I think I'd try a flush.
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I did the flush yesterday morning by offering the molasses solution for 8 hours (went ahead and let all 4 birds have it) then switched back to clean water with probiotics (I’ve been making up fresh probiotic water each day while she was on the miconazole… which yesterday was her last day of the 7 day treatment). Her poop last night looks pretty much like all the recent photos I’ve posted. Crop very full of food and water when she goes to roost at night and then is very firm and doughy in the AM. I have copper sulfate being delivered today. Should I try it or do another round of miconazole? Or do another molasses flush? I am wondering at this point if she is impacted further down the digestive tract. Last night I saw her EAT two pieces of the pine shavings that I use on the floor of the coop and on the nest boxes (I use dry mulched up leaves that we collect each fall in their covered run and attached covered run).I think I'd try a flush.
Well, a flush might work that way if she drinks enough of the solution.
Usually you just give it to the individual in a short period of time, this ensures they actually drink it or if needed you tube/syringe the solution into them.
1 teaspoon to 1/4 cup warm water is what you want to give as a flush.
I never had any real confirmation that her crop was ever sour. No smell, just doughy and never completely empty. So based on the length of time that it stayed full it was recommended by several here that I treat it with the miconazole twice daily for 7 days which I did. I will do the flush this morning. Can you confirm that I should be letting her stay with the flock and eat and drink as she pleases while I am treating her?Is her crop still sour?
You've given miconazole twice a day for 7 days correct? I'd see if the flush makes a difference. It's almost like she's got a blockage, so getting things moving may resolve it all.
I agree… she needs the nutrients!A crop that is doughy, generally will be turning sour, so I agree, treating as such is always a good idea.
See how she does after the flush and if the crop begins to empty.
I never withhold food/water from any bird that I'm treating for a crop problem. Some people do, but I don't.