prolapse

[kirkcudbright]

And just to keep things from getting too dull, we found one of the hens to have a prolapsed vent (as well as shit all over her belly and tail feathers). Standard procedure AIUI is to clean her up, apply Preparation H to bring down the swelling, and try to coax the prolapsed tissue back inside. We're also keeping her in the house so we can monitor/treat her until it clears up. Just checked on her after a couple hours, and she's prolapsed again, sigh.

[ETA 6/21: After 2 days of pushing the prolapse back inside, she's fine, but still a bit poopy. No idea why it happened, but it's a reminder to check your chickens regularly.]

Comments

[gosling.livejournal.com]

You are really not having the most fabulous couple of days, are you? *hug*

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh argh. I hope you guys (and she) are having a better day today.

Somewhat related, if you folks still have more eggs than you can gracefully use, you might want to consider bringing them to the Beg of Summer party. I daresay that with Baitcon the next weekend, there will be lots of people very happy to take on eggses for this week's ice cream experiments. whuffle would probably want them especially...