I have a young Ameraucana that had an extended crop... looked so big. I caught her and massaged the crop... felt soft, so I thought it was ok. I was thinking if it was hard, then that was bad. But a friend told me it was probably sour crop since it was liquidy. I read and read on here last night into the early morning hours. I decided to give her vinegar water and yogurt and oil and massage the crop. I was not going to try to get her to vomit it up because I feared she could drown. Well, I massaged and then I thought I saw something on her neck, so I was pushing the feathers up which just tilted her head downward a bit (she was sitting in my lap) and she started vomiting up liquid. It wasn't a terrible smell... hardly anything solid, just mostly liquids. I gave more oil and yogurt, and massaged, more vomiting. I repeated several times. The last time she did not vomit. I felt what I think is the impacted part in there now. I am not sure... I am just guessing. I massaged it really well, tried to massage in the center of it and press different ways in the hopes of breaking it up. I am going to feed yogurt, applesauce mix for awhile and give vinegar water. Will also give a bit of liquid vitamins on a small piece of bread and see if the crop continues to go down and not get bigger again. I will continue to massage everyday, as often as possible.
Is there anything else I should do? I heard that Nystatin might be helpful?
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