It looks like there were feces in the abdominal cavity as you could see dark patches through the skin last night
Some of the intestines should be visible thru the skin, as shown below (pix of a hen with ascites) They would be visable and look thicker if something was putting pressure on them if there was an impaction preventing the feces from entering into the cloaca to be voided.
As to the pix that should the swollen yellow abdomen that was from prolonged, and not properly treated egg yolk peritonitis and the discolored skin contained yolk that was being excreted from the body thru the skin.
any member here who is interested in learning.
You can also add to the thread with pix's of the prolapse, and also some good pix's of what was passed.
As to prolapses, from personal experience, this will not be a deterrent to laying...but a bird is going to be more suseptable to prolapses. She is going to need additional care of good lighting and also some natural sources of calcium. You can look up on this site which foods (Nutrient lists) are high in calcium: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/ NOTE: most greens and veggies contain oxalic acids. These will bind useable calcium from foods. What you want to do is look for foods that have a higher calcium content than oxalic acid. The useable calcium is the difference between the two. Print out the following tables from both links:
Guinea Lynx ::Oxalic Acid in Selected Vegetables
Guinea Lynx :: Calcium Chart
Some of the intestines should be visible thru the skin, as shown below (pix of a hen with ascites) They would be visable and look thicker if something was putting pressure on them if there was an impaction preventing the feces from entering into the cloaca to be voided.
As to the pix that should the swollen yellow abdomen that was from prolonged, and not properly treated egg yolk peritonitis and the discolored skin contained yolk that was being excreted from the body thru the skin.
any member here who is interested in learning.
You can also add to the thread with pix's of the prolapse, and also some good pix's of what was passed.
As to prolapses, from personal experience, this will not be a deterrent to laying...but a bird is going to be more suseptable to prolapses. She is going to need additional care of good lighting and also some natural sources of calcium. You can look up on this site which foods (Nutrient lists) are high in calcium: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/ NOTE: most greens and veggies contain oxalic acids. These will bind useable calcium from foods. What you want to do is look for foods that have a higher calcium content than oxalic acid. The useable calcium is the difference between the two. Print out the following tables from both links:
Guinea Lynx ::Oxalic Acid in Selected Vegetables
Guinea Lynx :: Calcium Chart
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