Posts by montanamidwife

oh,geez, I thought I had avoided that. I don't think it is impacted, just a really nasty case of sour crop...  

Help Again! Now my hen is eating ferociously but again has a giant swollen crop and terrible green diarrhea. She just stands around eating and pooping and acting hungry and droopy at the same time and moving very very slowly. By the...

Well, I dont know if she is all better yet but I think she will live, at any rate. I had to do the nasty crop milking thing again and I got quite a bit more hay out this time. I gave her some good AVC with the Mother in her water, and...

Is anyone out there? So I turned my chicken upside down and massaged her huge swollen crop and she suddenly ejected an enormous quantity of the most foul-smelling, greenish-grey liquid you can imagine, all over me. Then, after I...

Ok, I did figure out it was sour crop, not an impaction. I use horse hay for bedding, so she might have eaten some. Thanks California Chickie for the advice. I will go get her right now and lock her into a dog crate. She is very very...

ok so my hen now has developed this gigantic swollen crop, about the size of an orange, soft and gushy. She is definitely "off".....

I have a three year old Americauna, lays maybe 3-4 eggs/week. My seven hens are normally allowed to run around in my large yard all day but I am doing a  massive remodel/roofing project so I locked them in their run a week ago....