Vent Gleet?

[16Chickens Keeper]

So yesterday I noticed there was a foul smell coming from my hens and I checked them and noticed it was my EE hen, when I picked her up and looked at her vent she had yellow "poop" stuck in and around her feathers and vent I read it could be fleet but I don't know how to treat it?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

So yesterday I noticed there was a foul smell coming from my hens and I checked them and noticed it was my EE hen, when I picked her up and looked at her vent she had yellow "poop" stuck in and around her feathers and vent I read it could be fleet but I don't know how to treat it?

Can you take some photos of her? Before and after you give her vent a good washing?

 

[16Chickens Keeper]

Can you take some photos of her? Before and after you give her vent a good washing?

Ok ill post in the morning except is there a specific way or method to clean her vent, also besides the cleaning is there anything I can treat her with?

 

[AmyJane725]

The treatment would depend on what kind of infection she's got down there. It could be fungi, bacteria, yeast, parasites or even protozoa. If it's bacterial 100 mg Metronidazole/kg of body weight can help.
I'd start by just soaking her in a warm soapy bath and cleaning all the dried on poop off. Trim the feathers if you have to.
Use a syringe or some sort of squirter to rinse out her cloaca. You can massage the cloaca as well. Then apply an iodine based antiseptic. Keep this up for a few days and see if it improves.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Ok ill post in the morning except is there a specific way or method to clean her vent, also besides the cleaning is there anything I can treat her with?

You first need to determine the source/cause of the foul smell. Could be just caked on poop, there could be maggots, infection or it could be vent gleet.

Pictures would be helpful. Just give her a wash up.

If it's bacterial 100 mg Metronidazole/kg of body weight can help.

Use a syringe or some sort of squirter to rinse out her cloaca.

So basically follow the instructions in this link
http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/vent-gleet

 

[peeper89]

The treatment would depend on what kind of infection she's got down there. It could be fungi, bacteria, yeast, parasites or even protozoa. If it's bacterial 100 mg Metronidazole/kg of body weight can help.
I'd start by just soaking her in a warm soapy bath and cleaning all the dried on poop off. Trim the feathers if you have to.
Use a syringe or some sort of squirter to rinse out her cloaca. You can massage the cloaca as well. Then apply an iodine based antiseptic. Keep this up for a few days and see if it improves.

mettrondizol treat gleet? i not know figure good so whats dose in lbs.?