Urea leaking

[Betty29]

We recently introduced a new chicken into our coop. It did not go well and there was a lot of fighting and the new chicken seemed to make ours sick. We separated them and rehomed the new chicken.
One of ours then started bleeding from the vent and died a few days later. Two more were bleeding and dripping a white substance. The vet said she thought it was a gastro intenstinal
Infection and they had diarrhoea and leaking urea. I gave a course of antibiotics and probiotics and it cleared up but the white substance is still present. Two weeks later there has been blood dripping when she lays and now her vent is almost blocked with the white substance. She is pecking at it to get poo out. Any ideas?

 

[tripletfeb]

We recently introduced a new chicken into our coop. It did not go well and there was a lot of fighting and the new chicken seemed to make ours sick. We separated them and rehomed the new chicken.
One of ours then started bleeding from the vent and died a few days later. Two more were bleeding and dripping a white substance. The vet said she thought it was a gastro intenstinal
Infection and they had diarrhoea and leaking urea. I gave a course of antibiotics and probiotics and it cleared up but the white substance is still present. Two weeks later there has been blood dripping when she lays and now her vent is almost blocked with the white substance. She is pecking at it to get poo out. Any ideas?

Give her a warm bath with epsom salts. Let her sit for a good 20 mins. Put on a glove and help get that stuff off her vent. If she can't poop, she will die. And that stuff gets hard like cement and is almost impossible to remove then. You can use an oil or Vaseline to coat the vent and help prevent it from sticking. I don't know what to tell you about the blood so I will tag others. @Wyorp Rock @azygous

 

[Eggcessive]

When you say the new chicken made your chickens sick, what were the symptoms? I would have put her down or separated her, not have given her away to someone else,. It sounds like there was a problem with integration, and some vent pecking was happening. Vent pecking can lead to cannibalism, but it sounds like the hen now has vent damage. That can cause a continuous leakage of urates. Urates can become stuck and hard around the vent opening. Can you take a photo of her vent area? I agree that I would try to remove any crusted urates with a gloved finger, but a warm soak in Epsom salts or soapy water beforehand might help soften it. Then lubricate her vent opening with oil or ointment.