vent gleet

Hello, I have a heartbreaking question that I would love to get advice on. My bantam hen is about 5 years old, one of my brooder mamas whose idea of a perfect life is to sit in her nest box all day. She is still laying and hasn't had any trouble before. Today I notice her vent was extremely...

Hello, I have been trying to treat my hen for vent gleet for a couple months now. I've used a regimen of yogurt, cider vinegar, and daily cleaned her rump. Unfortunately, I had to go out fo town for 10 days in there and then had to have surgery and so I've been unable to care for her as I was...

Hi I have five hens, two are very old now and don't lay often at all and one is laying perfectly but the two others have stopped totally in the last 10 days. They're not broody, we haven't made any big changes to anything but they won't lay. Today I examined their vents and pulled a long white...

I treated both hens affected for vent gleet and while I was doing that I saw small white balls at the base of feathers on their bums. Any idea what that is?

Hi all! Earlier this year we lost our Black Australorp to a very bad case of vent gleet and starvation (she stopped eating). Since then the 3 remaining hens have all come down with vent gleet about once a month or every 6 weeks. We bathe them, treat with an athletes foot cream, clean the coop...