Vent injury

[Zfamflock]

I have a 1 year old hen who is 1 week +2 days out from a vent injury I’ve been treating at home. She was fine when I put her and our two other chickens to bed and when I went out late morning around 9am (they have an automatic door that opens first thing 6am) she was being attacked by another hen. The aggressor was at her vent. I collected my injured chicken right away and found she had a hurt wing which is now healed but the vent is taking longer. Nothing was hanging out of her vent or looked fleshy coming out. No fouls odors or discharge. Just bloody. I put her in a little dog crate set up in the garage with a red lamp. Let her rest a bit and then cleaned her up. Upon reading other posts i did epsom salt baths nightly, cleaning the area with a moisturen sterile gauze, then 2x daily a regimen vetericyn spray, Manuka honey, aquaphor/vaseline, and cortisone cream. It was pretty swollen and that has sense gone down. I thought once the blood was washed up (it took a couple days to get the dried blood cleaned because I was trying to be careful and not scrub too hard) it looked scabby but I’m not certain. I thought necrotic? But others I’ve asked said it looks like scab. I thought it was beginning to look better but the last day or so I’m not sure how I feel about it. She’s eating, drinking, laying her egg everyday. At night I keep her in the crate so I can stay on her regimen but put her in our chicken tractors for some outside time when it warms up enough as she’s missing feathers around her vent and belly from the other chicken.

I’ve taken pictures daily I’ll post

Note any moisture or white you see is either freshly bathed and I didn’t want to dry out that area so feathers are damp, or freshly applied ointment/honey.

 

[Zfamflock]

 

[CCsGarden]

So sorry about this! It looks infected? maybe? Keep her inside away from all the chickens till she has fully recovered.

 

[Zfamflock]

She’s been away from them for the entire time of me treating the injury. The chicken tractor is separate from the normal coop run.

This pic is after her outside time in the sun and before her second application of meds/ointment. The top of her vent just under her tail is starting to lift away. Cleaned it again now and snuck some med honey in there

 

[Zfamflock]

She’s been away from them for the entire time of me treating the injury. The chicken tractor is separate from the normal coop run.

This pic is after her outside time in the sun and before her second application of meds/ointment. The top of her vent just under her tail is starting to lift away. Cleaned it again now and snuck some med honey in there
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She’s been away from them for the entire time of me treating the injury. The chicken tractor is separate from the normal coop run.

This pic is after her outside time in the sun and before her second application of meds/ointment. The top of her vent just under her tail is starting to lift away. Cleaned it again now and snuck some med honey in there
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I have a 1 year old hen who is 1 week +2 days out from a vent injury I’ve been treating at home. She was fine when I put her and our two other chickens to bed and when I went out late morning around 9am (they have an automatic door that opens first thing 6am) she was being attacked by another hen. The aggressor was at her vent. I collected my injured chicken right away and found she had a hurt wing which is now healed but the vent is taking longer. Nothing was hanging out of her vent or looked fleshy coming out. No fouls odors or discharge. Just bloody. I put her in a little dog crate set up in the garage with a red lamp. Let her rest a bit and then cleaned her up. Upon reading other posts i did epsom salt baths nightly, cleaning the area with a moisturen sterile gauze, then 2x daily a regimen vetericyn spray, Manuka honey, aquaphor/vaseline, and cortisone cream. It was pretty swollen and that has sense gone down. I thought once the blood was washed up (it took a couple days to get the dried blood cleaned because I was trying to be careful and not scrub too hard) it looked scabby but I’m not certain. I thought necrotic? But others I’ve asked said it looks like scab. I thought it was beginning to look better but the last day or so I’m not sure how I feel about it. She’s eating, drinking, laying her egg everyday. At night I keep her in the crate so I can stay on her regimen but put her in our chicken tractors for some outside time when it warms up enough as she’s missing feathers around her vent and belly from the other chicken.

I’ve taken pictures daily I’ll post

Note any moisture or white you see is either freshly bathed and I didn’t want to dry out that area so feathers are damp, or freshly applied ointment/honey.

3/23 update

 

[Eggcessive]

I would continue treating as you have been, cleaning, and applying medi honey or an antibiotic ointment. Does her lower abdomen seem enlarged compared with the others? Are they overcrowded or not getting out to free range? How much protein does their feed contain? Is the bully pecking anyone else? Sometimes the one pecking needs to be separated, and some people use pinless peppers on the bully to prevent them from having a good aim. Here is a thread about them:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/pros-and-cons-of-pinless-peepers.1629317/

 

[Zfamflock]

I would continue treating as you have been, cleaning, and applying medi honey or an antibiotic ointment. Does her lower abdomen seem enlarged compared with the others? Are they overcrowded or not getting out to free range? How much protein does their feed contain? Is the bully pecking anyone else? Sometimes the one pecking needs to be separated, and some people use pinless peppers on the bully to prevent them from having a good aim. Here is a thread about them:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/pros-and-cons-of-pinless-peepers.1629317/

I’m unable to free range as we have 3 hawks that have dwindled my flock. They were not over crowded though as my flock decreased down to a handful of chickens. Even when they were free to roam the bully chicken picked on her and 2 others. The updated pic is her vent almost all healed. I wanted to post an update for anyone else with a similar issue. I thought it was necrotic based on other posts and thought she wouldn’t make it through. Turns out it was a nasty looking scab. It took nearly a month to heal. I’ve stopped treatment on it as the scab began to lift and tissue underneath was healthy. She removed the scab herself as I was hoping. There’s just a little bit that has rescabbed now.

The bully chicken has been separated and is now on my sisters farm as part of much bigger flock where she is not able to be the head honcho anymore .

 

[Eggcessive]

Thanks for the update.