Young pullet please HELP!

[BethMatt]

I have an 18 week old barred rock Pullet, she started acting funny a week ago, she stays by herself tail down and lethargic. I finally caught her today and checked her vent a very foul smelling swollen yellow in color & A clump of feathers with poop and what looked like little worms or white like maggots or lice? I'm not sure but I'm positive this is her problem what can I do to help her? Epsom salt bath or Dawn dish liquid and vinegar bath I don't know how to treat her please help I'm new at this

 

[emmaie892000]

It sounds like vent gleet possibly, or just poop that caused flystrike.
The yellow could also have been a shell-less egg that stuck on her feathers. It's hard to say.
Here's an article on vent gleet.
http://www.tillysnest.com/2012/12/vent-gleet-prevention-and-treatment.html

The white things you saw are probably maggots. Flies will lay eggs on live hens, often under their vents, if there are the right conditions. Firstly, you need to bring her in and clean everything that you can. Soak her bottom in warm water, see what you're dealing with. Remove any maggots and fly eggs you see. If you can't clean her feathers entirely you may need to clip a few. Look for open wounds near her vent. Maggots will begin to eat a hole, it depends on how long they've been there. Hopefully that isn't the case.
Basically, separate her and clean her up, then report back.

 

[BethMatt]

It sounds like vent gleet possibly, or just poop that caused flystrike.
The yellow could also have been a shell-less egg that stuck on her feathers. It's hard to say.
Here's an article on vent gleet.
http://www.tillysnest.com/2012/12/vent-gleet-prevention-and-treatment.html

The white things you saw are probably maggots. Flies will lay eggs on live hens, often under their vents, if there are the right conditions. Firstly, you need to bring her in and clean everything that you can. Soak her bottom in warm water, see what you're dealing with. Remove any maggots and fly eggs you see. If you can't clean her feathers entirely you may need to clip a few. Look for open wounds near her vent. Maggots will begin to eat a hole, it depends on how long they've been there. Hopefully that isn't the case.
Basically, separate her and clean her up, then report back. 

I gave her a soak, cleaned the entire area & couldn't see any open wounds...but I put vetex around her vent, dried her off & put her back in the run, she is still just standing around un-interested in foraging, or eating..

 

[emmaie892000]

She could have an illness that caused the poop to accumulate in the first place, the flystrike might have just been a result.
What have the poops in the coop been like, her's in particular?

 

[Eggcessive]

Here are many threads about fly strike with pictures and stories of how different people treated it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/newsearch?search=fly+strike

 

[BethMatt]

Here are many threads about fly strike with pictures and stories of how different people treated it:  https://www.backyardchickens.com/newsearch?search=fly+strike

She could have an illness that caused the poop to accumulate in the first place, the flystrike might have just been a result.
What have the poops in the coop been like, her's in particular?

This morning she doesn't appear to be any better, she's laying on the coop for not interested in coming out but still eating and drinking when given to her, I caught her again and checked her vent still yellowish in color and swollen a bit. I noticed one of my other hens had a Poopy bottom, so I investigated her and found little straw colored pesticides, i'm assuming it's lice I wonder if that could be my other pullers problem I just cannot see them on her? I will be treating them both today to a vinegar Dawn dish liquid bath , then dusting them both with DE

 

[Eggcessive]

The maggots can be up inside of her vent, so you could put on a rubber glove and poke a finger inside 1-2 inches to see if any come out in the water. There are products like SWAT or Prozap screw worm spray that work on maggots around the vent. ProZap is 5% permethrin, and 10% permethrin spray or garden dust is available to treat for lice or mites. DE will not help if there is an infestation. Here are some good links to read about lice and mites, with pictures:
http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8162.pdf
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/08/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification.html
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ig140