BOOYAH FARM!!!: A dog gone tragedy, peach in full bloom, and chicken surgery

Well it's been a bad week around here, my dog killed a tree and I had to operate on one of my chickens today. At least the blooming Peach tree is looking great.

Here's my girl, while playing fetch today she ran over one of the newly planted plum trees and it broke off below the graft.

Dead Jim

The good thing? I looked at the root structure real close when I pulled the broken tree out. Do you see that big root to the right that's the tap root. It had been in the pot so long it hit the bottom of the pot and started growing back up. I new these were trees were crappy trees when I bought them. There's a good chance this tree would never had made it IDK. But I planted 3 more just like it so we'll see.

Here's the replacement a Burgundy Plum that I spent 26 dollars on. It's a nice looking bare root plum I cut it down to 24 inches The stick on the right is the part I cut off and stuck in the ground. I have officially banned the game of fetch in the backyard.

This next part is tough, I'm just going to cut and paste what I posted on a forum for some answers.

Today when I came home from work I started working on my to do list. While I was cleaning out my fish tanks I noticed something hanging off the backside of one of RIR girls, at first I thought it was just a turd, then I looked closer and noticed she had half an egg sticking out of her vent. "WTF" I grabbed her and took her inside and started soaking her in warm water. My wife came out and couldn't believe what she was seeing. The egg was stuck half way out, and the lining of her vent was also coming out. More or less the whole egg was outside her body but half of the egg was still in the lining, I believe the term is she was prolaxed. While soaking our girl the wife and I bounced ideas off each other about what to do, at first we thought to just break the egg but noticed the lining of her vent was actually stuck to the egg shell. Finally after 20 minutes of of trying to massage the egg out I decided something had to be done. I pulled out my pocket knife and as my wife held our girl I inserted the knife between the lining and the egg and gently worked the knife around the whole egg once this was done the egg popped right out and I pushed the lining back in. I was very careful with my knife and don't believe I cut any of her lining, I also pushed the lining of her vent back in, her vent lining is staying inside of her as of right now. I let her go back with the flock and they didn't even seem to notice, she walked around for about 30 minutes and then jumped into one of the nest boxes and is sleeping in the box as of right now. I don't know if I did the right thing but feel I did the best I could in the moment our girl was in alot of pain when I found her. If things don't work out I know what to do. Has this happened to any of you? And what should I do for her future care? She seems to be resting peacefully for now but I know there's another egg coming and there is know way that can be good for her. In the moment I didn't even think to take a pic but I found one on the internet I'll post in an attachment. Here's a pic of her resting the whole event was emotionally draining for my wife and I and it brought into focus that with chickens(or any animal) anything can happen at anytime.