Vent Gleet Will Not Go Away! It’s Been Months 😓

[Dandelion111]

I have a lavender Orp, she is a little over a year old. She developed, what I thought to be, vent gleet with symptoms of heavy white discharge from her vent. She acts absolutely normal considering her bum is leaking, she eats like a hog, runs around, forages, and even lays BIG eggs!
The discharge started a few months ago, I noticed that she looked like she was having troubles pooping, by this time she has discharge, I started treating her by flushing with epsom salt orally and baths. A few days later she was having trouble laying an egg, talk about stressful, I was so scared we would t be able to get that egg out but I bathed her for like 30min and helped her birth that baby!
Ever since then her vent has been swollen, on the inside, with horrible discharge, it just won’t stop...I have treated her naturally with antifungal pills, probiotics, colloidal silver, wormed her heavily, citric acid flush to vent 2xday, just about everything but it WONT GO AWAY! Her vent is still so swollen that she has trouble pooping and stands there for awhile to get it all out, she also has this weird, what looks like, cottage cheese stuck to the inside walls of her vent (what the heck is this stuff?) and it’s also blocking her poops... what gives
I just am out of solutions and wanted to reach out to see if anyone had any?!
This has been going on for months and it’s just stressful cause I cannot put her back with flock, don’t want rooster messing around with her, she STINKS, she has a horrendous oder about her.
She literally has a bright red comb, acts like nothing is going on down there, so weird.
I’ve been searching this site for months for a solution, some say use nystatin, but some say that did nothing for their gleet issues, some say copper sulphate, but that stuff comes with side effects too...
I would be ever so grateful for y’all’s help.
None of my other 40+ hens have this issue, they eat an organic-corn-soy-free feed, they have over an acre to free roam every day, they have grit and oyster shell free choice in several locations, they are spoiled hens

 

[alinas2010]

Poor girl. Have you tried an OTC anti fungal?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Please, can you post photos? (Hen, vent, discharge, poop, etc. etc.) Thanks!

Has she resumed laying since that one big egg?

Did she prolapse when laying the egg?
Was the egg normal?
Has she laid any lash eggs?

A bad odor would likely indicate infection. It may be vent gleet, but it may be infection that you smell.

Without photos, I'm going to say the cottage cheese material (does it come off or could it be tumors or papilloma?) you are seeing if urates leakage, especially if it's blocking her and making it hard for her to go.

You can try the Acidified Copper Sulfate or Nystatin to see if those make a difference.
You risk side effects with anything you give including an aspirin, so it would be up to you to determine if the risk is worth it.

 

[Dandelion111]

Poor girl. Have you tried an OTC anti fungal?

Yes, I have used monostat suppositories cut them up and put into capsules and pilled her with them, did this for 5 days or more plus put it in her vent. It didn’t work

 

[Dandelion111]

Please, can you post photos? (Hen, vent, discharge, poop, etc. etc.) Thanks!

Has she resumed laying since that one big egg?

Did she prolapse when laying the egg?
Was the egg normal?
Has she laid any lash eggs?

A bad odor would likely indicate infection. It may be vent gleet, but it may be infection that you smell.

Without photos, I'm going to say the cottage cheese material (does it come off or could it be tumors or papilloma?) you are seeing if urates leakage, especially if it's blocking her and making it hard for her to go.

You can try the Acidified Copper Sulfate or Nystatin to see if those make a difference.
You risk side effects with anything you give including an aspirin, so it would be up to you to determine if the risk is worth it.

I will post pics in the morning.
She prolapsed for only a few minutes passing that one egg. The egg was normal. She STILL lays eggs, she has laid 3 in the past 4 days and I don’t know how considering her vents condition, they aren’t tiny eggs, she’s an orp mix and a big girl!
No lash eggs, but that smell... is hard to explain
The cottage cheese stuff... well I know it may sound gross but I try and pick some of it out and some of it will, but it’s literally stuck to the wall of her insides and bleeds if I mess to much
To me it’s like cooked cheese, solid but flexible, it’s gross, I will attach pics in the morning, I really wana help her get over this

 

[Dandelion111]

Please, can you post photos? (Hen, vent, discharge, poop, etc. etc.) Thanks!

Has she resumed laying since that one big egg?

Did she prolapse when laying the egg?
Was the egg normal?
Has she laid any lash eggs?

A bad odor would likely indicate infection. It may be vent gleet, but it may be infection that you smell.

Without photos, I'm going to say the cottage cheese material (does it come off or could it be tumors or papilloma?) you are seeing if urates leakage, especially if it's blocking her and making it hard for her to go.

You can try the Acidified Copper Sulfate or Nystatin to see if those make a difference.
You risk side effects with anything you give including an aspirin, so it would be up to you to determine if the risk is worth it.

 

[Dandelion111]

The first pic is what her bum looks like daily, this is this morning at 8:30am est, some days it’s worst, but I clean this off every morning
The second picture is kinda hard to see inside her vent, but what’s there is a yellow-white cheese like canker Thant’s stick to the walls of her inside vent lining.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Does she have mites or lice too?
Ever seen any maggots in the discharge?

What were the anti-fungal pills that you gave (product, dose and how long)?

Look like it might be Vent Gleet.

Have you treated for worms, coccidiosis too?

At this point, I'd try the Acidified Copper Sulfate and see what happens.

 

[Dandelion111]

She does get lice off and on, I use a natural spray on her and it works but I’m in the southeast and it’s been horribly hot & humid and rainy the last month.
Hard to get control of them when they can’t dust bath due to weather.
Never seen maggots.
I gave her monostat 3 day package. I took out the suppositories, 3 of them, and stuffed them into capsules, gave them to her orally 2xday for 6 days, then did this same protocol again about 3-4 days later because it still wouldn’t go away. So even after getting monostat orally and put around & inside her vent after 12 days NO improvement!
She has been treated for worms “naturally “ using human grade wormer. She did 7 days on, 7 days off, 7 days on, 7 off, and 7 days on (3 weeks total to kill any eggs that may have hatched later).
This stuff works great, I’ve used it on a hen that literally pooped spaghetti
Round worms on the poop board, and once we zeroed in on who it was I treated that hen and within 3 days she passed them and I dosed a few more times later to catch any new hatched, never to be seen again in that hen!
But this Orp with the gleet still after being dosed for 3 weeks still found some roundworm eggs in her poop so for the past week or longer she has been getting wormed 2xday with some other stuff to help rid her of them. I haven’t seen anymore round worm in her poop these last couple days.
What I haven’t treated Her for is cocci. All I have is Corid for that and I wish there was something better to use for cocci...
With that said, she doesn’t have any diarrhea/ loose stools, etc, she eats like a crazy pig, she just runs around all day scratching and peckin since I won’t let her back with the rest of the hens. I want this problem resolved before I let her back there!

 

[Dandelion111]

Does she have mites or lice too?
Ever seen any maggots in the discharge?

What were the anti-fungal pills that you gave (product, dose and how long)?

Look like it might be Vent Gleet.

Have you treated for worms, coccidiosis too?

At this point, I'd try the Acidified Copper Sulfate and see what happens.

Do you really think I should try the copper sulphate?
How can I just give it to one hen?
Every thing I read says not intended for one hen, just a flock...
Plus it says only use in water but how can I make sure she drinks it?
I give these hens clean water and they’ll go drink out the dirty puddles
Can I syringe some in her? Thoughts?