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[skive]

Hello all,

I am Sharona the mother hen to 4 crazy chickens, Ethel, Deidre, Eunice and Doris..... I am wondering if someone could please help with a vent related problem..... Whilst having my dinner the other my little feathered friends where watching us through the window. I noticed when Doris turned around her fluffy feather around her bottom seemed matted and her vent look sore and swollen..... Me and my husband washed her vent but the problem persisted..... I think it may be a prolapse, the problem is I cant separate her as I dont where I could put her.... and I am not ure what to feed her to help rectify the problem....any advice would be greatly received

 

Thanks

Sharona

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Welcome to the forum, Sharona . Sorry your first post has had to be about a problem . Are you sure it's a prolapse and not another hen pecking at her bottom and making it sore? Is anything protruding?

[skive]

It looks like a pink ring.... not to be vile but it looks like when you puked your lips

[Ain't Nobody Here]

That sounds like a normal vent to me (hard to be sure without a photo though!) It should be pink and pulsating ( ). Does it look like feathers are missing?

[skive]

no the feathers are matted not bald..... The thing is it doesnt look like the other chickens vent and it does look a lot larger / swollen....I have tried asking her whats wrong but she doesnt answer

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I've no experience of prolapses but a quick search for prolapses brings up a few topics you could have a read through .

[Egluntyne]

If it was a prolapse, the other hens would be pecking at it in all likelihood.

 

Any chance of a photo so that we can hazard a guess at what is going on?

 

Welcome to the forum.