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

[slynn11]

Any updates? I'm experiencing the same problem with 2 hens (they came with it so I dont have much history)

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Any updates? I'm experiencing the same problem with 2 hens (they came with it so I dont have much history)

Hi @slynn11 Welcome To BYC

This thread is from 2022, so the OP is unlikely to see your question.

If you can please provide more information about symptoms, any treatments you have administered and photos of the hens, their vents and their poop, that would be good.

Thanks!

 

[slynn11]

Any updates?

Hi @slynn11 Welcome To BYC

This thread is from 2022, so the OP is unlikely to see your question.

If you can please provide more information about symptoms, any treatments you have administered and photos of the hens, their vents and their poop, that would be good.

Thanks!

Hi Thanks for replying. I figured that might be the case but you never know!

I am newish to chickens, this is my first time with suspected vent gleet. Essentially I had all my chickens killed by a fox, and had some geese that I was trying to bond in with the flock so I last minute grabbed some "apparently" 1 year old layers, which turned out to be from an amish farm. I have no idea if some are older or not, I dont really care, but they were definitely not in great shape.

I've been giving them lots of vitamins, good quality layer pellets. I have 6 and get 4 eggs a day. One came with a poopy bum and I thought maybe parasites or bugs. Dewormed the whole flock. Checked for bugs and didnt find any mites or lice that I could see on any of them so a good start.


I call this one "poopy butt", she is larger, rhode island red. Lays daily, eats drinks etc as normal and seems to be quite high in the pecking order. I started by just bathing her and googling. Right after I bathed her and put her in a separate pen I could see that she was continueing to drip clear liquid and was already ruining her clean feathers.

I have since then tried to keep up with bathing her every other day (going on almost a month now), although days that are cold I skip so she wont be cold and wet. I also have been putting monostat cream around her vent, cleaning off all the yucky sticky crud as much as I can (its like glue). I gave her some monistat orally and some in her vent by cutting the pills into approximately thirds.

I went at it pretty hard for one week and did 4 days in a row to really attack it. Shes not leaking as much, but its definitely not getting better.


About a week after, I noticed a couple others with poopy butts so everyone got a bath. Everyone else stayed clean except for one other chicken, and she is nearly as bad as the first one now. Same treatment protocol, same 4 days in a row as well, no improvement. She is also laying daily. She is a little quieter, but she is also lowest pecking order and gets a little bullied.


so anyways I'm at the end of my energy level for bathing these chickens lol I'm also in canada so a lot of meds are hard or impossible to get here and I cannot take a 6$ chicken to the vet.

I do have a vet I can try calling to see if they would dispense some antibiotics for a chicken, but i'm not sure if they will.

Both of them when they lay have poopy eggs.

Someone is laying wrinkly eggs but im not sure if its one of the poopy butt chickens


Oh. i have been rotating the water between electrolytes, gut health, vitamins, all with apple cider vinegar added on top as well.


Otherwise they all seem to have perked up a bit and are much friendlier already. Nothing seems to be contagious at this point and they are in with my geese and baby chickens and no one else has gotten sick.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Any updates?

Hi Thanks for replying. I figured that might be the case but you never know!

I am newish to chickens, this is my first time with suspected vent gleet. Essentially I had all my chickens killed by a fox, and had some geese that I was trying to bond in with the flock so I last minute grabbed some "apparently" 1 year old layers, which turned out to be from an amish farm. I have no idea if some are older or not, I dont really care, but they were definitely not in great shape.

I've been giving them lots of vitamins, good quality layer pellets. I have 6 and get 4 eggs a day. One came with a poopy bum and I thought maybe parasites or bugs. Dewormed the whole flock. Checked for bugs and didnt find any mites or lice that I could see on any of them so a good start.


I call this one "poopy butt", she is larger, rhode island red. Lays daily, eats drinks etc as normal and seems to be quite high in the pecking order. I started by just bathing her and googling. Right after I bathed her and put her in a separate pen I could see that she was continueing to drip clear liquid and was already ruining her clean feathers.

I have since then tried to keep up with bathing her every other day (going on almost a month now), although days that are cold I skip so she wont be cold and wet. I also have been putting monostat cream around her vent, cleaning off all the yucky sticky crud as much as I can (its like glue). I gave her some monistat orally and some in her vent by cutting the pills into approximately thirds.

I went at it pretty hard for one week and did 4 days in a row to really attack it. Shes not leaking as much, but its definitely not getting better.


About a week after, I noticed a couple others with poopy butts so everyone got a bath. Everyone else stayed clean except for one other chicken, and she is nearly as bad as the first one now. Same treatment protocol, same 4 days in a row as well, no improvement. She is also laying daily. She is a little quieter, but she is also lowest pecking order and gets a little bullied.


so anyways I'm at the end of my energy level for bathing these chickens lol I'm also in canada so a lot of meds are hard or impossible to get here and I cannot take a 6$ chicken to the vet.

I do have a vet I can try calling to see if they would dispense some antibiotics for a chicken, but i'm not sure if they will.

Both of them when they lay have poopy eggs.

Someone is laying wrinkly eggs but im not sure if its one of the poopy butt chickens


Oh. i have been rotating the water between electrolytes, gut health, vitamins, all with apple cider vinegar added on top as well.


Otherwise they all seem to have perked up a bit and are much friendlier already. Nothing seems to be contagious at this point and they are in with my geese and baby chickens and no one else has gotten sick.

Sorry to hear you lost your flock, that must've been tough to go through.

Sounds like these newbies are improving. You may find the article below helpful in treating them.
https://www.tillysnest.com/2012/12/vent-gleet-prevention-and-treatment-html/

 

[slynn11]

Sorry to hear you lost your flock, that must've been tough to go through.

Sounds like these newbies are improving. You may find the article below helpful in treating them.
https://www.tillysnest.com/2012/12/vent-gleet-prevention-and-treatment-html/

Thanks. I have seen this site. Unfortunately I don't have access to vet medications.

Otherwise have followed this.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thanks. I have seen this site. Unfortunately I don't have access to vet medications.

Otherwise have followed this.

You can order Nystatin online.

https://jedds.com/products/medistatin-medpet?_pos=1&_sid=48d0f7544&_ss=r

 

[Chicken0401]

Did you ever get it cleared up? I’m going through the same thing and I don’t know what to do