Pasty butt in a year old chicken

[Haunted55]

Update. Almost 3 weeks later and no real improvement. She's isolated from the other chickens. We've been bathing her daily, giving yoghurt in feed, spraying iodine on vent after bathing and adding vitamins and probiotics to her feed too. Took to vet 5 days ago and he prescribed antibiotics (terramycin) for 5 days as was sure the diarrahoea was caused by a parasite infection.

She's eating and drinking well and looks otherwise healthy with glossy feathers but can't seem to shift the crusty vent problem. Only real improvement is that the top of her vent is now a rosy pink rather than a disgusting yellow mess, the bottom half of her vent, however, is blocked with the yellow "scrambled egg" crust and she still smells really bad!

Am going to give it another week, but it's starting to look like a hopeless case!

I still have a couple of birds who are showing this problem. What I am doing now is spraying the vent area with Blu-Kote as it is gentian violet which is the best thing in the world to heal yeast infections. This will keep the skin protected from the burning of the yeast.

 

[animalfarmer]

Our sick chick died 3 weeks ago. Her butt was starting to look clean again after bathing for 5.5 weeks every day! But she still had runny poop, mostly yellow. The day she died, she looked sad and hunched up for the first time, didn't want any food and by the evening, had her head in the water bowl and was struggling to breathe. She died overnight, before we had a chance to put her out of her misery.

My theory was she had internal problems and was possibly laying shell-less eggs. None of the other hens have any symptoms and we kept her isolated anyway. We did our best.

Hope your girls get better soon.

 

[Haunted55]

thank-you and I am really sorry you lost her.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

Sorry for your loss

The person with the poopy butt chicken -
Give her a bath and cut of the feathers around her vent so their shorter. Looks like the poops getting caught in the feathers, common in fuzzy butts

 

[vtscapeartist]

I just read through this post as I have two hens, one 10 mos old, the other 7 mos old with what I would call 'pasty butt'. Will ck for blocked vent but most of what I managed to delicately tease off their rears was poo. Looked to me like a ping pong ball size of wadded up poo. Did not notice any horrid smell...just regular chook-poo smell. I will segregate these gals and supplement them with SCV and garlic in their water, add diatomaceous earth to their pellets but hope I don't have to do anything more drastic...keeping everything organic. I'll read up on Gleet...never heard of that before. It's been a real cold winter but we've also had a few periods of annoying thaw that have prompted us to remove most of our deep litter layer that got wet (from thawing and water oozing into coop!) so I hope it's not a fungal issue. Have replaced wet litter layer with fresh dried pine shavings to absorb any remaining moisture. Ugh...what a long winter it's been...two weeks into Spring and still tons of snow to melt!
Any additional tips would be appreciated!