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I noticed one of our mature chickens (with a history of soft eggs) has a prolapsed vent yesterday. It's moist & red at present. I washed it with soapy water & applied antiseptic cream. I then reinserted it with two fingers up to my second knuckle, it went in ok, no distress, but the chicken was contracting & as soon as my fingers came out, it prolapsed again within 30sec. We've isolated it in a dark shed, and I'll try again today. I've ordered some calcium supplement for the water.

This morning, chicken looks well, it's prolapsed, covered in poo. I'll repeat yesterday's treatment.

Anyone any experience or other advice on this? We've never had it occur before.

Thanks.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 7:52 am
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We had this with one of our chooks. Had three, named them all as it was all a bit of a novelty. One for me, one for my wife, one for our son.

My wife rang me at work one day to day she'd found blood on the deck and then she'd spotted No1 child's chook with its innards dragging on the floor behind it. It had basically pushed too hard trying to get her first egg out.

She took it to the vet to see if it could be saved. He said he could try to sew it up but there'd be a better than average chance of it happening again the next day. It got sent to the big coop in the sky instead.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 8:04 am
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Ours has only prolapsed it's vent so far, it's sticking out about 35mm, nothing else internal is external at present.

Google says it's serious, may need dispatching, but it can be reversible too, might take a few days. 🤞


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 8:11 am
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Im done with STW today, nothing is going to beat that OP.

ps, im sorry for your chicken.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 8:49 am
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I then reinserted it with two fingers up to my second knuckle, it went in ok

🤞


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 8:50 am
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Can't believe this hasn't got more traction if only for the

You did what?

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Posted : 10/05/2019 9:58 am
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Err..healing vibes to your chook.

But was it finger-lickin' good?


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 10:05 am
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See, I read the title and with my left hand over my eyes I clicked not really knowing what to expect. What's a Chicken Vent? Is it a vent in a meat processing factory, is it a mechanical device that perhaps is just called a 'chicken vent'. Of all things I wondered could be called a chicken vent, I never thought it would be a part of a actual chicken, but, as they say, you lives and learns.

So Qwerty's poor chicken is poorly and it doesn't seem very nice, he's fingered it (god I hope gloves were involved) but it doesn't seem to have helped.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 10:07 am
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Google says it’s serious, may need [s] Di [/s] spatching

Ftfy


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 10:11 am
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Keep your cock under control for a while.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 10:31 am
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I am both amused and disgusted.
Thank you.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 11:14 am
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Prolapsed chicken vent would be a great name for a heavy metal band.

EDIT: ah, I see this has already been suggested 🙂


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 11:16 am
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Healing vibes to the Chicken.

Can't help thinking that would be an awesome name for a band though.....


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 11:19 am
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The vent is the multipurpose exit of a bird. The arsegina, basically.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 11:22 am
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Good luck. Not sure how to help keep it in. I have just replaced a prolapsed uterus on a sheep. Now that is fun. About 2 foot of dirty inside out innards to get back inside without tearing it to bits. No fun at all, but she is still alive 3 days later. With a sheep it is possible to truss them with a harness along the spine which prevents them from straining. With a chicken that lays an egg daily I guess that is not practical, even if it were possible.

Just remembered we had a duck with a prolapsed vent a couple of weeks back and Mrs WF popped it back in and it has stayed in ever since. So there could be some hope. Keep the chicken isolated and stress free for a couple of days and see if it calms down. Might be able to get an anti-inflammatory for them like Metacam. Worth asking a vet.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 11:30 am
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Mate of mine has an ex-wife who is a serious animal lover. Had some battery rescue hens and this happened to one of them after a good while of laying. She paid for months, (maybe over a year) for it to have hormone injections to prevent it laying. 🙄 Cost a bloody fortune, he just wanted it put down, but she wasn't having it.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 12:25 pm
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Had similar ongoing withone of ours. Sadly had to put her out her mysery the other day. Seems some hens are just prone to it.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 12:25 pm
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Everytime welshfarmer posts something like that I have to wonder WTF he did wrong in a previous life.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 12:32 pm
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The vent is the multipurpose exit of a bird. The arsegina, basically.

© David Attenborough?


 
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Posted : 10/05/2019 12:41 pm
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Google says it’s serious, may need Di spatching

Ftfy

Brilliant.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 12:48 pm
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Prolapsed Chicken Vent.
I’ve got both their albums.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 1:12 pm
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In the words of John Davidson

”I’m a chicken fu••er”


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 1:24 pm
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Tried to reinsert this morning & just before lunch, but it just keeps popping back out.

Spoke with the lady who we brought out chooks from, who knows all thinks poultry, her advice was to leave it now as it's a stubborn prolapse, keep the antiseptic cream going, spray with another, isolate in the dark, corn only & hopefully within a week we may see some progress, could take 2 or 3 to completely heal. If she deteriorates, then she have to be killed.

