her prolapse was very severe from when we first discovered it and it just kept recurring. The best prevention is closely monitoring your flock and trying to catch and treat things early. Thanks for watching!
💁♂️ Would epsom salt bath help? Or iodine? 🤷♂️ Update on her please. 🙏
They certainly could... we tried the magnesium flakes bath a few times which is similar to Epsom salts. Unfortunately, her prolapse was too severe by the time we found her 😕. The prolapse kept recurring and we ended up making the difficult decision to cull her to spare the longterm suffering. Thanks for watching!
Did she live?
Unfortunately she didn't end up making it. Her prolapse had gotten to bad before it was detected. Thanks for watching!
Good 👍💕
Thanks for watching!
How likely is this to happen?
We've been keeping chickens for a decade and this is our only experience with it so it's pretty rare but does happen.
@@FromScratchFarmstead great thanks❤️
I tried this with no success will a vet do this ?
I’m so sorry to hear you’re going through this. It’s a tough thing to have happen. You can certainly check with a vet. When we researched it we read that most vets will not attempt it and will recommend euthanizing it, as sad as that sounds. Hope you can find a way to help your gal!
I'll try again.
Same here, and it's a vet that's specialized in poultry, only does birds. My chicken has an egg bound prolapse, it doesn't want to stay in if I push it back, it's getting worse every day, the tissue becomes hard, it dies of I think 😢. The vet can't do anything because if she lays an egg, it will just not work
@@jasminevervaeke6251 Oh my, so sorry you've gone through this as well. Sounds like you're doing all you can! We have not tried this yet, so we can't confirm if there's any legitimacy to it or not, but we recently heard from someone that pouring sugar on a prolapse may help it suck back in. May be something to try for someone out there looking for a last resort.
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Why didn't you soak her in Epsom salts? Every video I've seen so far says to soak for 20 mins (getting her bottom end under the water) and feed her calcium. (Apparently, she's lacking in calcium if she's egg bound.) I would never (not on the 1st night) risk killing a chicken by trying to remove the egg if there's a chance she can do it herself. But I'm not there so maybe it was more dire than I imagine.
The videos I watched said that if your chicken has a dirty backend and is walking funny and looking a bit lethargic, she's egg bound and to soak her for 20 mins a day in warm Epsom salts until she passes the egg...and to put her in her own covered spot where other chickens can't get to her.
Thanks for watching! We only had magnesium flakes on hand but just like epsom salts, they provide the calming magnesium. I think we didn't notice it right away in this case (we have 50+ chickens) so by the time we did notice, action needed to be taken quickly.
All you did was show the problems. Why didn’t you show how the poor chicken recovered, or either died. Biggest question is: WHAT HAPPENED??????
Unfortunately, this chicken didn't make it. We tried so hard to reverse the prolapse but it was just beyond that point. It taught us a lot for the future! Thanks for watching!
To much taking from the person filming and she needed to get allot closer With the camera you need to just let one person do the talking and one with camera
Appreciate the feedback! We typically do a bit more planning out than this video allowed for. Thanks for watching!
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