text: Entrails | Air an Lot
  Weasel or other Polecats according to http://www.urbanchickenpodcast.com/ucp-episode-041/
  posted January 27, 2015 at 1:50 am by Cal Reply
  I'd be very very surprised if this was the case. I had been in the hen house for around 90 mins, it would be a brave polecat that would appear in there with me, plus none of the birds were spooked, including the sick one!
  posted January 27, 2015 at 6:33 am by sweenyness in reply to CalReply
  Being a Gastroenterologist this is fascinating! I can certainly say that it does not happen in humans to this extent. There must have been some physical damage to the back passage, possibly from the other hens
  posted January 27, 2015 at 7:15 am by Ingvar Reply
  The only time I've seen similar damage was when I accidentally ran over a hen with my car, then everything burst out the rear. This was similar. Not very nice!
  posted January 27, 2015 at 7:19 am by sweenyness in reply to IngvarReply
  This was more than likely done when the hen was trying to lay her egg, the entrails being pushed into let's call it the egg- laying canal through a weakened?/ less elastic and damaged? area of the internal side wall of the vent – a bit like a hernia that just kept on going! Many moons ago, as a boy, I kept show pigeons and something more or less identical happened to one of them. Mainly because I hadn't the guts! to put it down myself and having invested several weeks of pocket money in this bird, I asked the vet. In an effort to encourage me / professional interest?, he carried out a free PM and found that the loop of gut originated through the side wall of the rear passage about an inch inside. He mentioned the above as possible reasons also mentioned that the initial damage may have been caused by an extra bit of shell with a sharp edge from another previous broken egg being stuck to the one she was trying to lay. Once a nick was there, the pressures of egg- birth would take over and she would basically push herself inside out until she felt relief, as if she had laid an egg! Once again, not very nice!
  However, 55 or so years later, I can still hear the vet trying to make me feel better by saying,"Ach well, I wouldn't worry about it, at least it's not contagious!"
  I agree that it won't be down to polecats, which tend to grip the hens at the back of the skull and kill at least five or six at a go. (Personal experience again, I'm afraid.)
  posted January 28, 2015 at 8:59 am by Stuart Collier Reply
  Chunna mi-fhin rud gu math coltach ris a-seo a bhon-uiridh le caora – bha prolapse aig a chaora aig am nan uan, is an uairsin bha a caolan air a slaodadh air a culaibh, na starragan as a deidh. Gu math mi-chaileir – chanainn gur e deagh thomhais a th'aig an fhear os mo chionn le ugh briste a reubadh a broinn na circe