Hello
Found one of my girls with a mucky looking butt yesterday morning, had a meeting and planned to clean her up on lunch. When I came back out I could see some fresh blood.
Separated her for an Epsom salt soak and really struggled to clean off the white liquid, once I did it looks as if there's a prolapse also.
Treatment so far:
Separated and kept in a dog crate with low lighting
Bathed area with Epsom salts twice so far
Used a paste of Hemorrhoid cream/sugar water on the prolapse
Also lubricated with Vaseline and tried to gently push it back in - the hen will not tolerate this at all and starts to struggle.
Added electrolytes to water and some colloidal silver.
(She is drinking quite a lot and the ground underneath her is constantly wet like she's leaking fluid, the fluid has a slightly bloody tint to it) There are still some droppings but they are small
I've got her on a corn only diet just now as I've read mixed things about giving layers pellets when discouraging laying
I've got some liquid calcium+ vit D arriving tomorrow
Is there anything else I can do? I'm open to suggestions or happy to hear if anything I've been doing is wrong
I also have pics of the area if required. Feeling absolutely awful that she's stuck in a crate suffering but absolutely don't want to risk her being back in with the others.
Thanks
Found one of my girls with a mucky looking butt yesterday morning, had a meeting and planned to clean her up on lunch. When I came back out I could see some fresh blood.
Separated her for an Epsom salt soak and really struggled to clean off the white liquid, once I did it looks as if there's a prolapse also.
Treatment so far:
Separated and kept in a dog crate with low lighting
Bathed area with Epsom salts twice so far
Used a paste of Hemorrhoid cream/sugar water on the prolapse
Also lubricated with Vaseline and tried to gently push it back in - the hen will not tolerate this at all and starts to struggle.
Added electrolytes to water and some colloidal silver.
(She is drinking quite a lot and the ground underneath her is constantly wet like she's leaking fluid, the fluid has a slightly bloody tint to it) There are still some droppings but they are small
I've got her on a corn only diet just now as I've read mixed things about giving layers pellets when discouraging laying
I've got some liquid calcium+ vit D arriving tomorrow
Is there anything else I can do? I'm open to suggestions or happy to hear if anything I've been doing is wrong
I also have pics of the area if required. Feeling absolutely awful that she's stuck in a crate suffering but absolutely don't want to risk her being back in with the others.
Thanks