I need HELP, please? Vent Gleet or something more serious?

[ArianDolympia]

Good move getting the Medistatin. Recently, I had a hen with serious sour crop. I treated her with that and sadly, she never improved. All you can do is treat and hope she's among the majority of chicken patients that will recover nicely with treatment. I had to euthanize my hen, and when I did a necropsy, I saw that it was cancer that had caused her yeast problem. Nothing was going to make her better.

Get a tube of miconazole at the pharmacy in the women's hygeine products. Start her treatment with that while you wait for the Medistatin. Be sure you treat twice a day for a full seven days.

I'm sorry you had to put your hen down. This may be a stupid question but, should I apply the Miconazole into her vent or give it to her orally? Because one of my hen died from Vent Gleet before and someone told me I should give the Miconazole orally instead of insert it in her vent.

 

[ArianDolympia]

Kind of looks like she has been laying internally and has an infection, that is what you smell. I think you will need to bring her to an aviary vet for antibiotics and maybe some fluid removal.

I was hoping Vent Gleet , but I saw the area underneath her vent and I got worry. I'm going to take her to the Vet tomorrow. Thank you so much for your advice!

 

[Fishkeeper]

You shouldn't do anything until you take her to the vet, and you should ask there. It's best not to medicate an animal you're about to take to the vet, because the medication might interfere with whatever the vet is going to want to use.

 

[azygous]

The miconazole is given orally. If you have a vet that sees chickens, that really is the wise decision. Please lets us know what they recommend.

 

[ArianDolympia]

I didn't give her anything other than an Epsom bath and some yogurt. I will keep you posted! Thank you!

 

[ArianDolympia]

The miconazole is given orally. If you have a vet that sees chickens, that really is the wise decision. Please lets us know what they recommend.

For future reference , how much should I give her?

 

[gimmie birdies]

I randomly give my birds yogurt. In the water I put drops of vinegar, also I let them eat left over salad with vinegar, they love it. I also put in electrolights for poultry,(just a pinch) and you can get powder probiotics to put in their water too. Good Luck!

 

[ArianDolympia]

I randomly give my birds yogurt. In the water I put drops of vinegar, also I let them eat left over salad with vinegar, they love it. I also put in electrolights for poultry,(just a pinch) and you can get powder probiotics to put in their water too. Good Luck!

Thank you!

 

[azygous]

Yes, yogurt and probiotics are very good as a followup to treatment of a yeast infection. I usually squeeze out half an inch of cream onto my finger then pull down on the hen's wattles to get her to open her beak, then I wipe my finger with the cream off on the inside of her beak. I even had a hen once who happily gobbled it off my finger, as tasteless as it is.

 

[gimmie birdies]

and use diotomacious earth...