Something wrong with her butt

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Update today: Yesterday, I isolated her and she's by herself inside a kennel in the paddock with the rest of her flock. She has laid a solid nice looking egg in her kennel this morning (I threw it away). Her vent looks the same, though. It's a mess back there. She still has this goo all over her vent area and it drips. Poop looks normal. Does any of this make sense? Is the consensus that she has a minor prolapse? She's been getting a calcium citrate every day now, and she's been very rebellious about taking that pill, so I've had to break it in half to see what that buys me.
P.S. Happy New Year.

 

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Happy new year. Today and yesterday, she laid an egg. She still has goo coming out of her vent and her vent feathers are a mess. That blood you see in the picture is just a blood covered feather. She bleeds when the egg comes out. I'm giving her a calcium citrate pill once daily. Is this just a minor prolapse still?

 

[Themellowyellows]

Happy new year. Today and yesterday, she laid an egg. She still has goo coming out of her vent and her vent feathers are a mess. That blood you see in the picture is just a blood covered feather. She bleeds when the egg comes out. I'm giving her a calcium citrate pill once daily. Is this just a minor prolapse still?

Glad to know you are isolating her. To me, it seems like it still is minor. Not sure about the blood though, I have never had and hopefully will never deal with prolapsed, the vent still comes out right?

 

[Themellowyellows]

Happy new year. Today and yesterday, she laid an egg. She still has goo coming out of her vent and her vent feathers are a mess. That blood you see in the picture is just a blood covered feather. She bleeds when the egg comes out. I'm giving her a calcium citrate pill once daily. Is this just a minor prolapse still?

Glad to know you are isolating her. To me, it seems like it still is minor. Not sure about the blood though, I have never had and hopefully will never deal with prolapsed, the vent still comes out right?

 

[Themellowyellows]

How is she today?

 

[howcanweknow]

How is she today?

(I forgot to hit post with this reply yesterday). I've added preparation H around her vent to her daily treatment of 1 calcium citrate pill. She puts up the biggest fight over that pill (that I cut in half to give her separate pieces). Her vent feathers are not as disastrous, but still messy. No blood on her vent feathers. Still has a drip of goo coming from her vent. Still has a small grape sized protrusion from her vent occasionally. Poop still normal. Still been laying a solid egg every day. I had read somewhere that maybe you should put a hen who has vent prolapse in a kennel and put in total darkness day and night to prevent egg laying. I suppose since she's a little better I'll just keep her where she is in the kennel out in the paddock until there is more improvement. Thanks for asking.

 

[Themellowyellows]

(I forgot to hit post with this reply yesterday). I've added preparation H around her vent to her daily treatment of 1 calcium citrate pill. She puts up the biggest fight over that pill (that I cut in half to give her separate pieces). Her vent feathers are not as disastrous, but still messy. No blood on her vent feathers. Still has a drip of goo coming from her vent. Still has a small grape sized protrusion from her vent occasionally. Poop still normal. Still been laying a solid egg every day. I had read somewhere that maybe you should put a hen who has vent prolapse in a kennel and put in total darkness day and night to prevent egg laying. I suppose since she's a little better I'll just keep her where she is in the kennel out in the paddock until there is more improvement. Thanks for asking.

Of course. The white goo might be vent gleet. It is best to go to a vet ASAP, if you do not have one near you, continue with washing her butt gently and calcium. Vent gleet is usually a infection in the chickens vent. When you was her butt, with a mild soap wash the outside and just slightly inside. In her water add apple cider vinegar and a probiotic supplement every day until she heals. Keep us posted!

 

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Of course. The white goo might be vent gleet. It is best to go to a vet ASAP, if you do not have one near you, continue with washing her butt gently and calcium. Vent gleet is usually a infection in the chickens vent. When you was her butt, with a mild soap wash the outside and just slightly inside. In her water add apple cider vinegar and a probiotic supplement every day until she heals. Keep us posted!

