A MIRACLE TREATMENT FOR SOUR CROP ????!!!

[kelleowen]

She is eating a little today and drinking a little water on her own. And she seems more alert today. I am going to try the cabbage and someone gave me a couple more ideas. Thanks for all your help. I am new to all this. We had chicken's when I was young girl. Just trying to keep them healthy...

 

[kelleowen]

She is much better eating and drinking on her on. Not sleeping all the time. Thanks for your help.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She is much better eating and drinking on her on. Not sleeping all the time. Thanks for your help.

I'm glad to hear she is improving. Thank you for the update

 

[TinaPena]

Hi! I'm new to Backyard Chickens...my friend has been forwarding me info from y'all! I am treating a bantam silkie hen for sour crop. However, after about a week, she's still having problems. She's better-but not out of the woods. I've used 1 tblsp baking powder to gallon of water, yogurt, and scrambled her eggs in olive oil. I massage her crop and vomit her about 3 times a day. Problem here is that it is making her sore ( I think) because she's pulling her feathers out. Her poops are good- she's clucking and wanting out with her friends. She's very skinny because I didn't know what was wrong with her. I grew up on a farm and do not remember ever dealing with sour crop before. Tomorrow I am bringing her to a vet specializing in birds/fowl. I just don't want to lose her and I can get some definitive info to share as well. I will keep y'all posted. Baby Blue on her way to getting better!

Hello yogurt is not the same as kefir , yogurt they sell in the shop is already dead and it's not a continuous culture. Kefir is a continuous culture you can keep a continuous batch (as in next generation of culture). In short yogurt from the shop will not work (after the third generation you have to go back to the shop and buy it again if your using it as a starter as they have deliberately killed something out of it too prevent you making your own ). Kefir (I believe would work with your chicken) as it's alive and the culture multiplies too prove that it's alive. But yogurt (I believe) will not work. Best of luck

 

[RoyalChick]

I just stumbled on this thread - and while I still think of myself as a newish chicken guardian, I do know about kefir.
Kefir is a complex live culture and is likely a stronger culture than whatever yeast species creates sour crop - so I am not surprised that kefir helps sour crop.
You can buy ready made kefir in stores - I assume it is a live culture but I have never tried store bought.
I make my own - you can buy kefir grains on Amazon, on Craig's list and from a host of kefir-focused communities. The grains grow and multiply as you feed them so people who make kefir are usually very happy to give grains away for free.
You just plop the grains in fresh milk and they get to work creating a yoghurt-like substance (leave it too long and it creates a cream cheese-like substance).
Kefir is naturally lactose free (or very low in lactose) because the grains consume the lactose and break it down.
I share my kefir with my chickens. They love it. Sometimes I freeze it with some veggie scraps inside and give it to them on hot days like an ice-cream sundae.
I usually make berry smoothies with mine but I like it plain too.

 

[FlockVillemaire]

Thank you!! Yes, I started taking it, too!! There must be something to it if it worked that fast!! Within days, she was bathing and scratching. Amazing!

I gave her a liquid-type diet for a week because I thought it could have been an impacted crop, and I wanted to flush the stuff out.

Apparently it was just a sour crop because the probiotics took care of everything. I don't know if yogurt would have the same impact since the kefir has a lot more probiotics in it. All I know is I will be giving them kefir instead of their yogurt treat from now on!

Hopefully this will save someone else's baby!

Kefir is far more effective than yogurt since those amazing "grains" are powerful packs of symbiotic bacteria and yeasts. I would think fighting Candida yeast infections would need these beneficial yeasts (more than the beneficial lactobacilli bacteria) to knock it back down.

So, for my day old Olive Egger with the massive hard crop, should I feed her some of my kefir grains? I already gave her both kefir whey fermented chick feed and some hard-boiled egg with cornmeal & a spoonful of whole kefir along with chick grit.

And/or should I give her chilled coconut oil? Should I consider fooling around with Epsom salts?

Or, should I wait till morning to see if it clears? She is so tiny, I would like to prevent any chance of issues.

 

[Kiki]

Kefir is far more effective than yogurt since those amazing "grains" are powerful packs of symbiotic bacteria and yeasts. I would think fighting Candida yeast infections would need these beneficial yeasts (more than the beneficial lactobacilli bacteria) to knock it back down.

So, for my day old Olive Egger with the massive hard crop, should I feed her some of my kefir grains? I already gave her both kefir whey fermented chick feed and some hard-boiled egg with cornmeal & a spoonful of whole kefir along with chick grit.

And/or should I give her chilled coconut oil? Should I consider fooling around with Epsom salts?

Or, should I wait till morning to see if it clears? She is so tiny, I would like to prevent any chance of issues.

Stop feeding these 'extra' things and ONLY feed a day old chick chick crumble feed.

Don't do anything more until morning time... See if the crop empties on its own first.
Take everything else away except the chicken commercially made crumble feed.

 

[FlockVillemaire]

I just stumbled on this thread - and while I still think of myself as a newish chicken guardian, I do know about kefir.
Kefir is a complex live culture and is likely a stronger culture than whatever yeast species creates sour crop - so I am not surprised that kefir helps sour crop.
You can buy ready made kefir in stores - I assume it is a live culture but I have never tried store bought.
I make my own - you can buy kefir grains on Amazon, on Craig's list and from a host of kefir-focused communities. The grains grow and multiply as you feed them so people who make kefir are usually very happy to give grains away for free.
You just plop the grains in fresh milk and they get to work creating a yoghurt-like substance (leave it too long and it creates a cream cheese-like substance).
Kefir is naturally lactose free (or very low in lactose) because the grains consume the lactose and break it down.
I share my kefir with my chickens. They love it. Sometimes I freeze it with some veggie scraps inside and give it to them on hot days like an ice-cream sundae.
I usually make berry smoothies with mine but I like it plain too.

Store bought kefir is almost never produced with kefir grains. But it is definitely "live". I first healed my kitten's nasty gingivitis with it, before getting so addicted I had to get grains to regularly afford it for myself!

Favorite Recipe:
Mango Kefir Lassi

kefir
chia
cardamom
stevia
mango

Blend together and enjoy

 

[FlockVillemaire]

Stop feeding these 'extra' things and ONLY feed a day old chick chick crumble feed.

Don't do anything more until morning time... See if the crop empties on its own first.
Take everything else away except the chicken commercially made crumble feed.

Thanks! This is my first flock and I only know what I've read. Not ready for health problems.

 

[Kiki]

Thanks! This is my first flock and I only know what I've read. Not ready for health problems.

I highly recommend not feeding anything but the crumble to the chicks. I can't stress this enough.