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FieldsofThyme
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Heather B
True Blue Farmgirl
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Heather
Longmont
Colorado
USA
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 Posted - Jun 04 2010 : 4:57:00 PM
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You need to seperate her from the other hens. They will peck at her hiney and make it worse. Once you clean the prolapse and reinsert. Next you need her to stop laying so she has time to heal or everytime she lays she can prolapse again. Keep her away from light and reduce her food, this will send her into an early molt and she will stop laying. Worst case if she can't keep from prolapsing you may have to consider putting her down or in the stew pot.
Good Luck, I just went through this.
Heather
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
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Posted - Jun 04 2010 : 5:02:50 PM
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Thanks! She is up walking around now, where as before she just sat. She's acting better, but I can't separate her until morning. I don't have a secure pen and a raccoon went after our barn cats (their food) when it found it could not get in the chicken feed. I'm saying a prayer that the others go in their roosts for the night, and early morning I'll let them out and keep her inside (darker light).
What a day this has been. I guess we need to have a back-up pen for times such as this.
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msdoolittle
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Amanda
East Texas
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Posted - Jun 06 2010 : 6:17:57 PM
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Hope she's doing better! I had my turkey hen prolapse, didn't know it till the next morning, and the chickens had pecked it. Well, I ended up butchering the turkeys that day. Hopefully, you can reinsert with prolapse (you can use KY jelly to lubricate), and hopefully, she'll stop laying long enough for it to stay in. If it becomes a reoccuring problem, well, it's just one of those situations a farm girl finds herself in sometimes :0(
Hope all is going well.
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Barnyard Buddies: One of our hens has prolapse |
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One of our hens has prolapse
