Fully resolving vent gleet??

[pigcoon]

I had another thread of the saga of my Gold Laced Wyandotte if you need history:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...e-prolapse-gleet.1377593/page-2#post-22719891

I cannot resolve the vent gleet (post prolapse) for her. Does anyone know how long it takes???

What's still happening is she just has this trickle of runny poop leaving her body throughout the day and night. Not a lot of volume.

Every morning and evening I clean her up with wipes, spray her with BluKote and she's good. 12 hours later, the trickle has built up again.

She is getting daily yogurt, daily probiotics, fresh food, evening free range. Her energy is great, she's eating and drinking.

It just won't fully resolve!! HELP

I don't want to be going out there in the winter still to clean her backside.

How can I jump start full recovery?

 

[Eggcessive]

It is best to stay with your original thread so that everyone who reads knows what has been suggested. Vent gleet is an infection that may require antifungal medicines given orally and cream applied to the vent area. Nustock cream in the horse aisle of feed stores is good to apply, and you can use Monistat cream 1/2 inch twice a day, given orally. Medistatin powder added to food is another common antifungal drug.
https://allbirdproducts.com/products/medistatin

 

[pigcoon]

Thanks Eggcessive. I just couldn't get much attention on that thread. It's kind of frustrating, I used to get so much help on this site, but it seems hard to come by these days.

Yes on the original thread it did mention that I had done those things for a couple of weeks. I used Miconozole for two weeks straight.

Thanks for your reply. The Medistatin looks like a different brand of the probiotics I've been giving for three weeks now.

 

[Eggcessive]

Medistatin is not a probiotic, but an antifungal drug, nystatin, one of the most used antifungals used in humans for thrush (candida or yeast infections.) This time of year with people buying new chicks and with so many people online, BYC is a bit overwhelmed with threads now. It helps to stick to one thread and keep updating it, asking for help or telling what you have done.

 

[pigcoon]

Oh, right, that's the one that's been out of stock for weeks now. I don't think it is available, I looked for that before.

Well thanks for your reply. I feel a little chastised by the admonishment about the thread. I understand there's a lot going on on the site, but also maybe no one knows what to do. It kinds of shuts people down to warn us about not starting a new thread.

I've been researching this problem for a month now, but my chicken seems to just not be getting better.

Now I don't know which thread to post to.....my old one or my new one. Or not at all....

 

[Eggcessive]

I am not chastising you, but just saying that it gets to be overwhelming here sometimes when we have to look through multiple threads for all of the info. If someone answers your thread they will get a notification that there are new posts, and most people will look at them. We may not be online for awhile, but some other person may answer you. The people here who answer threads are just like you and me, chicken owners. No one gets paid to read or help, it is just one person offering personal experience or recommending what another has done. Sorry that the Medistatin is sold out. You might try another online seller, or contact a vet for Nystatin the human version.

 

[pigcoon]

I will try that, I wasn't able to find it anywhere when this first began. I will try again.

And I am not criticizing people, I am just comparing BYC years ago to BYC now. I guess there are more questions to answer now due to more chicken owners, but there used to be many more posts of help to threads. Also, I did link my former thread to this one so that anyone could easily click, but I understand that is an extra step.

 

[pepparaaraa]

I’ve been dealing with some of your issues, I’ve been topically treating her vent with canesten (suggested on BHWT website) but I’m going to try an oral thrush cream next too... I’ve spent £150 at the vet so far and suggested it was fungal but they treated her for worms/lice and antibiotics for Salpingitis and never addressed her butt issues. She has had 2 soft shelled eggs since the antibiotics and clear fluid dripping out like egg white. That’s stopped and now just back to white gunk. So back to the start.
I read somewhere about oral daktarin but apparently it’s not licensed for hens.
I wonder if Nystatin isn’t available here and that’s why my vet ignored my talk of treating her for fungal infection? I’m in the UK, where are you based?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I’ve been dealing with some of your issues, I’ve been topically treating her vent with canesten (suggested on BHWT website) but I’m going to try an oral thrush cream next too... I’ve spent £150 at the vet so far and suggested it was fungal but they treated her for worms/lice and antibiotics for Salpingitis and never addressed her butt issues. She has had 2 soft shelled eggs since the antibiotics and clear fluid dripping out like egg white. That’s stopped and now just back to white gunk. So back to the start.
I read somewhere about oral daktarin but apparently it’s not licensed for hens.
I wonder if Nystatin isn’t available here and that’s why my vet ignored my talk of treating her for fungal infection? I’m in the UK, where are you based?

Do you wish to start a thread about your hen? If so, then give a description of symptoms, treatments/medications that have been administered, etc. along with some photos of the vent and hen.
Your vet should be able to give you an anti-fungal - if not Nystatin, something comparable.

 

[pepparaaraa]

Do you wish to start a thread about your hen? If so, then give a description of symptoms, treatments/medications that have been administered, etc. along with some photos of the vent and hen.
Your vet should be able to give you an anti-fungal - if not Nystatin, something comparable.

Thanks but I just spent £150 and brought her there because of the discharge coming out of her vent and they didn’t deal with it!!
She is a newly rescued Ex-Batt so her health isn’t great. I queried an anti fungal and instead they wormed her and started a lice treatment that I could have done myself for a lot less and I had to do the rest of the flock anyway!
Yet she still has the discharge and that wasn’t addressed at all. Their avian vet only works one day a week and is constantly booked up.
That’s why I was wondering if the person in this post had found anything that you can get without prescription, as it’s been about a week since the last post. However I now see they are from the US, so meds might be different anyway.