- Jan 26, 2008
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I have 24 week old pullet...she eats layer rations, veggies etc. Today she would not get off the roost....(Yesterday she was fine) I was cleaning the dropping board under her and smelled dead/decomp smell. I was wondering what it was and sniffed around and it was the HEN! This is a picture of her vent. There is a a large abscess..on the top right of the picture you can see where it melds into healthy tissue... I cleaned it and tried to open it up...I used a scalpel, and as I cut away I realized it was like granular tissue...proud flesh. I stopped cutting then. The vent itself appears fine, I can feel no egg in the body at all. I gave her a big dose of penicillin in the breast muscle and put her in a cage with a lamp. Last time I went out she was up and clucking a bit (I would be too!!). She has picked at food and drank some...stool was fine when I started, but is now mostly urine and it's yellowish. Maybe from not eating....I was going to do iodine tea. The tissue I cut into had blood vessels in it...I never saw any pus....cottage cheese or otherwise... just that grainy white tissue...any thoughts? I could remove it all, but that would be a lot of tissue...Was going to cull, but she seems healthy enough...bright eyes and not listless...but she won't move either (OW!!) She has been wormed and has no mites...

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