vent help!!

[Swampy_9]

I have no idea if this is relating to the mite infestation we have right now. I've been treating them once every other day to not completely stress my hens out but today I was cleaning our older hen's butt because of poop and saw her vent like this.

It's not bleeding she is still going to the bathroom though it gets stuck, it doesn't smell bad just smells the same as chicken poop, she still fought me to not give her a cleaning so I know she still has her spirit and I think two days ago she just laid an egg. Though this has never followed

What should I do. Is there something I myself can do given there is no immediate vet anywhere near by.

Right now I'm going to give her some smashed boiled eggs to give her something to eat and protein. But is there anything else I should do? I've also going to spray her with vetricyn but not sure if I should continue with the mite spray like this

 

[nuthatched]

Looks she has some fly strike, what ate you using to treat the mites?

 

[Swampy_9]

Looks she has some fly strike, what ate you using to treat the mites?

I'm using pure planet poultry spray for mites and give them a quick soak in permethrin/ water. I clean their coop once a week and put gardstar poultry garden dust above the bedding and some in their dust areas

Right now I cleaned her up again now that her feathers are dried and didn't find scabbing or any blood just some poop before I sprayed her with banixx for chixx spray since I don't have any more vetricyn.

She ate her egg just fine. Keeps preening herself so I have no idea what else I could do for the mites or if it is fly strike

 

[ashsmitty]

I used diatomaceous earth when one my chickens had mites. I dusted all of them with it real good and the mites were gone almost instantly. The feathers started coming back within a few days. Put it in their dust areas too. It works great. Just don't let it get wet. Doesn't work when wet everything has to be dry.

 

[Swampy_9]

I used diatomaceous earth when one my chickens had mites. I dusted all of them with it real good and the mites were gone almost instantly. The feathers started coming back within a few days. Put it in their dust areas too. It works great. Just don't let it get wet. Doesn't work when wet everything has to be dry.

Ookay ill try that too. Do you know if her vent looks like this because of the mites? Only she and my rooster have bad mites

 

[ashsmitty]

Her vent was fine. She lost all her feathers though. I would do all your chickens with it just to be on the safe side.

 

[nuthatched]

I'm using pure planet poultry spray for mites and give them a quick soak in permethrin/ water. I clean their coop once a week and put gardstar poultry garden dust above the bedding and some in their dust areas

Right now I cleaned her up again now that her feathers are dried and didn't find scabbing or any blood just some poop before I sprayed her with banixx for chixx spray since I don't have any more vetricyn.

She ate her egg just fine. Keeps preening herself so I have no idea what else I could do for the mites or if it is fly strike

That poultry spray will not help with either issue, the permethrine is the best bet. If there's no scab, she mat have beaten it.

I used diatomaceous earth when one my chickens had mites. I dusted all of them with it real good and the mites were gone almost instantly. The feathers started coming back within a few days. Put it in their dust areas too. It works great. Just don't let it get wet. Doesn't work when wet everything has to be dry.

D.E is bad for you and your birds to breathe, I wouldn't recommend you do that anymore.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I have no idea if this is relating to the mite infestation we have right now. I've been treating them once every other day to not completely stress my hens out but today I was cleaning our older hen's butt because of poop and saw her vent like this.

I'm using pure planet poultry spray for mites and give them a quick soak in permethrin/ water. I clean their coop once a week and put gardstar poultry garden dust above the bedding and some in their dust areas

Her vent is bruised, likely from being picked at. I'd apply a bit of anti-inflammatory cream on the vent.
Is she laying eggs?

For a mite infestation that heavy, treat her with the Poultry Dust, dust her all over. Work the dust all the way through the feathers to the skin.

Clean out your entire coop, throw away or burn the bedding, don't compost it.

Give the coop/housing a thorough treatment of Permethrin. Buy the concentrate and mix it up, put in a sprayer and spray everything down including all nooks/crannies, joints of wood, nesting boxes, etc. Let dry and put back minimal bedding because you are going to want to repeat the process in 5 day intervals until the mites are gone.
Sprinkling dust or DE (which will do nothing) on the bedding will not even reach mites.

Mites can suck the life out of hen, so getting them controlled will help a lot. I'd also give her Poultry Cell a few times a week. Direct oral dose is 1cc per 3lbs of weight.

 

[Swampy_9]

Her vent is bruised, likely from being picked at. I'd apply a bit of anti-inflammatory cream on the vent.
Is she laying eggs?

For a mite infestation that heavy, treat her with the Poultry Dust, dust her all over. Work the dust all the way through the feathers to the skin.

Clean out your entire coop, throw away or burn the bedding, don't compost it.

Give the coop/housing a thorough treatment of Permethrin. Buy the concentrate and mix it up, put in a sprayer and spray everything down including all nooks/crannies, joints of wood, nesting boxes, etc. Let dry and put back minimal bedding because you are going to want to repeat the process in 5 day intervals until the mites are gone.
Sprinkling dust or DE (which will do nothing) on the bedding will not even reach mites.

Mites can suck the life out of hen, so getting them controlled will help a lot. I'd also give her Poultry Cell a few times a week. Direct oral dose is 1cc per 3lbs of weight.

Okay will do. She did lay one egg the same day, and her vent looked slightly better when I put her in that night. I'll get some cream for her and do more sprays and dust her