I am repeating some of what I have said in the comments (sorry), but wanted to it put here for those who may not have read the comments.
I put Rusty in the run at lunch time to poop and exercise. What I wasn’t expecting was for her to promptly have a dust bath. On the positive side this means she is feeling a bit better but it also meant that the dust stuck to the honey! I was a bit worried about this and e-mailed Terry to ask if it was okay to leave her like that. Terry, bless her, replied quickly and said not to worry about the dust as long as the honey isn’t attracting insects.
Rusty preened and perched up with Freckles. She didn’t go to the nest box as I had expected her to, which I think is good, because she isn’t wanting to push and the prolapse has stayed in place.
I put Rusty in the run at lunch time.
The next minute she was having a dust bath
Her bottom now has dust stuck to the honey
She is looking more herself
Here she is at the end of the day
I have decided that in the morning I will bath her again to get rid of the dust. I will leave her in the cat box to dry for the morning, after towel drying her as best I can, with water and a little corn and a chopped grape once more. This will stop her eating pellets and should stop her from egg laying.
At lunch time I will return her to the run again and all being well I will leave her to it. As long as the prolapse stays in place I think she will be better off in the run and I hope that she will return to normal. I am feeling more hopeful now than I was this morning. I am still keeping everything crossed.
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It’s really as good as you could have hoped yesterday. Another positive is her stance: she is not presenting as a chicken in difficulty. Fingers crossed.
It is as you say as good as I could have hoped after yesterday. That final shot, I wanted to show the current state of her bottom and the look in her eye is saying “for goodness sake, what now! Do you have to keep sneaking behind me for pesky photos!” It is her haughty look. But I am glad to see it though. I just hope we can keep making progress.
Awe, poor baby. I’m sure the dirty bottom is the least of her concerns. Get her healed up quickly. She does look better in those bottom photos. A bath must have felt so good.
She is getting another bath in the morning to get that bottom cleaned up again. You are right though it is more important that the prolapse stays in than the state of her bottom. Apparently it makes it difficult to poop which is why she is getting so messy.
That’s good that it’s staying in Carol 🙂 xx
Yes, that’s what I thought. As long as it stays in we are in with a chance xx
Good news,lets hope she is on the mend now.
I really hope so.
Great news. It seems that honey is the magic lotion.
I read about honey on my search but I didn’t really believe it. Then Terry recommended it and she and has over twenty years of experience with chickens. There isn’t much Terry doesn’t know about chickens and I totally trust her advice.