As I’ve written before, one of our OG chickens, Penelope, got fly strike. She is also unable to move one of her feet. She has been living in our house for a while now. I’m sure she is going to be here until she goes to the big farm in the sky. She had been doing really well. Two days ago I noticed that when I got her out of her night nest there was liquid soaked into the pad. A quick Google search told me that she has vent gleet. That is just a fancy term for a yeast infection.

We got her vitamins and probiotics that you just mix into water. This morning I noticed that there was only a little bit of liquid on her pad which is a huge deal. If she wasn’t getting better we were going to have to tube feed her to make sure she was eating the foods that will get rid of the gleet.

From everything I’ve read, it’s not a hard process but it sounds awful to me. We would have to open her mouth and make sure the tube goes down the right side of her throat and not into her airway.

We give her Epsom salt baths every few days that she seems to enjoy.

This is her night nest. I cover it up with the quilt so that she feels safer.

During the day she prefers this spot. I think it’s because it’s out of the way of the a/c. She can move around. Sometimes she’ll flap her wings and move that way or she’ll just hop.

She’s been eating the plain yogurt that we started her on yesterday so I think that is helping quite a bit. I do take her outside and stay with her but truthfully she enjoys being inside more. She is just such a sweet hen and has always been my favorite so we are going to keep chugging along and hope she keeps doing well.