16 Days Old and Impacted Crop!?

[EricaCAL]

Hello all! I am looking for some help with one of my chicks. She has what looks like an impacted crop tonight. It was swollen and not clear but yellowish and firmer than it was last night. It looks like its the food in there and I am hoping it just needs to be digested overnight? I took out the food dish so she couldn't eat anymore and I added Nutri-Drench to their water. Does that seem to be a good idea or should I just be offering plain water?

I plan to check her at first light tomorrow (5:00am) and see if its gone down on its own. If not, should I take her to a Vet? I am so worried! I dont want to lose another chick!!! Any help you can offer would be super appreciated!

 

[dfalco]

Maybe this will help:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...d-sour-crops-prevention-and-treatments.67194/

 

[DuckPro]

Hello all! I am looking for some help with one of my chicks. She has what looks like an impacted crop tonight. It was swollen and not clear but yellowish and firmer than it was last night. It looks like its the food in there and I am hoping it just needs to be digested overnight? I took out the food dish so she couldn't eat anymore and I added Nutri-Drench to their water. Does that seem to be a good idea or should I just be offering plain water?

I plan to check her at first light tomorrow (5:00am) and see if its gone down on its own. If not, should I take her to a Vet? I am so worried! I dont want to lose another chick!!! Any help you can offer would be super appreciated!

You should probably take her to a vet if not.
Give her water and massage her crop.
Hope everything turns out well!
Xxxx -buffy

 

[EricaCAL]

Maybe this will help:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...d-sour-crops-prevention-and-treatments.67194/

Hi thank you for that but I read that article and its just for older hens. Biggest issue I have is this is a 16 day old chick so I cannot do any thing that might hurt her inadvertently. I am so worried about her!!! Thank you! I do appreciate your response!!

If anyone is still out there and has advice it would sure be awesome to help me sleep tonight!!!

 

[EricaCAL]

You should probably take her to a vet if not.
Give her water and massage her crop.
Hope everything turns out well!
Xxxx -buffy

Hi there!!! Thank you so much!! Yes, i am leaning towards taking her to the vet tomorrow. She is just so tiny and fragile. I seriously do not know how this little ones survive on those awful factory farms where they are not monitored every 5 mins and not treated with love and care.

I have taken out their food bowl and added Nutri-Drench to the water. I am praying this clears by morning. THANKS!!!

 

[DuckPro]

Hi there!!! Thank you so much!! Yes, i am leaning towards taking her to the vet tomorrow. She is just so tiny and fragile. I seriously do not know how this little ones survive on those awful factory farms where they are not monitored every 5 mins and not treated with love and care.

I have taken out their food bowl and added Nutri-Drench to the water. I am praying this clears by morning. THANKS!!!

I'm praying too! Maybe massaging it with olive oil will help too. Please keep me updated about her later. I'm really worried about her!!

 

[EricaCAL]

I'm praying too! Maybe massaging it with olive oil will help too. Please keep me updated about her later. I'm really worried about her!!

Oh thank you so much for that lovely comment!!! It really warms my heart that you are thinking about my little one. <3 I will absolutely update this thread in the morning with her stats. And I will try the olive oil massage then too (I put them to bed a little early tonight so she could have extra "crop dumping" time as she sleeps!

Thank you so, so much. It means a lot to me, I just love my babies!

 

[DuckPro]

Oh thank you so much for that lovely comment!!! It really warms my heart that you are thinking about my little one. <3 I will absolutely update this thread in the morning with her stats. And I will try the olive oil massage then too (I put them to bed a little early tonight so she could have extra "crop dumping" time as she sleeps!

Thank you so, so much. It means a lot to me, I just love my babies!

Hope it turns out well! Even if I can't see the chicks, they still mean the world to me! <3 xxxx -Buffy

 

[junebuggena]

Full crops can scare first timers. Those little chicks can manage to cram a surprising volume of feed into those crops in the evening. Every summer, this site is full of 'OMG! My chick has a tumor' threads.
99.9% of the time, it's just a piggy little chick. I've been hatching and raising for a few years now, and out of hundreds of chicks, not a single one has ever had an impacted crop. It's not possible for chick starter to impact a crop. It dissolves and turns to mush when it gets wet. And day old chicks with a broody hen swallow little rocks (ROCKS!!) right away for grit. They are much tougher than you seem to think they are.
Don't panic yet. If the crop is still enlarged in the morning, by all means take her to the vet. But don't get yourself all worked up over something that is most likely nothing. She's not in any immediate distress.

 

[DuckPro]

Hello! Is your little chick alright? Xxxx -Buffy

Thinking about her