EMERGENCY! HELP! Chicken with bloody vent.

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I did. She is in my mother's bathroom right now on a towel with a heater on her

 

[casportpony]

Does anyone in your family have a cell phone with a camera?

 

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Yes, but she is gone on a trip to the eye doctor with my little sister. I did more research on prolapsed vent, and this seems worse. It isn't just the vent tube, it almost looks like she is trying to poop her own organs

 

[Mrs J]

Yes, but she is gone on a trip to the eye doctor with my little sister. I did more research on prolapsed vent, and this seems worse. It isn't just the vent tube, it almost looks like she is trying to poop her own organs

Prolapse can look like that

I have just found this. Does it look like this? It is hard to advise without pictures.

 

[casportpony]

Yes, but she is gone on a trip to the eye doctor with my little sister. I did more research on prolapsed vent, and this seems worse. It isn't just the vent tube, it almost looks like she is trying to poop her own organs

When will they be back?

 

[azygous]

Read this and you'll get a better idea of what's happening to your hen. https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ng-from-vent-prolapse-oh-my-what-to-do.76124/

Prolapse is about as serious as it gets. Your hen likely had others peck at her prolapse and that's why she's been bleeding. Depending on the extent of the injury, it may heal or it may kill her.

The thing behind a prolapse is a blockage. It causes the hen to strain to try to clear it. This is what prolapse is. All the straining has pushed the cloaca out of the vent where it belongs. It won't go back in and stay until the blockage clears. To help clear the blockage, give her a calcium tablet right now. It can be Tums or a calcium pill, whatever you can lay hands on in a hurry. She needs it immediately. It will help her contractions to expel the blockage.

 

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Prolapse can look like that

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I have just found this. Does it look like this? It is hard to advise without pictures.

It does look like that only with more blood clots hanging around it and poop dribbling from the edges and it's about twice as big

 

[Mrs J]

It does look like that only with more blood clots hanging around it and poop dribbling from the edges and it's about twice as big

That is probably because the other chickens have been pecking at it. Azygous has given you great advice, I was going to suggest a calcium pill but I wasn’t confident enough to, in case her contracting made the prolapse worse. I think if you follow the advice of Azygous, your hen will pull through good luck and please update.

 

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I gave her a couple of pieces of a tums and put more in her water. She is still preening, checking her feet, investigating her surroundings, and trying to wander out of her crate as if nothing in the world was wrong. I hope that is a good sign.

 

[azygous]

She needs to have the whole Tums. Putting in water dilutes it too much for it to do any good. Get another Tums and break it in half, Pry open her beak and stick one half in, let her swallow, then stick the other half in. It takes a minimum of 500-600mg calcium to trigger adequate contractions. She will need more calcium in the morning if she still is in this condition.

Read the article I wrote and linked to. It gives instructions on how to care for the prolapse. It must not be allowed to dry out or she will die from it.