What the heck is this smelky thing?

[Ironduccle]

So when I was putting the birds to bed last night I noticed this girl had THE WORST BO I HAVE EVER SMELLED. She had discharge around her vent so we brought her in, soaked, trimmed and washed her and ended up with this. When we tried to scrub more of the brown off she bled so we stopped. I dried her put on bacareacin spray and put her in the hospital coop. The birds just got their winter preventative Corrid last week. Nothing else has changed. We were just tested for npip last week and there were no mites in the flock-55 birds. Anyone know what is going on?

 

[SurferchickinSB]

So when I was putting the birds to bed last night I noticed this girl had THE WORST BO I HAVE EVER SMELLED. She had discharge around her vent so we brought her in, soaked, trimmed and washed her and ended up with this. When we tried to scrub more of the brown off she bled so we stopped. I dried her put on bacareacin spray and put her in the hospital coop. The birds just got their winter preventative Corrid last week. Nothing else has changed. We were just tested for npip last week and there were no mites in the flock-55 birds. Anyone know what is going on?
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Oh no! It looks like she has fly strike to me. I think you need to soak her in Epson salt water and get rid of all those maggots . It appears that she has maggots and she probably smells that because of decay. I have never had to deal with that before, but I am always horrified I will have to one day. I hope somebody on here can give you more advice or you can look at the articles on the site and get recommendations of what to do. I would try to just keep her clean and keep her separated from the other chickens so they do not pick at the wound.

 

[Eggcessive]

To me it looks like their might be some vent pecking going on, and probably vent gleet, which is a fungal (yeast) infection. I would soak her vent area for 20 minutes daily in some warm Epsom salts water, and try to scrub off a bit of the crust around her vent. Then apply Nustock cream to the vent. Nystatin can be used orally, but some people have used monistat or clotrimazole cream. You can get Nystatin here :
https://allbirdproducts.com/products/medistatin

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is some reading about vent gleet symptoms:
https://www.tillysnest.com/2012/12/vent-gleet-prevention-and-treatment-html/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/vent-gleet-aka-nasty-chicken-butt.64647/

 

[Ironduccle]

To me it looks like their might be some vent pecking going on, and probably vent gleet, which is a fungal (yeast) infection. I would soak her vent area for 20 minutes daily in some warm Epsom salts water, and try to scrub off a bit of the crust around her vent. Then apply Nustock cream to the vent. Nystatin can be used orally, but some people have used monistat or clotrimazole cream. You can get Nystatin here :
https://allbirdproducts.com/products/medistatin

Thank you. We'll give it a go.never heard of gleet before.

 

[Ironduccle]

Oh no! It looks like she has fly strike to me. I think you need to soak her in Epson salt water and get rid of all those maggots . It appears that she has maggots and she probably smells that because of decay. I have never had to deal with that before, but I am always horrified I will have to one day. I hope somebody on here can give you more advice or you can look at the articles on the site and get recommendations of what to do. I would try to just keep her clean and keep her separated from the other chickens so they do not pick at the wound.

Thank you

 

[dawg53]

It's Vent Gleet. The foul odor is a dead giveaway as well as the messy rear end. Follow @Eggcessive 's advice and use Nystatin.
Here's another link for you:
https://www.mypetchicken.com/backya...s-vent-gleet-and-how-can-I-treat-my-H491.aspx

 

[Ironduccle]

Thank you

It's Vent Gleet. The foul odor is a dead giveaway as well as the messy rear end. Follow @Eggcessive 's advice and use Nystatin.
Here's another link for you:
https://www.mypetchicken.com/backya...s-vent-gleet-and-how-can-I-treat-my-H491.aspx

 

[Ironduccle]

Thank you

Poor girl. Yeast infections are no fun. I never even heard of this until today. We've had chickens for 10 years and never seen anything like it. I'll get her nystatin on the way home tonight.

 

[Eggcessive]

You can buy Nustock cream topical in the horse suppies in some feed stores and online. It can be applied to the clean vent once or twice daily.

The Nystatin (Medistatin) for oral use is prescription only except for ordering online:
https://allbirdproducts.com/products/medistatin and
https://www.jedds.com/shop/medistatin/
The antifungal creams clotrimazole or monistat are sometimes used orally 1/2 inch given twice a day for fungal infections, such as sour crop or vent gleet. So I would use the above medistatin or one of those orally.