Vent - Yellow crust

[SpicyDisaster]

Soooo what do you think I'm looking at here on my Buff Orpington pullet? Only one of our girls has this going on and we just realized it today. She is going through a super slow first molt at 9 months old. Seems perfectly normal and the only reason I caught it was her sister just had a weird stuck poo so I'm checking all the girls.

Feed: Nutrena Feather Fixer and Nutrena Grower (we have one 11 week old chick).

Treats: Black fly larvae and grubs

The nesting boxes are straw, pine shavings, and diactemous earth. I'm not sure if she is laying currently but I think she might be. (Only 3 are and one is a buff).

It's been wet, snowy and cold the last two weeks so the girls have been hunkered down not doing much.

I have a head cold so it smells funky to me, hubby says it smells like celery and that this is NOT his favorite thing to be doing

Also, vent photos are ridiculously difficult to manage wow!

 

[SpicyDisaster]

Oh and she's pooped on my floor twice. Normal soft poo.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

More normal-colored poo this morning, the girls are voicing their displeasure at being kept in the separation tank. Little do they know they are missing out on 4" of snow outside. Going to try to wash Buffulu and see if maybe it's just a one-time thing that got stuck on her emerging pin feathers.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

@Wyorp Rock

 

[SpicyDisaster]

Still not sure what's up with my girl, gonna keep cataloging so this can be searched by others if they ever run into the same thing.

Looked at some other threads and found a suggested way to clean vents by using a five gallon bucket. So I filled one with about 6" of water and put Buffulu in it. Kiddo held her down to keep her vent under water while letting her head be above the side of the bucket. This worked awesome, a little soak, a little rub, a little more soak, a little more rub, then a rinse.

So now she's got a decently clean vent. I'm wondering if maybe with the pin feathers are just hasn't been able to clean herself well. Gonna keep an eye on her and hope it doesn't come back. She's on Hen Boost in her water and sequestered with her bestie Nila (our partial prolapse suspect who gave us our only egg today). Fingers crossed!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It's good that you cleaned her up. Possibly just a dirty butt, but I'd keep an eye on it. You could also give her a clean up (just wipe her vent) with diluted ACV, then apply an antifungal cream just in case this is the start of Vent Gleet.

Is her crop emptying overnight?

 

[SpicyDisaster]

It's good that you cleaned her up. Possibly just a dirty butt, but I'd keep an eye on it. You could also give her a clean up (just wipe her vent) with diluted ACV, then apply an antifungal cream just in case this is the start of Vent Gleet.

Is her crop emptying overnight?

Thanks for replying, I appreciate your insight! I'll do the ACV wipe tomorrow though I'll need to run into town to get an antifungal.

Crop emptying I'm not sure, I believe so and plan to check early tomorrow morning. She got into the food before I had a chance to check this morning.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

Crop was empty this morning and her but is back to having a slight build=up of yellow crust. I'm going to head into town today and see if I can get some miconazole or clotrimazol.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

Day 3 of acv wipes and miconazole cream, Buffulu is not a fan. I'm not really seeing improvement but it's also not getting worse. Ordered some fluconozole to see if it's an internal thing. It doesn't seem to be bothering her necessarily but I don't want it to get worse and become a problem.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

Back in the bath. Topical application is not something she suffers through lightly so I'm bringing her inside to do an oral round of ketaconazole now that our sour crop girl is healthy and back outside. Between yesterday and today poor girl had some feathers torn out so I'll be putting Vetiracyn on it after her bath. Out of epsom salts so just a warm water soak today, ACV wipe, Vetiracyn and blow dry spa treatment. I really wish I knew definitively what was going on.