Advice for Hen with Sour Crop???

[Chick3nLover]

Hey Everyone! I believe my 3.5 year old Easter Egger has sour crop. I notice her being lethargic yesterday and pooping yellow wet diarrhea. I initially started with sovereign silver and an epsom salt bath thinking it was something to do with her abdomen or vent, (she had similar symptoms about a month ago except then her abdomen was swollen.) I treated those and she seemed to be doing good until yesterday.

Today she didn’t want to eat with the flock and wouldn’t even eat a special meal of plain Greek yogurt, scrambled eggs, tiny bit of apple sauce, and a couple dried bugs on top.

I then syringe fed her a tiny bit of Greek yogurt and gave her another dose of Sovereign Silver. After doing some research I’m led to believe this is sour crop. Her crop didn’t empty over night form yesterday into today and was on the smaller side of full, but still full and squishy for that matter. Like a small water balloon.

After reading how to treat sour crop I have withheld food and water from her and isolated her to our smaller coop. QUESTION THOUGH: can I give her fresh PLAIN water? It’s not extremely hot today but it is still 90. She is in the shade and I have a small fan blowing on her, but she is panting more than my other hens and I want to make sure she stays hydrated. I still have like 18 hours left though until it is suggested to reintroduce water….

 

[Debbie292d]

Hey Everyone! I believe my 3.5 year old Easter Egger has sour crop. I notice her being lethargic yesterday and pooping yellow wet diarrhea. I initially started with sovereign silver and an epsom salt bath thinking it was something to do with her abdomen or vent, (she had similar symptoms about a month ago except then her abdomen was swollen.) I treated those and she seemed to be doing good until yesterday.

Today she didn’t want to eat with the flock and wouldn’t even eat a special meal of plain Greek yogurt, scrambled eggs, tiny bit of apple sauce, and a couple dried bugs on top.

I then syringe fed her a tiny bit of Greek yogurt and gave her another dose of Sovereign Silver. After doing some research I’m led to believe this is sour crop. Her crop didn’t empty over night form yesterday into today and was on the smaller side of full, but still full and squishy for that matter. Like a small water balloon.

After reading how to treat sour crop I have withheld food and water from her and isolated her to our smaller coop. QUESTION THOUGH: can I give her fresh PLAIN water? It’s not extremely hot today but it is still 90. She is in the shade and I have a small fan blowing on her, but she is panting more than my other hens and I want to make sure she stays hydrated. I still have like 18 hours left though until it is suggested to reintroduce water….

I would let her have a couple of sips at least. In this heat, without any fluids going in her, she could become dehydrated.

Here are two of the best crop articles on BYC:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ntion-and-treatments-of-crop-disorders.67194/

And another post by the same author as that last article.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/howdy-byc.1628559/post-27813675

 

[Chick3nLover]

I would let her have a couple of sips at least. In this heat, without any fluids going in her, she could become dehydrated.

Here are two of the best crop articles on BYC:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ntion-and-treatments-of-crop-disorders.67194/

And another post by the same author as that last article.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/howdy-byc.1628559/post-27813675

This is very helpful thank you! I did end up providing her with plain water for the first couple hours and then gave her garlic infused water for the remainder of the day. She took about 10 sips in my sight over the course of 8ish hours.

 

[Chick3nLover]

This is very helpful thank you! I did end up providing her with plain water for the first couple hours and then gave her garlic infused water for the remainder of the day. She took about 10 sips in my sight over the course of 8ish hours.

I also massaged her crop every 3-4hours since 1pm-7pm.

 

[Chick3nLover]

Update:
So last her night her crop felt slightly smaller and this morning it had reduced drastically and had only a little left in it, I’d say 80% cleared. Even her poops had more sustenance to them showing that things were processing. I gave her diluted AcV this morning since her crop was about empty, I will be giving her probiotic apple sauce and some scrambled egg around 9am.also I ordered MoniStat7 cream and 1ml or 1cc syringes. I will most likely use this tomorrow morning if her crop is empty, because the syringes did not arrive yet.