sour crop

  1. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Crop Not Emptying Fully (but not impacted nor sour, yet?)

    Bear with me, because this is a complex issue that might have multiple factors at play. I appreciate anyone willing to take the time to read and respond to this. My 27 month old EE has recently started having issues with her crop not fully emptying at night. She is overall healthy, but does have...
  2. Blue Raptor

    Speckled Sussex acting strange...

    Dr. Grant, my speckled Sussex, is walking around and not really doing anything. I felt her crop, and I suspected sour crop, so I’m doing my treatment for that now. (Layer pellets with water to make an oatmeal-like consistency, and kefir on the top. It has always worked for me.) Grant has gotten...
  3. B

    Severe feather loss

    Hi all. I am hoping you can help me! I have an astrolorp that is consistantly losing feathers and is about to lose them all at this rate. Her feathers are missing on her bottom and now her entire chest. I have read on molting, impacted crop, sour crop... the list is long. This is my first...
  4. Angileen

    Sour Crop Medication

    I have a chicken with sour crop and searched all over the internet for Nystatin for birds. I finally found a site that actually has some in stock so I figured I would share it with everyone. The site is Jedds bird supply and here is the link. https://www.jedds.com/ You can buy it in a powder...
  5. veetown707

    Odd bald spot with an odor on my hen

    I have a hen who is definitely getting up in years now. I've had her 6 years, she was full grown when I got her. Anyway, she still is very active and spunky normally. I recently dealt with 2 problems simultaneously with her. We had a Northern fowl mite infestation which I treated with warm baths...
  6. H

    Very bad sour crop!

    I have a chicken with a sour crop that will not empty. I’ve given her oils, yogurt, Acv and massaged her crop many times over the last few days and nothing seems to work, her crop is always a full water balloon and she’s getting more and more lethargic each day. I’ve had this hen since I was in...
  7. K

    Sour crop help needed, possibly impacted

    Nugget is a 3 year old Novagen and is the last of my first batch of hens. As a first time owner I started with only three so I wouldnt be overwhelmed with my new experience. I have read this site since day one and truly appreciate all of the knowledge here and I continue to learn things here...
  8. H

    Sour/impacted crop help

    One of my hens, a overall healthy 9 year old hen was acting strange a few days ago but the next day she seemed fine, I’m guessing at that point she just had a slowish crop. 2 days ago I noticed the hen acting much more lethargic so I checked her crop and it felt like a full water balloon and her...
  9. R

    Orpington Hen With Crop Issues. Gas in Crop Today. (Been Observing for Two Weeks. Long Post.)

    My darling Pomona (lavender Orpington hen, a little over two years old) has been having crop issues that we've been observing for two weeks, with a vet visit in between. We don't know what's going on, and would appreciate some guidance. I've written all our observations for background, but...
  10. Barredrocker99

    Sour crop

    Hello all! I hope all your feathery friends and yourselves are having a lovely day! I have an EE(Gurdy... ironic!) who I believe has sour crop. She’s always been very friendly, so when she came up to me yesterday and I picked her up, nothing seemed out of the norm. That is until a very sour...
  11. Silling

    Hen aspirated. PLEASE HELP

    My sweet girl Diamond is a 1 year old Barred Rock. She has sour crop and is lethargic. I've given her some ACV already and will continue to do so. But yesterday when I picked her up her crop was so full and watery that she vomited all over me. She coughed and spluttered so I am pretty sure...
  12. B

    3 wk old chick severe sour crop? Help

    Hello- my little girl who had wry neck already and a rupture air sac(that I “popped”) in her short life and impacted crop now I believe has sour crop! She has a huge balloon in her crop (center of chest, don’t think it’s an air sac) and is vomiting often. She’s clearly starving but can’t hold...
  13. Lala425

    Help!! My chicken has sour crop!

    Hello everyone, I have a two year old chicken who is suffering from sour crop. I have been reading all of the suggestion and feel like I have tried everything. I'm not sure what to do next. I noticed my hen had a weird crop spasm one night when I was putting them to bed, so I took her in and...
  14. NatureGirl74

    Sour crop?

    I went to check for eggs and found one of my hens licking her beak a lot. Then, she put her head down and a little clear fluid came out. She started licking her beak again after that. She's still eating and drinking. She acts like all of the other chickens. Does she have sour crop? What should I...
  15. D

    Bulging crop hard, chicken lethargic

    I have a buff orpington hen, the smallest of the bunch, who got into a bag of whole corn, possibly alfalfa pellets and grit I think. The day after, her crop was massive and hard. Today she is less lethargic but seems to have a similiar size crop. I don’t want to do surgery!! Is there a solution...
  16. Three Musketeers

    HOW TO TREAT SOUR CROP - (SEEMINGLY EFFECTIVE - UPDATED)

    Updated: March, 17th 2021. Hi all, This is my first post on this forum, so hopefully I am posting this in the right section. *DISCLAIMER [1]: I'd like to start off by stating that it is always best to go to a veterinarian - specifically one specialized in poultry if possible. I am currently...
  17. Fuzzy Chicky Mama

    URGENT HELP Chicken Post-op Crop Surgery

    I performed surgery an hour ago to remove the impaction in my year-old Silkie's crop because she looked like she was on deaths doorstep when I woke up this morning. I found out she was sick two days ago when she became lethargic, I started her on antibiotics for sour crop yesterday. I sanitized...
  18. Three Musketeers

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  19. M

    How long to feel better after sour crop recovery?

    Hello! I've been using the wonderful info from this site for the past three years, and this is my very first post! Question: I noticed I had a lethargic chicken last Tuesday - wouldn't even come out for mealworms. When I picked her up, she had the telltale squishy crop - not super big, but...
  20. Clucking_Caramel

    Vomiting hen not eating and is weak

    My hen Pearl was eating less and less, so we brought her inside. My stepdad noticed her crop was squishy, and pressed on it to see if she'd throw up. According to him it was A LOT and it was yellow and smelled badly. Then, a sac of orange came out of her mouth like a blob, that splattered on the...
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