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Antibiotics will only make a sour crop worse. A sour crop is basically a yeast/fungal infection. The crop normally has a large amount of good bacteria in it. The crop is a storage tank for food waiting to be moved into the stomach and gizzard. This high concentration of good bacteria keep the...

Go easy on the oil. Many people think oil helps an ailing crop when in fact oil is very hard for a chicken to digest. If they have any impactions in the intestines, oil will only gum up the works. So just use it sparingly. :-)

Those movements of adjustments of the crop (when they have an issue going on) generally means a lot of yeasts are growing in the crop. Crops can itch. Sometimes you will even see the bird lift their right leg really high and scratch their crop from the outside. Keep the bird vomited in the...

Oh and you do not need to separate her because she has sour crop. It is not contagious.

Hello there and welcome to BYC! It depends on why she has sour crop. If it is a simple case of sour crop, eating some moist layer feed, staying away from all hard foods and putting some probiotics in the water and keeping them vomited each morning, generally they can clear up on their own in a...