Continue the daily preparation H or no? And how sure can I be if she has vent gleet? I need to be 99% sure of what she has before any treatment. I'm 99% sure she has a minor prolapse. I saw other posts of prolapse and all those hens had the same messy vent feathers. They are messy because of the drip, and I assume the vent drips because it's not staying closed. So, I'm not too sure about vent gleet. I can get another picture if it will help. FYI, here is what I have on hand to treat hens. I spent a few hundred dollars on this stuff when I got my hens a couple of years ago:

Calcium citrate plus d3,
witch hazel,
syringes with needles and without,
electrolyte save-a-chick,
save a chick probiotic,
ivomec,
poultry nutri-drench,
meloxicam,
carbo vegetabilis,
bioactive silver hydrosol,
terramycin,
vet RX poultry Aid,
super cal-d3,
Epsom salt
clotrimazole USP 1% antifungal cream,
LA-200,
polysporin,
hen Heeler multi-purpose ointment,
Vitamin C powder ascorbic acid food grade,
guardstar garden and poultry dust with permethrin,
Wonder dust wound powder,
vetericyn plus antimicrobial poultry care spray,
corid,
Johnson & Johnson head to toe shampoo,
poultry booster pelleted top dress vitamin and mineral supplement for all classes of poultry,
Preparation H ointment
END OF LIST

 

[Themellowyellows]

Continue the daily preparation H or no? And how sure can I be if she has vent gleet? I need to be 99% sure of what she has before any treatment. I'm 99% sure she has a minor prolapse. I saw other posts of prolapse and all those hens had the same messy vent feathers. They are messy because of the drip, and I assume the vent drips because it's not staying closed. So, I'm not too sure about vent gleet. I can get another picture if it will help. FYI, here is what I have on hand to treat hens. I spent a few hundred dollars on this stuff when I got my hens a couple of years ago:

Calcium citrate plus d3,
witch hazel,
syringes with needles and without,
electrolyte save-a-chick,
save a chick probiotic,
ivomec,
poultry nutri-drench,
meloxicam,
carbo vegetabilis,
bioactive silver hydrosol,
terramycin,
vet RX poultry Aid,
super cal-d3,
Epsom salt
clotrimazole USP 1% antifungal cream,
LA-200,
polysporin,
hen Heeler multi-purpose ointment,
Vitamin C powder ascorbic acid food grade,
guardstar garden and poultry dust with permethrin,
Wonder dust wound powder,
vetericyn plus antimicrobial poultry care spray,
corid,
Johnson & Johnson head to toe shampoo,
poultry booster pelleted top dress vitamin and mineral supplement for all classes of poultry,
Preparation H ointment
END OF LIST

Im pretty sure its a minor prolapse. I think you should treat her for that. Not really sure what preparation H is. @Eggcessive. @Wyorp Rock

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Update on 12/28/2024. Hen is still behaving normally. Her butt opening still looks odd. I put another calcium citrate in her beak today

Also, she is dripping some gooey fluid drops from her butt...maybe egg whites? Poop seems normal. I found another egg with blood on it in the nesting box, and a thin shelled egg that was broken.

Is it normal that she is still oozing this goo now which is yellowish white? She is pooping normally.

She still has this goo all over her vent area and it drips. Poop looks normal. Does any of this make sense? Is the consensus that she has a minor prolapse?

She still has goo coming out of her vent and her vent feathers are a mess. That blood you see in the picture is just a blood covered feather. She bleeds when the egg comes out.

I saw other posts of prolapse and all those hens had the same messy vent feathers. They are messy because of the drip, and I assume the vent drips because it's not staying closed. So, I'm not too sure about vent gleet.

The leakage is urates and/or material from the Oviduct.
If you have an antibiotic like Amoxicillin on hand, I'd give her a round.

She's prolapsing. It's chronic at this point, not sure if I'd call it minor. I'd give the Calcium to help with retention. She may be trying to expel something like lash material or ??? Hard to know. Sometimes hens that are prolific layers unfortunately start to have reproductive problems. All you can do is treat the symptoms and hope they help.

Keep her hydrated and eating her normal feed.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ng-from-vent-prolapse-oh-my-what-to-do.76124/ This will tell you how to treat a prolapse. Usually, prolapse is caused by an obstruction, either an egg or poop. Once the obstruction clears, the prolapse retracts on its own.

I would pop a calcium tablet into her beak along with a teaspoon of coconut oil. The first one stimulates contractions in the oviduct and the second softens any compacted poop.