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Oh no, I'm so sorry for you & your roo!! 😭 Poor guy, that's just heartbreaking. From what I learned, it doesn't seem like there is any treatment if they eat a gypsy moth caterpillar...but you certainly did everything you could to make him feel comfortable and loved in his last days. Small...

I just looked up some info, and apparently the hairy caterpillars are to be avoided, especially gypsy moth caterpillars which can kill chickens if ingested... do you remember if the ones you saw were hairy or smooth? It might be good to look up the species you saw for an ID, to determine if that...

Aww poor guy! Yeah from everything you're describing I definitely suspect a toxin... my best guess is that he ate one of those poisonous caterpillars, it likely made his crop swollen which caused the impaction, and he's trying to shake the lingering effects of the toxin. His crop is probably...

Oh! It stands for apple cider vinegar. 😉

Oof, yeah I would suspect a toxin if the rest of your flock isn't affected - he very well might have eaten a bad caterpillar or something! Usually the bright colored ones are poisonous. I would consider it lucky that he didn't get worse! I'm glad his impacted crop has cleared out, seems like...

I just saw this thread - sorry your Roo is having such a hard time!! I've had a few chickies with this issue, fortunately not many! My go-to for impacted crop is tepid water with a bit of raw apple cider vinegar, maybe a cap-full for every 2 cups of water. I administer it in 5ml oral syringes...