kitkaticus
Hatching
- Jul 14, 2025
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Hello,
I am leaving the country in 3 days and my dad is pet sitting, so naturally, everything is going to sh*t. I have 3 chickens with a situation:
Chicken 1: Bojangles. Chronic poopy butt likely caused by vent gleet. Treated with 7 day monistat for 7 days. Then 7 day monistat for 10 days. I didn't realize I could use the 3 day so I did that internally and externally for 5 days with, isolated her for sour crop (she regurgitated liquid when I pulled her off the roost) where she succesfully laid an egg. The front end seems to be doing better but the back end still is poopy butt. We've also cut her feathers, epsom salt bathed, give everyone probiotic water, and treated for parasites because, why not? Today I grabbed ahtletes foot cream with a different antifungal to see if that combined with internal monistat helps.
Chicken 2: B****h Face. Cemani. Brand new poopy butt, definitely looks like vent gleet. Started her on the more aggressive treatment right off the bat and am hoping that clears this up. I wish I'd known it could be treated more aggressively when I started Boji's treatment :/
Chicken 3: Little Miss C. Cemani. My bottom babe. She has a dry crusty butt. Her feathers seem fine. I noticed it back in Feb and treated with Elector PSP because maybe mites? I don't see them on her or in the coop anywhere and the other chickens don't have this issue. I'm not sure what's going on but she's got dry flaky skin all over her bottom, not just around the vent. It's like severe dandruff or psoriasis. I noticed it had gotten bad again today when I did butt checks. Anyone else have a dandery chicken? Overall, it doesn't seem to impact her in anyway but I have no clue what's going on.
Egg production for both Cemani's has slowed, but they aren't great layers to begin with, they're not in their prime, and it's been very hot out. Neither are easy to catch, they're very suspicious chickens and it's a two person job.
So all that said, my question is- what can my dad do for the 7 days were gone to keep everyone going/alive? This is a lot and he's older- I'm not sure he's up for massaging chicken a**holes with antifungal and I don't think he'd be able to get anything into their mouths. I don't have any friends here that could help, the one friend that would have been willing to do this moved to out of state and I actually inhereted all of three of these from her. I'll take any advice you all have for treatments he can do while he's here.
I am leaving the country in 3 days and my dad is pet sitting, so naturally, everything is going to sh*t. I have 3 chickens with a situation:
Chicken 1: Bojangles. Chronic poopy butt likely caused by vent gleet. Treated with 7 day monistat for 7 days. Then 7 day monistat for 10 days. I didn't realize I could use the 3 day so I did that internally and externally for 5 days with, isolated her for sour crop (she regurgitated liquid when I pulled her off the roost) where she succesfully laid an egg. The front end seems to be doing better but the back end still is poopy butt. We've also cut her feathers, epsom salt bathed, give everyone probiotic water, and treated for parasites because, why not? Today I grabbed ahtletes foot cream with a different antifungal to see if that combined with internal monistat helps.
Chicken 2: B****h Face. Cemani. Brand new poopy butt, definitely looks like vent gleet. Started her on the more aggressive treatment right off the bat and am hoping that clears this up. I wish I'd known it could be treated more aggressively when I started Boji's treatment :/
Chicken 3: Little Miss C. Cemani. My bottom babe. She has a dry crusty butt. Her feathers seem fine. I noticed it back in Feb and treated with Elector PSP because maybe mites? I don't see them on her or in the coop anywhere and the other chickens don't have this issue. I'm not sure what's going on but she's got dry flaky skin all over her bottom, not just around the vent. It's like severe dandruff or psoriasis. I noticed it had gotten bad again today when I did butt checks. Anyone else have a dandery chicken? Overall, it doesn't seem to impact her in anyway but I have no clue what's going on.
Egg production for both Cemani's has slowed, but they aren't great layers to begin with, they're not in their prime, and it's been very hot out. Neither are easy to catch, they're very suspicious chickens and it's a two person job.
So all that said, my question is- what can my dad do for the 7 days were gone to keep everyone going/alive? This is a lot and he's older- I'm not sure he's up for massaging chicken a**holes with antifungal and I don't think he'd be able to get anything into their mouths. I don't have any friends here that could help, the one friend that would have been willing to do this moved to out of state and I actually inhereted all of three of these from her. I'll take any advice you all have for treatments he can do while he's here.
