Gleet

[The Covid Cottage]

I have been trying to rid my chicken of Gleet. I have bathed her, wiped it with a warm cloth, used monostat, put apple cider vinegar in their water, given them yogurt to eat and I can not get rid of it!

Help please!
Lisa

 

[azygous]

If you are comfortable with the idea of tubing a chicken, you could try the three-day Epsom Salt flush. It will wash the yeast completely out of the system. The most difficult, unless you already have it, is obtaining the plastic tubing and an oral syringe to fit it.

The flush consists of one teaspoon of Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) dissolved into half cup of warm water. This is given two times a day (all of it) directly into the crop for three consecutive days. It may seem like overkill, but the chicken usually handles it well and I've seen them energized after each treatment.

This can be dehydrating in spite of the large volume of fluid, but I've never seen a chicken have any adverse side effects from it. You do need to supplu plenty of fresh water in between flushes. The magnesium sulfate will naturally kill the yeast spores and hose them out of the digestive tract. I would follow up with another five to seven days of miconazole following the final flush.

I can give you instructions how to tube if you aren't familiar with the procedure.

 

[Razzlefrazzle]

I have been trying to rid my chicken of Gleet. I have bathed her, wiped it with a warm cloth, used monostat, put apple cider vinegar in their water, given them yogurt to eat and I can not get rid of it!

Help please!
Lisa

How long have you been trying with this routine? It can take a week or two to clear up, but I've never had to do more than what you've described... Are you completely sure it's gleet? Is there any moldy food she could be getting into?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Do you have photos?

 

[NotSunkYet]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, please forgive me & move my comment if posting here is inappropriate...

I too have been treating a neighbors chicken for what I believe is vent gleet and have been doing all the same things as the OPer said. This is now day 6.

Each night I've soaked her in warm water with epsom salts and got as much of the gunk off as I could.

I then blow dry her and apply Nystatin to the whole area. She is then a house guest for the evening.

In the morning I use a warm damp cloth to clean her off as best as I can and apply Nystatin again and then set her loose with the flock.

It looks a lot better from when I started but she is still discharging goop. I have ACV in her water and while I am tending to her she gets to eat dried BSF larva in live cultured yogurt.

I also gotten rid of all the feed that was out, cleaned up all the feed bowls and waterers with vinegar.

But there is still a rather large patch of gunk under her vent that is almost like concrete and I can't seem to get it to soften up to be able to remove it.

I can post pics if asked.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, please forgive me & move my comment if posting here is inappropriate...

I too have been treating a neighbors chicken for what I believe is vent gleet and have been doing all the same things as the OPer said. This is now day 6.

Each night I've soaked her in warm water with epsom salts and got as much of the gunk off as I could.

I then blow dry her and apply Nystatin to the whole area. She is then a house guest for the evening.

In the morning I use a warm damp cloth to clean her off as best as I can and apply Nystatin again and then set her loose with the flock.

It looks a lot better from when I started but she is still discharging goop. I have ACV in her water and while I am tending to her she gets to eat dried BSF larva in live cultured yogurt.

I also gotten rid of all the feed that was out, cleaned up all the feed bowls and waterers with vinegar.

But there is still a rather large patch of gunk under her vent that is almost like concrete and I can't seem to get it to soften up to be able to remove it.

I can post pics if asked.

Thanks in advance.

Welcome To BYC

Photos can be helpful.
If the discharge is stuck, try applying a bit of coconut oil or mineral oil, see if that helps loosen it.

Vent Gleet can also be due to sour crop, have you given any medication orally = like Nystatin, Clotrimazole, Miconazole or tried the flush at described in Post#2

 

[Razzlefrazzle]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, please forgive me & move my comment if posting here is inappropriate...

I too have been treating a neighbors chicken for what I believe is vent gleet and have been doing all the same things as the OPer said. This is now day 6.

Each night I've soaked her in warm water with epsom salts and got as much of the gunk off as I could.

I then blow dry her and apply Nystatin to the whole area. She is then a house guest for the evening.

In the morning I use a warm damp cloth to clean her off as best as I can and apply Nystatin again and then set her loose with the flock.

It looks a lot better from when I started but she is still discharging goop. I have ACV in her water and while I am tending to her she gets to eat dried BSF larva in live cultured yogurt.

I also gotten rid of all the feed that was out, cleaned up all the feed bowls and waterers with vinegar.

But there is still a rather large patch of gunk under her vent that is almost like concrete and I can't seem to get it to soften up to be able to remove it.

I can post pics if asked.

Thanks in advance.

Cement butt! I'm quite familiar, unfortunately. (Diarrhea and dust baths don't mix well...) If it's like a ball stuck in her feathers you can try to crack and crumble it with a pair of pliers. Otherwise you just have to slowly rub it away layer by layer in a bath because it really won't soften. Never tried mineral oil on it though...

For the gleet you could give it another week doing what you are doing to see if it clears up, but if she has a lot of discharge then it is likely the infection has moved up her intestinal tract a ways and an oral antifungal may be needed to clear it from the inside out.

Good luck and let us know things go!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Cement butt! I'm quite familiar, unfortunately. (Diarrhea and dust baths don't mix well...) If it's like a ball stuck in her feathers you can try to crack and crumble it with a pair of pliers. Otherwise you just have to slowly rub it away layer by layer in a bath because it really won't soften. Never tried mineral oil on it though...

For the gleet you could give it another week doing what you are doing to see if it clears up, but if she has a lot of discharge then it is likely the infection has moved up her intestinal tract a ways and an oral antifungal may be needed to clear it from the inside out.

Good luck and let us know things go!

Nah, I wouldn't put mineral oil on poop balls, I just pull them off or crush them.

Oil may help loosen discharge like Vent Gleet which is a whole other ballgame.
Sometimes hens that have had prolapse with damage also have a white urates discharge which can look like Vent Gleet, but it's usually an acute oozing that sticks to the skin. In time that will resolve but oils can help lift and soften it a bit so vent tissue can heal.

Anyway, it will be nice to get photos so we can see what @NotSunkYet is talking about.

Vent Gleet - oils may help eventually soften and lift the material.

Photo
Urates discharge from vent damage and likely prolapse. The urates can really attach to the skin and be a bear to get off.

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Poop ball, crush with pliers.

Photo

 

[NotSunkYet]

Welcome To BYC

Photos can be helpful.
If the discharge is stuck, try applying a bit of coconut oil or mineral oil, see if that helps loosen it.

Vent Gleet can also be due to sour crop, have you given any medication orally = like Nystatin, Clotrimazole, Miconazole or tried the flush at described in Post#2

Hi, thanks for the response.

No medication orally, can Nystatin cream be given orally? The box says not to be used orally.

I don't have the tube or syringe or experience to flush the crop.

I will definitely try the coconut oil, thank you.

Here's a pic, there has been some improvement, the lighting and angle in the pic makes it look a bit worse than it is.

 

[NotSunkYet]

Oh, someone mentioned diarrhea. Fortunately the chicken, I've named her Clara , does not have diarrhea. When she is a house guest the poops I find in the morning are well formed.