Is this vent gleet or....?

[mollygrace]

I just noticed this a couple days ago on my year old hen. Her bottom is bare and there is a white streak running down from her vent. The vent itself looks okay. She is still laying eggs. She is my hen that will run away if I even think about touching her, so it was difficult to catch her and check it out. These pictures were the dickens to get.

She's my biggest hen and is more likely to pick on someone else rather than be picked on, so I'd be surprised if it's feather picking. But I do have another occasional bully that could be a culprit if it is a case of picking.

She's not missing feathers anywhere else. Hoping it's not mites. Other hens seem to be fine.

I only just learned about vent gleet while trying to research what's going on, so I'm really not sure if that's what I'm seeing.

Also, since she's my most difficult to catch, any suggestions on treatment that will require me to catch her as infrequently as possible? (Or just how to catch a difficult to catch chicken for treatment?? )

 

[Yardfulla poopers]

I've not had experience with vent gleet, but the pics don't look like something serious to me. I would trim the dirty feathers while she is sleeping and see what happens.
I have plenty of experience with mites/lice and they will definitely pick their vent clean because of it. Can you go in at night and check around the vent with a bright light to see if there are specks that move to avoid the light?
I use a headlamp and part the feathers all the way to the skin around vent, under wings, as many places as they will let me check before getting testy.