Pasty vent, with history of worms. Should I use antibiotics? Advise for getting rid of worms...THA

[analynn]

So, about a year ago i took my sick chicken to the vet and she has round worm. I treated my flock with what the vet gave me for worms and the ones with pasty vents with anti biotics also. Well my chickens free range in the yard with my dogs, and I did not treat the yard will enough for the eggs, and the worms were back. two of the chickens had a pasty vent but were behaving fine. So this time I isolated my chickens to just their coop/run and cleaned up all the dog poop on the lawn and treated my dogs. I treated the chickens with valbazen 2 times 11 days apart, took out top 4-8 inches of dirt from chicken run(it was winter so a lot was frozen so just did the best i could) and then torched very very thoroughly the coop and run after each dose of valbaxen cleaning out the poop after the second dose of valbasen. I kept the dog poop picked up so U.V rays can kill any eggs left over from the dog poop. I also under some wrong information from the feed store guy gave my chicken 14 days of antibiotic for RESPIRTORY. Wrong stuff i later found out. So it has been about 3 weeks since i last treated my chickens w valbazen. Was about to finally let them out as i felt the sun had been out enough and enough time had passed that any worms on the lawn would be dead, and i noticed 2 of my chickens have the starts of a pasty vent. they all had good stool after about 3 days from the first dose of valbazen.
So, i am stumped. So i do the entire process over but also treat with an intestinal antibiotic along with the valbazen again? And what kind of antibiotics should i use? I don’t want to over dose my chickens, but they need to get better. Or do i just bite the bullet and take them to the vet?
Thank you so much!!!!

 

[FenikT]

If your reference to pasty vent is meant to be gleet, then treating with antibiotics is just throwing your $ away. Gleet needs to be handled with an anti-fungal. Its like asking your doctor for penicillin to treat a yeast infection...

 

[roostersandhens]

Sounds like the pasty but is Vent Gleet. Luckily Vent Gleet is not too bad. Here is a link made by Sally Sunshine it should help:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/vent-gleet-aka-nasty-chicken-butt
Give them yogurt that should help too.
Good Luck!

 

[analynn]

thanks guys! if it continues i will sure look into that. appreciate it!

 

[cafarmgirl]

Keep in mind that you will never rid the yard of worm eggs. That's why chickens need to be kept on a regular deworming schedule because there is no way to rid the environment of worms and their eggs. They are carried in by wild birds but they can also get parasites from earth worms and other bugs that chickens naturally eat. A twice a year schedule is sufficient for most folks and you need to do a 10 day retreat after the initial dose. That is to clean up any worms that hatched after the 1st dose since the dewormer does not kill the eggs or cysts.