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Ha ha, yes, I have 5 dogs and they all know they will be out on the street if they ever hurt one of my chickies. I posted a video about Butchie in the other thread with some questions. But I thought you might like this pic of Cleo looking after Butchie

Yep, Cleo is very special. No matter what, every day at 4:30 pm exactly, she comes by to chat with me. The Acidified Copper Sulfate seems to be the best remedy for Butchie. Today is day 3 of ACS treatment and the crop has been clear the past two mornings. I'm using the ACS very carefully...

Thank you for replying. What a roller coaster the past few days were with Butchie. I kept her out if the grass yesterday and only gave her some boiled egg. She slept most of the day, but she was breathing easy and the rest seemed to help. She's drinking water with Acidified copper sulphate --...

Butchie update! For anyone with a chick with vent gleet or crop issues -- my goodness, please be careful what she eats! So after my last post here in early February, I carefully administered another round of ACS and Butchie improved -- a lot this time! The distension around her vent went down...

I've searched and can't find any conclusive information about it. It doesn't look like any of the pictures that turned up of necrosis. Butchie's skin looks more bruised, like a muscle pull. I don't know. Maybe there was bruising all that time she was straining to defecate. I'll just keep...

Here's a pic of the skin around her back end. It's purplish greenish not right around the vent, but more in between her belly and vent.

Butchie update! Well, she's still with us and seems to still be improving little by little. Her poop is still yellowish and gunky, but much better than the white water she was pooping before. At least it has solids. She eats well and doesn't drink excessive water anymore. She's off her roost...

Cleo is amazing. It's like she was never sick. Her only problem is a persistent bumble she's had forever. Every two months or so we excuse the scab and take out a kernel-- that's why she's wearing a "shoe" here. But we keep it from getting too bad although we've never been able to get rid of it...

Well, after 7 days of acidified copper sulphate and then a week with probiotic water, Butchie still has runny poo. Sigh. But she has improved in other ways. There's no more white gunk stuck to her vent area. She doesn't have a cheesy smell anymore. I've been treating the white flaky fungus on...

I will do that. Have you used ACS to good result? I'm being extremely careful about measuring the dosage, there are so many warnings about toxicity on the internet, I'm a little nervous about it. But I've also read it has been effective for cases like Butchie's... Will update in a week or so...

Hello there. Butchie update. After two weeks of showing some improvement, Butchie has diarrhea and pasted vent again. I seriously don't think it can be worms, I've dewormed her twice with Albendazol over two weeks, following dosage exactly. Recently I finally located Acidified Copper sulphate...

Sorry it was a typo. I meant animal feed GRADE molasses. It's basically unsulphured blackstrap. Here they sell it in 5 liter tanks at the animal feed stores because people use it for their cows and horses too

Hey folks, so here's an update on Butchie. After a week of aggressive treatment (Amprolium for possible cocci, Fendendazol for worms, and Clotrimazole 2% for yeast), she is making remarkable improvements. We live in a remote forest in Ecuador. No fecal tests here for chickens, so when general...

A little better. I started her Amprolium yesterday in case she has cocci too. And it seems to be helping. It's touch and go. Thank you so much for asking.

Hi, unfortunately my partner found the copper sulphate used as a fungicide for plants, but not the acidified type I'm looking for. I'll look for it myself when I go to town over the weekend. I'm going to proceed with the flush and treat with Clotrimazole syringed twice a day and around her...

Or should I just go with the copper sulphate if I can get it?

Thank you! I have a Clotrimazole cream. It has .04g of dexamethasone (a steroid added to it). Do you think that's ok? I put a little bit on her face two days ago, and it's helping the crustyness. So I'm going to give her a flush, then try feeding her the cream 2x a day and put it on her vent...

Hi. Thank you for the response. I dewormed the flock about a month ago with Flubenvent and repeated a week later. I may try again, some eggs may have hatched and reinfested her. I think the white crusty patches and pasty butt are definitely yeast or fungal related, but it could be worms causing...