Vent picking? Please help!*Graphic pics*

[GermanKennhuhn]

You can mix some olive or mineral oil in a small amount of egg or her feed. The coconut oil can be mixed it is soft. If you have a syringe or dropper, you can give her the oil orally, but very slowly a drop at a time letting her swallow. I would also try to feed her watery chick feed to get more water into her.

Thank you! I’ll definitely try those suggestions!

 

[GermanKennhuhn]

So I just went to TSC to get the BluKote, and found two things:

Would the Hen Healer ointment work? Or should I use the BluKote?

 

[GermanKennhuhn]

Also she appears to have white discharge coming from her vent:

(the blue stuff is the ointment. I decided to try it) @Eggcessive

 

[Eggcessive]

She may be leaking urates or kidney waste, which is a result of vent damage by pecking. I would just keep it clean and hopefully it will heal.

 

[GermanKennhuhn]

She may be leaking urates or kidney waste, which is a result of vent damage by pecking. I would just keep it clean and hopefully it will heal.

Ok thank you! I really appreciate your advice!

 

[Eggcessive]

You’re very welcome. I don’t have all the answers.

 

[GermanKennhuhn]

You’re very welcome. I don’t have all the answers.

You have a whole lot of them though!

 

[GermanKennhuhn]

So, I think it’s improved a bit. I clean it multiple times a day and apply Vetericyn, the Hen Healer, and occasionally Neosporin. She continually picks at it though, and I think it hinders healing How can I stop this? She’s in with a bunch of younger chicks, and they don’t pick at it. Also, why does she look so raggedy? I’m feeding them a 20% starter, and supplementing them with vitamins.

 

[Eggcessive]

Wow, she just keeps it looking sore doesn’t she? I might make up a spray bottle of a little saline (1/2 tsp of salt dissolved in 16 ounces of water,) and spray that on twice a day, and just gently bot the vent with a tissue, being very gentle not to rub. I would use just plain neosporin or vaseline on it and see if it starts healing.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Put a muffin cup tutu on her! It will help her from reaching around and picking. I promise you, she will HATE it, but she is just going to have to deal. This will likely take a week or more to heal, but I would keep her totally separate from the others for the entire time she is healing. Trust me, I've been there. To keep her familiar with the other chicks you can put her in with them with a barrier (like scrap chicken wire), but do this with supervision only. I had to keep a chick separate for three weeks due to a severe injury and the one time I tried to introduce her back early on in the injury was an enormous mistake. It was difficult to reintigrate her with the flock, she was bottom of the pecking order, but she fully healed and didn't become injured again. Today she has bffs and is no longer at the bottom.