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

[ArianDolympia]

Hello ,everyone!
At first, I thought my 1 year old Sapphire Gem has Vent Gleet, because she had poop stick to her vent feathers , and then came the awful smell.I separated her from the flock last night since she didn't want to get on the roost.This morning, I gave her 1 capsule of Acidophilus mixed in with yogurt and some mash, ACC water in the side. She didn't want any. I gave her a Epsom salt bath and trimmed her vent feathers and this is what I saw. I had a pullet with Vent Gleet before and the area underneath the vent wasn't swelling with discoloration like this. Have you seen this before? Please, help my girl! Any suggestions and advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[azygous]

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Your hen is more likely to have a crop issue than vent gleet. Both smell pretty bad. If she has sour crop, the treatment is actually the same as for vent gleet - an anti-yeast medicine such as Medistatin or miconazole.

There are some cases of sour crop, though, that don't respond to treatment if there is a more serious underlying issue such as cancer.

 

[ArianDolympia]

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Your hen is more likely to have a crop issue than vent gleet. Both smell pretty bad. If she has sour crop, the treatment is actually the same as for vent gleet - an anti-yeast medicine such as Medistatin or miconazole.

There are some cases of sour crop, though, that don't respond to treatment if there is a more serious underlying issue such as cancer.

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[azygous]

Yes! Good job! Are all your flock in molt right now, or just this hen?

 

[ArianDolympia]

I checked her crop, it was empty. I ordered Medistatin last night as a backup ,hoping she would not need it. Now that I saw her like this, I'm really worry. Thank you so much for your advice!

 

[ArianDolympia]

The Med would not be here until Friday, though.

 

[ArianDolympia]

She is not in molt. I trimmed her feathers because of the poop stuck on them.

 

[ArianDolympia]

Nobody molting right now.

 

[azygous]

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.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

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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.