Help!! black maran with vent gleet and foamy yellow poop

Good_Dawning

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Mar 31, 2025
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Good afternoon, I hope you are all well and I hope that you can help me with my issue. I recently picked up two hens from a licensed breeder, one had severe vent gleet, overgrown beaks and no idea how to be chickens which was awful to see. I am currently giving her Epsom salt baths up to 3 times a week, and using miconazole, I have wormed and given probiotics, but now she has yellow foamy poop, i’m worried I’m changing too much too soon however I’m really anxious about losing her, as hardy as our little hens can be it seems they can turn quite quickly. Any and all advice is very much welcome please help. The vent gleet is improving however I am now worried about the cause of the poop. I was told she was vaccinated and now I’m worried she probably hasn’t been. She isn’t at the point of lay but that should only be a few weeks away.
 

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What is your general location? Chicken keeping should not be so hard to buy new hens and end up with one that is sick. I don’t know what a licensed breeder is. There is always a risk of buying sick birds when you get them from breeders. I would have asked to return the birds in the beginning. The yellow poop sample looks to be cecal with some normal in it. Cecal poop smells stronger, is sticky and occurs a couple of times a day. Cecal poop is from the 2 ceca, between the small and large intestines, where food is fermented. You are on the right track to treat her with miconazole orally twice a day and on the vent. Are you checking her crop first thing in the morning before eating and drinking to see if it is emptying overnight? Can you discribe it?
 

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