Weird Question: Accidentally got Blu-Kote in Chicken's vent

[buffy-the-eggpile-layer]

I know Blu-kote isn't the best and there are all kinds of warnings about it. For this reason, I avoid it with one exception: I only use it a few times a year on a chicken who always has the area around her vent pecked when she molts (and she always molts in the summer). I've tried Pick-no-more, but it comes off rather quickly and doesn't work as well.

Anyway, my poor girl is getting her blood feathers around her vent pecked all bloody, and even the skin starts to get pecked. I put some Blu-Kote on the area, and it does the trick--one coat lasts a week or more, and everyone leaves her alone. Unfortunately, I needed to re-apply today and things took a turn. She protested as I was trying to get it on the skin *around* her vent, and when she bucked, I accidentally got it in her vent (not far in, but on the outside of the mucous membrane area as opposed to the surrounding skin). I'm a bit freaked out because I know blu-kote shouldn't be used internally or on mucous membranes. I feel so badly that she now has a blue butthole. Will she be okay? I tried to wash it off, but was worried I was getting it further in, and the dye seems to have taken already.

Needless to say, I'm officially going back to Pick-no-more a few times a day instead.

 

[Eggcessive]

It shouldn’t a problem. It has alcohol in it which can sting a little, and it has gentian violet. That medication used to be painted inside babies’ mouths to treat thrush or fungal infection years ago. Although it is no longer used for that in this country, no one died from it.

 

[buffy-the-eggpile-layer]

It shouldn’t a problem. It has alcohol in it which can sting a little, and it has gentian violet. That medication used to be painted inside babies’ mouths to treat thrush or fungal infection years ago. Although it is no longer used for that in this country, no one died from it.

That puts me at ease. Thank you. Everything online makes it seem super dangerous/toxic and even cancer-causing. I don't love the stuff but it seems to be what works best for this specific annual problem.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

x2, agree. I use Blu Kote, she'll be fine.

 

[buffy-the-eggpile-layer]

x2, agree. I use Blu Kote, she'll be fine.

Thank you! I felt so bad getting it literally in her butt, the poor thing. I don't use it often but it's been so helpful for vent pecking.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

That puts me at ease. Thank you. Everything online makes it seem super dangerous/toxic and even cancer-causing. I don't love the stuff but it seems to be what works best for this specific annual problem.

I think she will be fine!
If she's still laying eggs, you'll have a blue smear on the eggs for a short period of time

I've used blu Kote to paint a small spot on a vent to be able to I.D. eggs from a particular hen I wanted to hatch from.

 

[buffy-the-eggpile-layer]

I think she will be fine!
If she's still laying eggs, you'll have a blue smear on the eggs for a short period of time

I've used blu Kote to paint a small spot on a vent to be able to I.D. eggs from a particular hen I wanted to hatch from.

So relieving to know--thank you!!