Hanging in there. The nystatin keeps the crop down but it’s definitely slow. She may have water belly but the doctor didn’t pick up any heart, liver issues, internal egg or large tumours. It could be an infection somewhere or smaller tumours.
The crop went down significantly overnight after one dose of antibiotics and antifungal. The antibiotic is Amoxiclav
We are going to try to figure out the underlying cause at the vet on Monday. Hopefully an xray can tell us more.
She is pooping now. She only stopped pooping for about 12...
OK so the vet just called me and said there was no fungal overgrowth in the crop liquid that she had tested. She recommended we stop the nystatin, but I'm nervous because I assumed it was helping.
The vet had given one antibiotic pill when she was here and prescribed more to start in a couple...
Thank you. So we have started her on Nystatin, which is helping a lot. It's very difficult to administer because we have to give her 8mL and she is so incredibly wiggly. I've medicated other chickens, and none have been this difficult. She was squirting liquid as we were trying to get her first...
Update: We let her out of the crate to walk around a bit, which made her quite happy. She pooped a small amount of clear white mucisy poop, with some greenish blobs in it. I'm glad she got that out, but still worried. I have been reading and researching and there is so much conflicting...
Big Bertha is a nearly 2 year old red sex link. Two days ago we noticed she wasn't really eating. Her crop was big and squishy and she was kind of burping and moving her neck funny. We checked her crop yesterday morning and it wasn't any smaller. When I picked her up, she spit out some brown...