Prolapse or gleet? Maybe both.

bluejett · #1 03/01/11, 01:38 PM

I have a 1 yr old leghorn that has a prolapse, she popped it out about three days ago and has been in a dog cage in the house since.
I put preparation H on her and pushed it in gently, it stayed for a few hours but came out once she passed feces (which is very small), she's also draining urate frequently and the ammonia is bad which makes me wonder if it is gleet? or both a prolapse and a small case of vent gleet. I've never experienced either vent gleet or prolapse in a bird in my short years of bird keeping so I'm at a loss. She also had her vent picked at so it's scabbing over which makes it harder to get back in once it comes out.

I'm at a loss, at first I put preparation H topped with honey then I wondered if it was gleet so I switched to fungal cream topped with honey just in case it was a prolapse too.

What do you all think it is?

Thanks

bluejett · #2 03/02/11, 01:09 AM

No one has any idea?

I'm going to treat it as a prolapse, I think it's just urates coming out. She seems to be doing good today, I was able to push the prolapse in without it popping back out.

Shygal · #3 03/02/11, 01:38 AM

I....dont know what gleet is

Cyngbaeld · #4 03/02/11, 05:42 AM

Sorry, I was very busy yesterday and didn't see this. Definitely a prolapse. If it has been pecked the tissue will slough off and she may get gangrene. It is really best to go ahead and cull the bird as it will happen again and you may not get to her before she is pecked to death.

bluejett · #5 03/02/11, 09:27 AM

I was initially going to cull without attempting treatment after she kept popping back out but she's not my bird and I've been told not to so I'm doing my best to save her. Culling really would have saved me the mess but no one around here understands the whole cull to prevent further pain idea...

She also gets aspirin for pain, last night I didn't give her one and before I put her to bed everything went back into place I never heard her make any noise so I think she should make it. I will keep her inside for a while longer to prevent laying and let her muscles heal.
I wonder if I'll be able to catch her after all of this, she eats out in front of me without trembling now , she's one of those birds that run into fences repetitively trying to get away from nothing.

Thanks for the replies

Also- gleet is similar to a yeast infection in humans and can be treated the same way, the symptoms are draining clear/cloudy fluid consistently and fluffed feathers.

theporkstork · #6 03/02/11, 10:00 AM

Shygal, vent gleet is a form of herpes in chickens, particularly found in males. It has a very strong, offensive odor

bluejett · #7 03/02/11, 11:45 AM

Vent gleet is the opposite more commonly found in hens rarely roosters and it was debated about herpes being the cause, I've noticed that herpes is an older theory and fungal is now how it is treated.

Cyngbaeld · #8 03/02/11, 12:43 PM

Good luck. Keep her in the dark and maybe she won't lay for a while.

**mygoat** · #9 03/02/11, 01:44 PM

If the chicken is suffering, I'd just put it down and tell the owner that you found it dead when you went to check on it. I don't like letting things suffer.

bluejett · #10 03/02/11, 02:25 PM

Thanks,

I don't like letting them suffer either, but the "owner" is my father he buys my flocks (my choice whatever I want

), I care for them and the family gets free eggs, I wouldn't do that to him. I've tried explaining the situation but I can't get through to him.

This is helping me further understand prolapse, sad to say but she is my test bird of what to do, I don't think I'm doing too bad so far, the draining has stopped and I haven't gotten a full blown prolapse in two days.

Honey is God's miracle medicine!