Vent Gleet

[casportpony]

The two links posted by @dawg and @micstrachan are my two favorites.

 

[MHAWKINS]

Hmmm... someone else here has experience with chickens getting sick from a compost pile. Antibiotics were administered and saved the hen. I think it was @casportpony or possibly @azygous .

Luckily, I was able to get a vet appointment today and I believe it may be fungal or bacterial as one has green (the really sick one) and the others have white/yellow. Hoping to get it all taken care of today and get my feather babies healthy again! NO MORE COMPOST PILE FOR THEM!

 

[MHAWKINS]

If your chickens have vent gleet, it's probably just coincidental to a bacterial infection or toxic mold exposure from the compost. Vent gleet normally doesn't make a chicken so sick they can't walk, and probiotics and an anti-yeast medicine usually clears it up.

You need to administer a broad spectrum antibiotic such as amoxicillin 250mg immediately to all affected chickens.

Yes, I had chickens sicken and die from moldy squash I had been putting into my compost pile. I thought I had safely dug it way under to the bottom so it would decompose before it became a danger to the chickens. I hadn't counted on the stellar excavating abilities of Cream Legbars who will keep going to China if they could.

Disposing of spoiled food in compost piles is something I no longer do when chicken are in the picture.

Luckily, I was able to get a vet appointment today and I believe it may be fungal or bacterial as one has green (the really sick one) and the others have white/yellow. Hoping to get it all taken care of today and get my feather babies healthy again! NO MORE COMPOST PILE FOR THEM!

 

[casportpony]

Glad yo got an appointment for today! Good luck and let us know what the vet says.

 

[MHAWKINS]

This link might help:
http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/vent-gleet

Thanks...Luckily, I was able to get a vet appointment today and I believe it may be fungal or bacterial as one has green (the really sick one) and the others have white/yellow. Hoping to get it all taken care of today and get my feather babies healthy again! NO MORE COMPOST PILE FOR THEM!

 

[MHAWKINS]

Not sure I asked the right question. I think you would need her tested to know the cause of the vent gleet. Do you know what type of infection it is?

Luckily, I was able to get a vet appointment today and I believe it may be fungal or bacterial as one has green (the really sick one) and the others have white/yellow. Hoping to get it all taken care of today and get my feather babies healthy again! NO MORE COMPOST PILE FOR THEM!

 

[Amey73]

I had 14 girls that were given to me. One of them has Vent Gleet. I’ve been giving her Epsom salt baths (which she loves) and I’ve been putting Mobistat on her Vent. I feel bad for the girls because I believe they were kept as farm animals and not back yard chickens. They have a nice clean place to call home now and I’ve been tackling this Vent Gleet. Today she got some yogurt and she loved it. I feel like I should flush her out or put something up in there to get rid of it lol. I’m a first time Chicken Mama and I feel badly for my Lady (that’s her name). The other chickens are in an antibiotic for respiratory stuff.