prolapse, or compounded by gleet-looking for help!

[Asking for my chickens]

Hello! New member hoping to get advice from long-timers. One of my girls was egg-bound on 2/13/23, sitting in a corner in the run. When I went back out to get her, she was outside with the others (with a very poopy butt). I found a bloody-ish egg where she'd been (pic below). I went ahead and brought her in and gave her a bath to discover she had a prolapse as well, and on the vent tissue, a very hard deposit of stuff it took quite a bit to get off. I didn't get all of it off (but most) before the vent automatically went back in. I went ahead and put olive oil in the vent, Preparation H around the vent area, blow-dried her and put her back out with the others. The next morning, after coming out first thing to get some mealworms, she went back to the corner and burrowed. I brought her back in, but vent was still in, but seemed dry. I gave her another bath, prep H, and scrambled egg with calcium and D3. I have been keeping her in the garage in a dog kennel, low light. She laid an egg Thurs. that was squishy (no hard shell). This morning, there was a verrrrry thin shelled egg. I gave her another scrambled egg with calcium and D3. Getting ready to give her another bath, as she looks dirty again. She won't let me get a good pick of her area, but I did get a good pick of a dropping (below), which was very mucus-y. My question is should I go ahead and use monistat (generic) 4% cream in and around the vent, or prep H, or hydrocortisole? I keep reading different advice. Thanks!

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Hello! New member hoping to get advice from long-timers. One of my girls was egg-bound on 2/13/23, sitting in a corner in the run. When I went back out to get her, she was outside with the others (with a very poopy butt). I found a bloody-ish egg where she'd been (pic below). I went ahead and brought her in and gave her a bath to discover she had a prolapse as well, and on the vent tissue, a very hard deposit of stuff it took quite a bit to get off. I didn't get all of it off (but most) before the vent automatically went back in. I went ahead and put olive oil in the vent, Preparation H around the vent area, blow-dried her and put her back out with the others. The next morning, after coming out first thing to get some mealworms, she went back to the corner and burrowed. I brought her back in, but vent was still in, but seemed dry. I gave her another bath, prep H, and scrambled egg with calcium and D3. I have been keeping her in the garage in a dog kennel, low light. She laid an egg Thurs. that was squishy (no hard shell). This morning, there was a verrrrry thin shelled egg. I gave her another scrambled egg with calcium and D3. Getting ready to give her another bath, as she looks dirty again. She won't let me get a good pick of her area, but I did get a good pick of a dropping (below), which was very mucus-y. My question is should I go ahead and use monistat (generic) 4% cream in and around the vent, or prep H, or hydrocortisole? I keep reading different advice. Thanks!

I have been dealing with an issue like this for months now and 2000 in vet bills
Several times using medicines
Still waiting on a fungal test results but they did find first round a bacterial in the intestines. Cleared that but the gleet continued and eggs still with blood streaks although no soft shelled eggs
She has laid everyday through all of this
We are now on baytril for 3 types of elevated bacteria and amoxicillin for the 4th one. Not sure what started all of this issue but one lead to another
I have been cleaning the vent for months 3 times a day with iodine , bacterial spray then using the yeast cream inside and out
The avian vet told me many things can lead to the gleet issues
If you can get a vet to test the gleet that would be best.
If not I would continue to clean the area 3 times a day and use the creams
Not all antibiotics work on all bacteria as I’m learning
Mine is a duck but the issues run the same with birds
Don’t eat her eggs I have been throwing mine away since the start

 

[Asking for my chickens]

I have been dealing with an issue like this for months now and 2000 in vet bills
Several times using medicines
Still waiting on a fungal test results but they did find first round a bacterial in the intestines. Cleared that but the gleet continued and eggs still with blood streaks although no soft shelled eggs
She has laid everyday through all of this
We are now on baytril for 3 types of elevated bacteria and amoxicillin for the 4th one. Not sure what started all of this issue but one lead to another
I have been cleaning the vent for months 3 times a day with iodine , bacterial spray then using the yeast cream inside and out
The avian vet told me many things can lead to the gleet issues
If you can get a vet to test the gleet that would be best.
If not I would continue to clean the area 3 times a day and use the creams
Not all antibiotics work on all bacteria as I’m learning
Mine is a duck but the issues run the same with birds
Don’t eat her eggs I have been throwing mine away since the start

Oh goodness! Thank you for your response! I'm quite certain dear hubby will not entertain a vet bill like that, even if I could find an avian one nearby. Okay, thanks, I will proceed with the monistat, and go from there. One concern I have is that I read that the rooster could get the yeast infection and transfer to the other girls, is that correct, do you know? Thanks again!

