Strange Chicken ailment

[MysteryChicken]

@azygous, what's your thoughts on what maybe going on?

 

[amystrum]

My first guess with a prolonged bout of diarrhea would be vent gleet, and the dairy isn't doing her any favors.

I just looked that up and yes it might be that! What do you or anyone else think the best treatment for this might be?

 

[amystrum]

I just looked that up and yes it might be that! What do you or anyone else think the best treatment for this might be?

 

[amystrum]

I was thinking the samething about the dairy. They are lactose intolerant.

I was thinking the samething about the dairy. They are lactose intolerant.

Best treatment for that?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Best treatment for that?

Treatment for lactose intolerance?
Don't feed dairy products. They can't digest it.

I believe the treatment for vent gleet is the same as treating a yeast infection.

 

[azygous]

Vent gleet smells very unpleasant. If there's a very disgusting odor to her caked on poop, it may be vent gleet. Vent gleet is different from sour crop in that the yeast has managed to colonized the entire digestive tract. It's quite difficult to treat.

Since the yeast is throughout the digestive tract, Medistatin is the most efficient med for this as you mix it into the food which will carry it through the intestines where the yeast is lurking. https://www.jedds.com/shop/medistatin/

It would be wise the bathe her dirty underparts so the yeasty poop doesn't end up irritating her skin. Vetericyn wound spray can help counter bacteria and yeast spores between washings. She needs to be kept clean. I know it just adds to the toil of trying to treat her, but she will benefit from reducing the amount of yeast and bacteria she has to deal with.

 

[kerbotx]

Since the yeast is throughout the digestive tract, Medistatin is the most efficient med for this as you mix it into the food which will carry it through the intestines where the yeast is lurking. https://www.jedds.com/shop/medistatin/

Thanks for the tip about Medistatin - always great to have another tool! It is rather pricey, though - do you feel feeding miconazole nitrate is harmful, or just significantly less effective?

 

[azygous]

It's been my experience that miconazole does not last long enough to get deep into the digestive tract. I have had no luck treating vent gleet with it. However, you may use the miconazole to treat the vent as women use it to treat the exterior effects of a vaginal yeast infection. The brunt of the miconazole is injected by syringe into the woman's vagina. It works on a woman because the yeast is contained in the vagina. On a hen, the yeast in a vent gleet infection can go all the way up through the large and small intestines and into the gizzard and proventriculus.