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    Crop empty, chicken can't swallow food

    GREAT NEWS! Nancy is fully recovered :D We had to crop feed her in the end because she was not able to eat enough to gain weight. Good thing one of our neighbours has had chickens for decades so he was able to help. Nancy is actually not my chicken, I have just been helping my landlord look...
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    Crop empty, chicken can't swallow food

    Another update: Nancy is doing better! :) Still recovering but she is now able to fill her own crop and drink by herself. She has a little bit of canker left in her mouth. Nancy also sometimes gets quite a bit of mucus in her mouth (I suspect it's her microplasma peaking through because her...
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    Crop empty, chicken can't swallow food

    So Nancy actually ate a couple green peas and pecked some grass by herself! :D It's a small start but its a great sign. She has also been dipping her beak into water but not quite drinking enough yet so we are still aiding her with water and food. The medicine administration has been quite...
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    Crop empty, chicken can't swallow food

    I went to the vets with Nancy and it was indeed canker :) Thank you for the suggestions! They prescribed the Metronidazole as Eggcesive suggested (in runny liquid form, 0.6ml once a day - slightly larger dose to account for some liquid escaping. We are to use it until we finish up the medicine...
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    Crop empty, chicken can't swallow food

    I will visit the vets tomorrow, hopefully they have the medicine in stock. Often chicken medicine needs to be ordered in as our local vets don't normally get chicken patients. I will keep everyone updated. Nancy does not look too bad at the moment, so I am sure now knowing what she is suffering...
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    Crop empty, chicken can't swallow food

    A dropper I think it's called in some places as well. I just loaded the pipette (it can hold 3ml of liquid) and my friend held Nancy's mouth open and I poured it in her mouth towards the throat. Doing it little by little allowed her to swallow some food (yogurt/pellet smoothie). If I gave her...
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    Crop empty, chicken can't swallow food

    Also we managed to clear up the food blockage by giving her water through a pipette which made Nancy sneeze. After a couple of turns, we could begin to see the real problem underneath the food.
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    Crop empty, chicken can't swallow food

    Thank you all for the replies. I managed to get some help to take a picture of Nancy's throat. Here is a picture of her. We also gave her a bit of water, couple drops of olive oil and a yogurt/pellet smoothie through a pipette to give her a bit more energy. She doesn't seem to be drinking on her...
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    Crop empty, chicken can't swallow food

    My Nancy has been having trouble swallowing for about a week now. I first noticed that she would start to eat less than the other 3 chickens we have so I checked her crop, and at the time, it was full. So I massaged it a couple times a day for 2 days thinking she will be able to start swallowing...
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