BrendaJune
Chirping
We have four chickens and two have come down with vent gleet, if my diagnosis is correct. Raw, red bottom and loss of feathers in the year end area only. Everyone is pecking at the exposed, raw back ends. I isolated both chickens in their own dog crate in the chicken run. Water and food is available and no one can peck their butts. I soaked each butt in warm water and epsom salts for 10 minutes every other day for a week and coated the raw area with an anti fungal. The healed up pretty well but no new feather yet. I got a bottle of "Pick-No-More cover-up lotion for external use on domestic poultry" from the feed store. It has worked well on one chicken but not the other. I put a new coat of the cover up on when I let them out this morning then I went out a little later to check on them and there was blood all over the roof of the coop. The smallest chicken had been pecked brutally so in the crate she went. I am questioning my diagnosis because one symptom is a bad smell and I smell nothing. I know my nose is working because I can smell everything else! Is there another possible problem and I should treat differently?
