Advice quick please! Labored respirations.

[cosmicmama]

Yesterday I posted how I thought my hen had sour crop. After making my "diagnosis", I made her vomit and tried to give her some yogurt and water by syringe, but only got a few drops in her. I gave her a dose of Monistat yesterday afternoon and was about to go give her the next. ( I kept her in a dog crate in the house last night). This morning she was standing in the crate looking the same, but her respirations are loud and rattling. I'm afraid to try and force anything into her at this point. I'm worried that I did this to her by making her puke yesterday. Her crop is only ping pong sized and soft, now I'm not so sure about the first diagnosis. What should I do? Should I keep trying, or let her go back outside and die in peace?

 

[cosmicmama]

Really, no one has any advice for me? I have put my girl back outside, thinking she will be happier in her backyard where she has lived her entire life, rather than shut up in a strange crate inside, if she is going to die. She is just standing near the fence at the back of the yard.

 

[Feathers n Fur]

I wish I had some advice for you but I just don't have any to give. I am dealing with impacted crop myself and feel surgery is inevitable or else she'll die. Hers is the size of a tennis ball. My thoughts are with you and your feathered one.

 

[pwand]

She is most likely dieing. Sour crop will kill them, she was probably far gone before you treated her. I would bring her back in and make her comfortable. Put her in a box with a blanket to keep her warm and comfortable.

 

[cosmicmama]

This thread is nearly a year old, but I thought I would update it to say that Monistat cured Comet and she went back to normal after just a few days.