No, don't do the emptying of the crop thing, Much to dangerous if you have never done it before. Just mix up a batch and squirt it down her throat twice a day and hopefully it helps. It can't hurt either.
Emptying of the crop is only for a really sour crop that is endangering the life of the...
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Danfan, if her crop doesn't start moving well, you could try this recipe....
http://justcockatiels.weebly.com/sour-and-slow-crop-remedies.html
I have used the "spice recipe" on baby chickens in the past and it works really well with slow crops and crops that are becoming soured, which...
Thanks Anianna, I am going to get these products and start her on it right away. Maybe because I have been doing vitamin treatments that she has not progressed to the point of complete wry neck. I can see improvements since I started her on them.
And if she doesn't actually have wry neck...
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Does wry neck always become so bad? I mean can they have a slight case of it? I thought about vitamins and possibly not enough Vitamin E so I will, a few times a week add a vitamin powder mix especially made for chickens and gamebirds, to the water and I always notice a huge...
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My bird does not have any crop issues and the bulge at the side of the neck is more of a muscular tightness, to aid this uncontrolled neck movement. What exactly IS wry neck??
The reason I ask is that I have been posting a similar question like yours to see if anyone has had a bird doing this same thing, and nobody answers. It starts out as a tiny tremor in the neck, barely visible and then over time progresses to what you are discribing, a swirving of the head...