Can someone give me some advice on sour crop?

[robin416]

First, quit with the forcing them to vomit. That is no longer approved of.

Second, you all are mixing up treating sour crop and impacted crop. They are two distinctly different problems caused by two different things. Both can stink, sour crop due to the infection and impacted due to the souring food trapped in the crop.

Put the hen somewhere you can closely monitor. Remove her food and water over night and before giving it back to her in the morning check to see if her crop is nearly empty or completely empty. If it is then chances are it is sour crop. If it isn't then it is impacted crop.

For sour crop they can be treated with Sulmet, follow bottle instructions for dosage. Or Nystatin which is only available from a vet.

 

[PAchickenlover]

jkzimm04, how is your progress? Nothing is going through my chickens crop yet of course but I am hopeing that the grit will help break it up.
Mollie

 

[jkzimm04]

My chicken is not good. Nothing is working...praying for a miracle. She wants to eat...she acts semi fine but her crop is gigantic!!I don't think I should give her anything, she will burst if some of this crap doesn't come out. I could cry

 

[PAchickenlover]

ok my chickens crop does not feel like it is completely filled with liquid. it is squishy but it kind of feels like one of those tension balls... if you know what I mean.

 

[PAchickenlover]

Oh I'm so sorry

.... Could you get her to a vet in the morning? May be they can help her.

 

[jkzimm04]

and the reason i put oil in it's crop was because I thought possibly something is lodged in there and it's not able to move out on it's own...

 

[jkzimm04]

Mine is liquid. I don't even know of a vet in my area that would tend to a chicken...I'm sure it would be a beast of a bill as well...

 

[PAchickenlover]

I wonder if you could put a large guage syringe into her crop to help drain it out.. You know, keep the plunger out of the syringe. Just a thought. I have no idea if it would work.

 

[jkzimm04]

They have tubes that you can get, I will make some phone calls and see if I can get my hands on one, that is if she makes it till the morning.

 

[jkzimm04]

PAchickenlover thanks for your support. I just feel so helpless!! I hope that the grit works for your chicken!!!! Sounds like you may be catching yours in time. I only noticed my girl this afternoon. I was a bit upset, my hubby noticed it last night but didn't say anything to me about it. So, if she makes it to the AM I think I will be lucky...her crop is that full that it literally doesn't feel like it can fit another drop! It's hideous!