Vent Infection

[barry549]

Hi there i was wondering if anyone could help me as i am worried about my hen it has been drained of energy and feathers have fallen off from her backside and there is a white crust and it looks as if she is trying to lay an egg but it wont come out please could someone suggest what is possibly wrong with her and is it curable? if is and how?

She is a year old silkie/buff oprington shes about a year old as seen on my avatar picture she has been healthy up until now!

If anyone is having the same problem please write on this thread.

Thanks

 

[welasharon]

Do a search on here for vent gleet and see if that looks like the problem. It is sticky and has a sickly sweet smell.

 

[terryg]

When a hen has vent gleet she has a constant runny, thin discharge from her vent. This is a yeast infection and can be helped with providone. I've written about that here:http://hencam.com/henblog/2011/08/chickens-have-messy-bottoms/

But, what you describe sounds like something else. If she is having trouble moving an egg out it could be many causes, from tumors to an infection/impaction. If it is just a laying glitch, then it will be helped by a warm bath and a few other bits of TLC that I describe in my "spa cure." http://hencam.com/faq/the-spa-treatment/ The good news is that her behavior seems normal, so this might just do the trick to setting her right.

 

[barry549]

thanks for the reply but it doesnt match what yous are suggesting i have tried batheing her and i have isolated her from the rest of flock but she just stands there and squeezes and groans. Her backside comes out and its red and has a gooey white crust on it.

if anyone could give me more suggestions it would be help ?

il put up pictures tomorrow as its dark.

thanks.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

You might want to rule out egg binding (eggbound) as sometimes hens can have white droppings as the "urates come out around the egg."

http://thechickenkeeper.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/egg-bound-chicken-treatment/
(I had read this on BYC but found someone's blog who stated it too)

http://www.avianweb.com/eggbinding.html
this website is for ALL birds

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-treat-egg-binding-in-chickens.html
this written by our own administrator of BYC!

IF she is truly eggbound it is an emergency.

Please note that I don't know what is wrong with your chicken- this is just a suggestion for something for you to google.

There are also conditions such as eggyolk peritonitis that are big problems...sorry I just don't know. You might want to look that up too:
http://www.avianweb.com/eggyolkperitonitis.html

 

[terryg]

Red and gooey? That's different. That's serious. It sounds like a prolapse. That's when the hen's reproductive tract has come outside of the body. Once it gets swollen, infected, or pecked at, it can't go back in again. I don't have a photo of prolapse, but I did have a hen that it happened to. I'm sure you can find more on this site or you can read what I did here:
http://hencam.com/henblog/2007/07/folk-medicine-cure/ BTW, the hen written about in that 2007 post is still in my flock and went back to laying eggs.

 

[barry549]

terry she also wont eat or drink
will she be okay ?
thanks

 

[manoktok]

seems your hen constipated if you observed that your hen seems to be in a difficult mode to poo like we do deep breathing,etc...better use cathether or rubber tubing and disposable syringe filled withn 20ml warm water and insert the catheter 2 inch deep into the rectum and while inserting better break the clogged manure in the vent by moving the catheter inside up and down.and if you observed any damaged in the opening of the rectum you will need to apply topical ointment like terramycin on the wound area.put her in a solitary confinement and pluck the feathers sorrounding the vent area so you can observed if the clogged manure is expelled.better give her soft diet like raw egg.hope it helps

 

[barry549]

what else could i feed the hen mano

 

[terryg]

A hen that won't eat or drink is very, very ill. Sorry.