So fingers crossed.

Is this karma in action? when I last pulled the wish bone on our Sunday roast I thought "I hope I get to finger some pretty chick" 🤔


 
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Everytime welshfarmer posts something like that I have to wonder WTF he did wrong in a previous life.

People like welshfarmer stick their fingers hands and arms where most of us would be too squeamish to in order that we can enjoy a nice roast on a Sunday. More power to his elbow, erm, or something.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 1:37 pm
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I thought this was going to be about a recently unearthed album by The Fall.

Is disappointed.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 1:51 pm
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Everytime welshfarmer posts something like that I have to wonder WTF he did wrong in a previous life.

I had to correct a huge spreadsheet someone had messed up today. I'm quite envious of someone who gets to repair broken sheep.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 2:12 pm
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who is a serious animal lover.

no love for comedic animals though? this could open up a whole new way of classifying species...


 
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Just remembered we had a duck with a prolapsed vent a couple of weeks back and Mrs WF popped it back in and it has stayed in ever since

I bet she bound it with something, duck' tape maybe?


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 2:26 pm
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I assumed the title was the name of a gravel bike.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 2:28 pm
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STW the gift that keeps on giving!


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 2:31 pm
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I assumed someone had hacked my 3 random word STW password!


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 2:47 pm
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qwerty, my aunt is currently laid up with a prolapsed Anus, am I able to pass her your details?, it may require a fist in her case though!


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 2:48 pm
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minley1 - not so much as crossed the line as gone so far past that it's a barely visible mark near the horizon.


 
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my aunt is currently laid up with a prolapsed Anus, am I able to pass her your details?,


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 3:26 pm
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minley1 – not so much as crossed the line as gone so far past that it’s a barely visible mark near the horizon.

indeed - dating ads belong in the classifieds


 
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@minley

How close are you to your aunt to even know that. If my aunt had similar I'm sure my mum would describe it as 'a problem "down there" ' or similar, not in full detail!

LOL at arsegina though. Reminds me of a mate broaching the subject of his wife's recent forceps delivered baby....... 'you know how you have a kitchen, and a dining room, and a wall between the?'

'Yep'

'We've got a kitchen-diner currently'


 
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Sorry about your bird OP, but my eyes are stinging after reading the last few replies.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 3:45 pm
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I checked this out on What Three Words mapping. The closest I could find was Collapsed Chicken Vent which is a 3m by 3m grid on the Norway / Swedish border, nearest town Drevsjø


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 4:15 pm
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my aunt is currently laid up with a prolapsed Anus, am I able to pass her your details?,

It's about all she can pass, I've heard.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 4:25 pm
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Sounds like minleys aunt has been on the receiving end of a pink sock!


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 4:38 pm
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This thread will go down in the anals of STW history along with the Picolax thread!


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 4:57 pm
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Apparently the Colonel has been on asking if he can dip it in his herbs and spices?


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 5:08 pm
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I don’t wish for any aspersions to be cast about my Aunts anus, though I am led to believe it occurred in some sort of Segway related incident.
qwerty, hope you sort your Chicken vent issue, I do like a boiled egg, so I’m rooting for the old girl.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 5:09 pm
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Yep, been there. Ends with a big log and an axe.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 5:11 pm
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Does the prolapsed anus also involves a big log or chopper too?


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 5:16 pm
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I am led to believe it occurred in some sort of Segway related incident.

Hold it there, chap. No way are you going to leave that as the explanation without unravelling it a bit further.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 5:54 pm
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Ends with a big log

Starts with a big log.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 6:07 pm
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Cloaca


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 6:52 pm
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That's a lovely name for a chicken. Or an auntie.


 
Posted : 10/05/2019 6:58 pm
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I'd start researching now.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/chicken-curry

We had this on one of our chickens when I was a teen. I was on exam leave so dispatched the bird during the day with my dad. After finishing his curry that evening, my brother was a bit shocked by the meat source and didn't eat chicken for months after...


 
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I think we should get a load of tshirts with Arsegina printed on them


 
Posted : 11/05/2019 12:55 am
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I thought it was the name of a new On One steel frame


 
Posted : 11/05/2019 9:00 am
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This is a disgusting but funny thread. I've been waiting to view it on my phony as I've been to scared to check from my work laptop!


 
Posted : 11/05/2019 10:20 am
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am led to believe it occurred in some sort of segway related incident.

I love a good segue disaster.


 
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Finally.... we have inversion! 👌


 
Posted : 17/05/2019 4:22 pm
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Finally…. we have inversion

?

Less exciting for the chicken I assume. Though it appears to have a foot for a head, which probably explains its position.


 
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Maybe retraction of the under carriage might be a better analagy.


 
Posted : 17/05/2019 4:40 pm

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