Stella's Social Club

[ronott1]

Never seen a case of vent gleet, though had to deal with quite a bit of sour crop. Most of the crop issues have been when it quit functioning as a symptom of a system-wide shutdown, not specifically a crop problem, though. Gotta keep them out of the compost pile where they can get hold of moldy feed.

I have one hen that is prone to vent gleet. We live in a place that has valley fever. Sometimes chickens from other parts of the country have not built up any immunity to valley fever(It is a mold that is in the soil) and so they have problems with it. I had an australorp that did not get sour crop but had a fungal plug just before the lungs--she died of pneumonia--UCD gives us a free necropsy services so I sent her in and that was the result. She was 10 months old.

In young chickens with sour crop and then vent gleet, it is treated with monistat 7.

 

[speckledhen]

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For sure, different areas have their different issues. We have cocci in most all chicks when there is a prolonged wet period. It's humid here anyway, which leads to moldy everything. We've had the fungal lung infections in some older birds one summer. Was super hot for here, drier than normal, so at a certain point, we started wetting the pens. Spores were obviously released, breathed in, and we were treating one group of older hens, plus Isaac, for that fungal stuff with Oxine misting. Haven't seen it since. Haven't have that type summer since, either, but if we do, no more wetting down pens.

One thing's for certain. Just when you think you've seen it all, something new comes up.

 

[The Sheriff]

Rain! Off and on all night and this morning. Yahoo.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Rain! Off and on all night and this morning. Yahoo.

Haha, here, too. Only we are not in near the dire straights for it as you! This was taken 2 days ago, the pond was the highest we've ever seen it in the year and a half we've lived here. It's rained a few more INCHES since I took this picture, I want to walk back there and take another today. At the end of summer last year when it was very dry I stuck an arrow I found in the woods at the waterline to be able to gauge how high the water was compared to a dry time. You cannot even see the top of the arrow now. My husband said yesterday all the tall grasses at the front edge of the pond are now just barely showing out of the water.

 

[N2nicole]

That's a beautiful pond!

 

[The Sheriff]

Send that rain to us Rinda! We need it more than you do.

Kelly, I finally made the pancakes. Mine were a little dense. I am going to try again using beaten egg white and see if they come out lighter. Love the syrup!

 

[drumstick diva]

Famous culinary critic Drumstick Diva sez "Mary I would eat those pancakes in a minute." 'nuf sed

 

[The Sheriff]

Famous culinary critic Drumstick Diva sez "Mary I would eat those pancakes in a minute." 'nuf sed

We made stir fry for dinner. Michael made broccoli beef and I made spicy beef with snow peas. So good!

 

[N2nicole]

Send that rain to us Rinda! We need it more than you do. Kelly, I finally made the pancakes. Mine were a little dense. I am going to try again using beaten egg white and see if they come out lighter. Love the syrup!

Mmmmmmmmmm that looks good!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Oh Mary - any sentence with broccoli or kale in it cannot be good.