I need help please.
I'm at my wits end.
A vet is not an option in my areas.
Scarlett has vent gleet. I'm positive it's vent gleet. She has had it for about a year. I couldn't catch her to treat her until recently. I have tried everything that I can think of and everything that my online chicken Facebook friends recommended. Even so far as to call and talk to Cackle Hatchery.
She acts fine except for the massive amounts of putrid discharge from her vent and she seems tired and she lays rotten smelling eggs. The eggs look perfectly normal inside and out. Her abdominal is pink but not hard and its not swollen or squishy.
She is a 2 year old mix like a easter egger.
She gets all flock pellets at 19 percent protein. Very rarely does she get treats like meal worms or cracked corn.
I separated her from the wild chickens that free ranged and never got caught to go into flock pens. She was in a pen with three others that showed symptoms of gleet. One has recovered and the other two are in a separate pen by them selves now to wait and see if they have healed.
She has been wormed and deloused months ago.
No signs of respiratory infection or illness of any kind except for the vent gleet.
I have tried
1) Nothing but unsweetened plain Greek yogurt for 1 day. Feed normally the second day. Nothing buy unsweetened plain Greek yogurt for a 2nd day. This made her feathers shiny.
2) Metronidazole 250mg tablet for 5 days mixed with mana probiotic gel. She perked up.
3)1 cup of Apple cider with the mother per gallon of water almost everyday. She drinks a lot of water.
4)Epson salt baths (3 times) Did nothing but traumatize her. Switched to daily showers instead.
5)Monistat for 7 days.
6)Iodine spray on her vent.
7) Baby diaper rash cream (its clear) on the pink side of her boom boom and abdominal.
8)Acidified Copper Sulfate in her drinking water for a week. I treated every bird I owned with it.
I don't know what else to do. Does any one have any suggestions or extreme methods of treatments? I'm about to buy the cat drops of Itraconazole and start giving her 10mg of that.
I will open mindedly listen to all ideas and suggestions.
I'm at my wits end.
A vet is not an option in my areas.
Scarlett has vent gleet. I'm positive it's vent gleet. She has had it for about a year. I couldn't catch her to treat her until recently. I have tried everything that I can think of and everything that my online chicken Facebook friends recommended. Even so far as to call and talk to Cackle Hatchery.
She acts fine except for the massive amounts of putrid discharge from her vent and she seems tired and she lays rotten smelling eggs. The eggs look perfectly normal inside and out. Her abdominal is pink but not hard and its not swollen or squishy.
She is a 2 year old mix like a easter egger.
She gets all flock pellets at 19 percent protein. Very rarely does she get treats like meal worms or cracked corn.
I separated her from the wild chickens that free ranged and never got caught to go into flock pens. She was in a pen with three others that showed symptoms of gleet. One has recovered and the other two are in a separate pen by them selves now to wait and see if they have healed.
She has been wormed and deloused months ago.
No signs of respiratory infection or illness of any kind except for the vent gleet.
I have tried
1) Nothing but unsweetened plain Greek yogurt for 1 day. Feed normally the second day. Nothing buy unsweetened plain Greek yogurt for a 2nd day. This made her feathers shiny.
2) Metronidazole 250mg tablet for 5 days mixed with mana probiotic gel. She perked up.
3)1 cup of Apple cider with the mother per gallon of water almost everyday. She drinks a lot of water.
4)Epson salt baths (3 times) Did nothing but traumatize her. Switched to daily showers instead.
5)Monistat for 7 days.
6)Iodine spray on her vent.
7) Baby diaper rash cream (its clear) on the pink side of her boom boom and abdominal.
8)Acidified Copper Sulfate in her drinking water for a week. I treated every bird I owned with it.
I don't know what else to do. Does any one have any suggestions or extreme methods of treatments? I'm about to buy the cat drops of Itraconazole and start giving her 10mg of that.
I will open mindedly listen to all ideas and suggestions.
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