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Oh goodness! Thank you for your response! I'm quite certain dear hubby will not entertain a vet bill like that, even if I could find an avian one nearby. Okay, thanks, I will proceed with the monistat, and go from there. One concern I have is that I read that the rooster could get the yeast infection and transfer to the other girls, is that correct, do you know? Thanks again!

None of my other birds have caught it and the boys did mate her
But I now have her separated for a few reasons
1 I was having to throw away 11 eggs a day unless I saw her lay it it had the blood on it
2- with the antibiotics needing to be given 3 times a day I have to do a dose at 11 pm
And don’t want to upset the coop at that time
3- this has caused her to have wet feather as well and ducks love to bath and it’s cold out so I need to keep her in a warm place where I can towel dry her as well
Baytril seems to work on most bacterials. But I’m not a vet so I can’t say for sure what ones she has elevated causing those issues
But I was told baytril and amoxicillin go good together and can be given at the same time

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

None of my other birds have caught it and the boys did mate her
But I now have her separated for a few reasons
1 I was having to throw away 11 eggs a day unless I saw her lay it it had the blood on it
2- with the antibiotics needing to be given 3 times a day I have to do a dose at 11 pm
And don’t want to upset the coop at that time
3- this has caused her to have wet feather as well and ducks love to bath and it’s cold out so I need to keep her in a warm place where I can towel dry her as well
Baytril seems to work on most bacterials. But I’m not a vet so I can’t say for sure what ones she has elevated causing those issues
But I was told baytril and amoxicillin go good together and can be given at the same time

I’m not sure how it works with chickens but with my duck they carry all these bacterias but hers are elevated higher then normal and it’s what’s causing the issues
This could be because she got the intestine infection and then her body was busy fighting that and the other ones grew
Even the avian vet doesn’t know how this started
My ducks are very spoiled and things are kept very clean
Fresh feed daily with bowls washed
Fresh water twice a day sometimes 3 times with buckets rinsed out
I clean the poo daily in the pen by hand picking each one up
How this happened I have no idea other then a guess of it was way to cold to have kid pools out for bathing so she may not have been doing a great job and one thing lead to another
My vet bills are high mostly cause my in town vet isn’t avian but they do the best they can
They really didn’t know what to do and finally sent me ti the avian vet
Now we are getting tests done Ed should have months ago

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

I’ll add … many say use apple cider vinegar with mother in it
Put it in the water
I have also been using probiotics on a treat to help her
Many extra tricks to help them
But maybe somebody who has chickens can give advice on the spread to the rooster.
With her issues it maybe best to let her heal without the boy around

 

[Asking for my chickens]

I’ll add … many say use apple cider vinegar with mother in it
Put it in the water
I have also been using probiotics on a treat to help her
Many extra tricks to help them
But maybe somebody who has chickens can give advice on the spread to the rooster.
With her issues it maybe best to let her heal without the boy around

Well, after her bath yesterday, and a blow-dry, I took her out since it was pretty nice in the afternoon and let them all get reacquainted. This afternoon my husband spotted her laying what he said was just an yolk! Looking closely, the shell was very soft, and it looked like it just oozed out of the shell as she ejected it. I wonder if she just isn't taking up the calcium . . . or maybe she isn't eating enough. She is the bottom of the order, and I wonder. . . . thank you so much for all of your suggestions! Good luck with your girl! I hope you get the exact right treatment, and she is back in with her friends soon!

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Well, after her bath yesterday, and a blow-dry, I took her out since it was pretty nice in the afternoon and let them all get reacquainted. This afternoon my husband spotted her laying what he said was just an yolk! Looking closely, the shell was very soft, and it looked like it just oozed out of the shell as she ejected it. I wonder if she just isn't taking up the calcium . . . or maybe she isn't eating enough. She is the bottom of the order, and I wonder. . . . thank you so much for all of your suggestions! Good luck with your girl! I hope you get the exact right treatment, and she is back in with her friends soon!

I know you can give her calcium directly
With my duck it’s 1 ml over treat or through syringe
Vitamin B complex
This will help to give her the extra she needs

 

[Asking for my chickens]

I know you can give her calcium directly
With my duck it’s 1 ml over treat or through syringe
Vitamin B complex
This will help to give her the extra she needs

Okay, thank you!

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Okay, thank you!

This is the wrong one
It needs to be the calcium one
@Miss Lydia do you have a picture of the calcium one ?