MonarchMama
In the Brooder
- Nov 6, 2021
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One of my newer young silkies (less than 5 months old) has been having loose stools. On October 29th we realized that something was wrong with her vent. It looked like it had built up, dried Stool on the inside of it and was swollen and red. After talking to a local chicken nurse and treating her with oil and warm water compresses she was only getting worse. She was seen by the nurse on October 31st and she said the tissue inside her vent was dying. She removed all the "dead tissue"..to me it still just looked like dried poop, gave her an antibiotic injection and we've been treating it with warm water washes and antibiotic ointment. It was looking great until this morning when we saw more dark, white and pink tissue inside her vent. We also found mites and lice on her today. We treated her (with poultry protector mite/lice spray)for the bugs and removed all we could find on her. She has been kept inside In a dog crate on a potty pad (which we change several times a day)since the 29th and we are feeding her wetted down chick starter mixed with powdered oatmeal and cooked mashed pumpkin and she has clean fresh water to drink. She is eating and drinking just fine.Today she had what looked like some blood in one of her loose stools. The chicken nurse is coming tomorrow and is worried she might have cancer that is inside, working it's way outside to the vent. I'm praying it's not cancer! She is tiny as it is because she's so young and is a silkie. Our other 5 hens have no bugs(I checked them all today), no diarrhea and no vent issues. They are housed in a 10ft×10ft dog kennel that is wrapped in chicken wire and covered by chicken kennel sides(chain link fence), and a tarp. They have a wooden coop within the kennel where they go at night. We are located in Massachusetts and have been using a coop heater overnight since it's been in the low 30's overnight.. The first 2 pictures were taken today, as well as the last picture of her loose Stool. The other 3 pictures were taken last weekend before the nurse removed the "dead tissue". Has anyone ever had this issue? I'm looking for possible causes and best remedies to treat it. We don't have any vet's in our area that treat chickens, only the chicken nurse.
