Hen with hard frozen poop on & inside vent!

[Eggcessive]

I just read on another thread that you had to put her down. Sorry for your loss.

 

[Chelseyb123]

Thank you. Yes sadly I had to put her down after a month of trying to recover her from this. I thought she was getting better but she had lost the ability to really push out her waste. Even after a good soaking an cleaning she would poop a really big nasty one and than it would just build all back up. It would of been done sooner but I had to get over the fact that she's my pet an im attached and don't wanna hurt her he. To she's my pet an i need to put her in a better place because he vent will never be the same. But I think I've gotten over the whole killing thing. Which is good. So if it has to be done ill be ready an will do it much sooner when needed. Thank you again. At least I have one of her chicks. Looks an acts just like her.

 

[Dragon Lady]

Thankyou for this thread, I discovered my 6 red sex links had taken to pecking each others vents, 3 of them were bleeding. I seperated them, cleaned them up the best I could and sprayed all six bottoms with blu-kote. after a couple of days I was able to re-introduce 2 back with the others, but had to keep the other one seperated.
Poop accumulated on her vent and the feathers underneath it.
I tried for several days, it was hard for her to poop, and with freezing temperatures here in Atlantic Canada, I finally realised that i wasnt dealing with frozen poop, but instead the flesh was necrotic and now she had frost bite under her vent going down where the poop was sticking to her.
We just culled her, I feel that I did my best for, I guess my instincts were correct that the outcome wasnt going to be good for her becasue she couldn’t poop properly.
I’m posting this so that it will help someone else that may find themselves in this situation.

 

[Eggcessive]

Thankyou for this thread, I discovered my 6 red sex links had taken to pecking each others vents, 3 of them were bleeding. I seperated them, cleaned them up the best I could and sprayed all six bottoms with blu-kote. after a couple of days I was able to re-introduce 2 back with the others, but had to keep the other one seperated.
Poop accumulated on her vent and the feathers underneath it.
I tried for several days, it was hard for her to poop, and with freezing temperatures here in Atlantic Canada, I finally realised that i wasnt dealing with frozen poop, but instead the flesh was necrotic and now she had frost bite under her vent going down where the poop was sticking to her.
We just culled her, I feel that I did my best for, I guess my instincts were correct that the outcome wasnt going to be good for her becasue she couldn’t poop properly.
I’m posting this so that it will help someone else that may find themselves in this situation.

Sorry for your loss.