Vent gleet or dirty butt?

[Saraalexis17]

This is my only hen like this, her vent is normal and healthy looking but every morning her butt looks like this!! It’s confusing us.
bedding is made of straw, she is molting, she eats regular layer feed, we recently bought her and she was fine when she arrived. Poop is normal, not runny. No other girl in our flock looks like this. We wash her butt every time we notice this and she looks great and fluffy throughout the day but wakes up like this.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is hard to know if she is just have watery poops, but that can be common in hot weather when they drink a lot of water. I would try some probiotics to see if it gets better. Ideally, if you could take in a sample of her droppings in a ziploc bag to a vet, and get a fecal float test, that could tell if there is any coccidiosis, worms, or possibly yeast (fungus.) If any other pets need a vaccination or check up, that might make it easier. Worming your chickens with Valbazen or SafeGuard Liquid Goat Wormer once and again in 10 days might help. Vent gleet is usually a fungal infection, smells terrible, and it causes continuous drippage that makes the vent area raw and sore. Medistatin powder online, or Nystatin can treat that.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It is hard to know if she is just have watery poops, but that can be common in hot weather when they drink a lot of water. I would try some probiotics to see if it gets better. Ideally, if you could take in a sample of her droppings in a ziploc bag to a vet, and get a fecal float test, that could tell if there is any coccidiosis, worms, or possibly yeast (fungus.) If any other pets need a vaccination or check up, that might make it easier. Worming your chickens with Valbazen or SafeGuard Liquid Goat Wormer once and again in 10 days might help. Vent gleet is usually a fungal infection, smells terrible, and it causes continuous drippage that makes the vent area raw and sore. Medistatin powder online, or Nystatin can treat that.

@Eggcessive, is it contagious to the other hens, or strictly internal to the one hen that has it? Can you provide a link to an article on this topic? Thanks.

 

[Eggcessive]

@Eggcessive, is it contagious to the other hens, or strictly internal to the one hen that has it? Can you provide a link to an article on this topic? Thanks.

It really does not look or sound like vent gleet to me. But vent gleet could be possibly spread from a hen to a rooster to other hens. Here is one article that you can read about it:
https://www.tillysnest.com/2012/12/vent-gleet-prevention-and-treatment-html/

 

[citychicks99]

This is my only hen like this, her vent is normal and healthy looking but every morning her butt looks like this!! It’s confusing us.
bedding is made of straw, she is molting, she eats regular layer feed, we recently bought her and she was fine when she arrived. Poop is normal, not runny. No other girl in our flock looks like this. We wash her butt every time we notice this and she looks great and fluffy throughout the day but wakes up like this.

Any updates on this? My rooster has been having this for a while. He seems fine otherwise.