![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/back_home_and_looking_good.jpg\")
<\/a>She was looking like her usual self<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/a_bit_blurred_but_this_was_how_rustys_vent_looked_when_first_back_home.jpg\")
<\/a>A bit blurred but this was how Rusty’s vent looked when I first got her home<\/p><\/div>\n
She did an enormous poop which was like a broody poop. There was no poop in the cat box so she must have been holding it all afternoon.<\/p>\n
She had a scratch in the soil and then a preen and some pellets so everything seemed normal. Then she went to the nest box.\u00a0I thought that if she wanted to sit as if broody that would be fine but\u00a0she was pulsing like she was pushing again. I worried that if she thinks she needs to lay she will push out the prolapse again. I decided to lift her from the nest box and close them.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/she_then_settled_back_in_the_nest_box.jpg\")
<\/a>She was settled back in the nest box<\/p><\/div>\n
I lifted her out and inspected her and this is how she looked.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/this_was_how_she_was_before_bedtime.jpg\")
<\/a>This was how she was before bedtime<\/p><\/div>\n
I was dismayed to find that she has pushed out the prolapse again and is also mucky once more.<\/p>\n
I am worried now that she will keep pushing it out. I don’t know what to do next. I think that tomorrow I will try bathing her which I have read helps as well as cleaning her. I read that honey can be used and David said Terry “The Hen Cam” used it but I don’t know what type of honey or what I am supposed do with it. I have looked at Terry’s archives and can’t find it so in desperation I have e-mailed her and asked for her advice.<\/p>\n
I will update again tomorrow. I am\u00a0so worried but I am not ready to give up on her and will do whatever I can to try to fix this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I rang the vets at four thirty to see if Rusty was ready for collection as they hadn’t contacted me. I was told she was ready for collection so I went to get her. When I arrived the vet had … Continue reading