First egg gone bad? [Graphic Pics]

[mangus580]

Well, I did another 'super' clean on her tonight. I got her to a point where I am sure her vent isnt blocked anymore... athough it appeared that its maybe scabbed a little around it.... and this was catching her soft poops, and building up.

I got her clean enough now, that while she was still in the tub, she tried pooping a couple times. real thin diameter, relatively hard.

She is still quite perky... although getting much more friendly by the day.

 

[mangus580]

Ok, so her problem isnt gone. It does appear now like she has 'cottage cheese' coming from her. It was hard to tell before because of the diarrhea mixed in.

Good news is, she is still active and has been enjoying spending the time with the goats!

 

[threehorses]

I'm wondering which way this should go - the yeast way, or the bacteria way.

On one hand, that could be bacterial issues with her digestive tract, on the other hand it could be a yeast issue.

Were she mine (since I can't see her) I think maybe I would give her a cleanse first - a digestive cleanse and see if that would help this weird discharge. a little mollasses (1/8 a teaspoon or so), a few teaspoons of applesauce, 1 tablespoon of yogurt, in something she likes - cooked oatmeal for example. The molasses will flush her system. The apple sauce pectin will cleanse, feed the bacteria, and they like it. The yogurt will replace good bacteria on the 'newly cleaned slate' of her digestive tract. The oatmeal - they just like, but it's also soothing.

I would do this *one time only* and see if it changes anything - continue after that with the yogurt daily, maybe apple cider vinegar in her water (1 tablespoon per gallon - it won't hurt the goats).

 

[hencrazy]

FYI - be careful with the peroxide - it actually slows healing. Good old soap and water is the best.

 

[Evilkitty162]

Give the other chickens a little bit of salt in the feed. it helps a lot.
I had like 20 RIRs that killed my 1 buff orpington!!!

I gave them salt in the feed and they stopped biting each other.

 

[threehorses]

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You know what's odd is that I had never really heard much about salt deficiencies causing pecking before this week. Not heard anyone use it in terms of "in real life" flocks anyway. I'm glad you brought this up.

Usually protein, crowding, etc come up. Thanks for sharing the salt experience with us.

How much did you use? Birds are sensitive to salt and I'd hate to see someone pouring it on and having a bad situation; maybe your dosage could help them.