Poop plug (yuck)

[casportpony]

Nystatin can be purchased in the US without a prescription for pigeons. If you're in Canada, I think you can buy Diflucan over the counter, which is probably what I would use instead if I could get some. Both are oral anti-fungals.



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Betadine is a brand name for a range of povidone-iodine (PVPI) topical antiseptics produced and distributed by various manufacturers.
Betadine, like most PVPI products, is available in two formulations:

1. A solution, sold over-the-counter (OTC) for cleaning minor wounds and used in hospitals to prepare a patient's skin prior to surgery. Solutions are 10% povidone-iodine in water.
2. A 'surgical scrub', which is a mixture of povidone-iodine and detergent, sold OTC as a skin cleaner and disinfectant hand wash and used for cleansing hands prior to surgery and other aseptic procedures.

Betadine is used in hospital settings as part of a regimen for Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). Betadine may be used topically for surface infections of the human rectum.
Betadine 0.7% is used for sore throat by rinsing the throat without swallowing it. For lacerations in horses (legs, knees, hocks, pasterns), betadine is widely used to prevent infections. It can be used to disinfect thrush in the medial sulcus of the hoof.

 

[amy11rn]

Hello,

I was wondering what the outcome was of your poop plug. I have a rooster who has been plugged up. I have removed the plugs but it keeps reoccurring.

Thanks,
Amy

 

[VincentVanCrow]

Hi there, sorry to hear you are having poop problems. I bath my rooster for months and months and months twice a day and gave him regular enemas and applied Polysporin all around the edges. It never did clear up. I eventually had a problem with three of my hands coming down with peritonitis two of them died the third one I was able to get onto antibiotics and safe but in the process of trying to figure out why they were getting peritonitis the vet came to the conclusion that it was probably the rooster with the pasty bum introducing E. coli into their cloaca. Sadly, we had to put Fawkes down, after months of handling him he had become very tame and we were very sad to see him go.

The vet felt that because it did not heal or dislodge the poop after months of bathing that it was probably a type of cancer.

Are you putting Epsom salts in the water and applying Vaseline or polysporin after things have softened up? Are you seeing any improvement at all? Does the rooster seem healthy and happy otherwise?

 

[VincentVanCrow]

By any chance, is your guy a banty?

 

[VincentVanCrow]

Bahahaha!! I just reread what I posted! Too funny. Sorry, I was using voice to text on my iPhone as I just jammed my hand in a door and typing hurts. And although, coincidentally, my hand *does* hurt, neither one of them has died. (yet) although the third hand is looking a bit funny... *snerk* I can't stop laughing...

 

[casportpony]

Hello,

I was wondering what the outcome was of your poop plug. I have a rooster who has been plugged up. I have removed the plugs but it keeps reoccurring.

Thanks,
Amy

I would treat him with the antibiotic Baytril, which you can buy online without a prescription very easily,

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Hi there, sorry to hear you are having poop problems. I bath my rooster for months and months and months twice a day and gave him regular enemas and applied Polysporin all around the edges. It never did clear up. I eventually had a problem with three of my hands coming down with peritonitis two of them died the third one I was able to get onto antibiotics and safe but in the process of trying to figure out why they were getting peritonitis the vet came to the conclusion that it was probably the rooster with the pasty bum introducing E. coli into their cloaca. Sadly, we had to put Fawkes down, after months of handling him he had become very tame and we were very sad to see him go.

The vet felt that because it did not heal or dislodge the poop after months of bathing that it was probably a type of cancer.

Are you putting Epsom salts in the water and applying Vaseline or polysporin after things have softened up? Are you seeing any improvement at all? Does the rooster seem healthy and happy otherwise?

Sorry you lost him... What antibiotic did you try?

-Kathy

 

[VincentVanCrow]

I did use the betadine on him as well as polysporin ointment. I also used lots of stuff for yeast. the local pharmacist was very helpful. The antibiotic the vet put my sick hen on was tetracycline.

He was a very sweet, gentle rooster. It really was a shame. He was very hen pecked and lonely in his short little life. I felt so sorry for him. He had just started getting some backbone with the girls.

 

[casportpony]

I did use the betadine on him as well as polysporin ointment. I also used lots of stuff for yeast. the local pharmacist was very helpful. The antibiotic the vet put my sick hen on was tetracycline.

He was a very sweet, gentle rooster. It really was a shame. He was very hen pecked and lonely in his short little life. I felt so sorry for him. He had just started getting some backbone with the girls.

So the rooster never got any antibiotics or antifungals?

-Kathy

 

[VincentVanCrow]

Antifungals, yes. No oral antibiotics. The appearance of the poop scab never changed, and it didn't look infected. Just... Weird. The vet felt it was a type of cancer. A weepy weird cancer that poop stuck to. He was soaking in warm saltwater for 20-30 minutes at least once, sometimes twice a day. For I don't know how many monthes...3 maybe 4 or even 5. He used to fall asleep in the tub. Funny little guy. I don't know. But $100 is my life time allowance for chicken trips to the vet my husband says.