Can someone give me some advice on sour crop?

[PAchickenlover]

She's in my thoughts. Let me know what happens. I will try to keep up but it gets buisy here during the day.

Good luck!
Mollie

 

[jkzimm04]

I will post at some point tomorrow. It gets busy here for me too! With all of my animals and my 2 and 4 year old kids...I don't know if I'm coming or going most days. Thanks again for your support, I really needed that now! I just feel horrible for her..praying for a miracle! Keep me posted on your chicky too!! I hope by morning her crop is empty and she is good as new! ~Kristin

 

[PAchickenlover]

Thanks... I'll let you know how Snowy is tomorro.

Mollie

 

[PAchickenlover]

Snowy made it through the night. Crop was down some. How is your gril today? I hope she made it through the night

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[PAchickenlover]

Well Snowy just got a full bath in my tub. I washed her with Dawn because I saw some lice on her she also has scaley leg mites so my intentions were to address those initially. But once I got her feet cleaned off I noticed that she had a dark spot on the bottom of her pinkish/yellow foot. Another thing that I did not want to deal with, Bumble foot ( our first encounter ). So I got it opened and got the stuff out of it, packed it with neosporine (with no pain killer) and then I wrapped it. So she has had a bath, Bumble foot taken care of, Petrolium jelly applied (where the wrap wasn't) and sour or impacted crop taken care of all within 12 hours. Wow what a work-up. My son is holding her now, she is still wrapped up in a towel, and she is loving the extra attention.
I hope your chicken is doing better. I am worried, you haven't responded yet. I sure hope she made it.

Mollie

 

[Lucysmom002]

I had a chicken with sour crop this spring. I gave apple cider vinegar for a couple weeks in the water. I gave some mineral oil to help it pass. I have grit to help grind up whatever was in there.
I did the oil thing a couple times a day and to make them eat it I mixed some with water OR I soaked some tiny pieces of bread in it, they love bread.

 

[chicklover16]

jkzimm04, I'm so sorry about your bird

have you thought about surgery? you can do it at home and it is a sure fire way of curing your bird.

 

[jkzimm04]

Well my girl is still kicking. She is eager to eat but I don't know that I should let her! I got a big syringe and stuck a tube on it and put it down her throat to her crop and tried to suction it out. NOTHING really came out. It boggles my mind because you can hear the stuff sloshing around in there when you massage her crop. I would say it went down a little bit from last night. I had her vomit some of the stuff out. I hold her with her head down for about 10 seconds and some of the nasty goop comes out but after 3 or so times of doing that nothing comes out. I put electrolytes in her water and gave her some plain yogurt and added some extra probiotics. She ate that fairly well. I did buy some apple cider vinegar. I wasn't sure if the electrolyte stuff was more important of if I should pitch that and put apple cider vinegar in her water. Another thing, I don't understand exactly how or why and it may seem silly, but she is pooping. Sometimes it's watery and others it's semi-normal. Is she getting any nutrition through the yogurt? Should I feed her? Give her grit? What's the best thing???

How exactly would I do the surgery? I went to my local feed mill and the person working there seems knowledgeable to a degree in regards to chickens. I don't know what you think of this..but it sounds scary to me and I really don't want to have to...but he gave me a needle syringe and said to basically puncture the crop and suction it out that way?! I can't imagine doing that for one and I don't see how it will help if I tried the tube down her throat and got next to nothing.

Any advice at this point would be great, I'm willing to try anything to save her. She's getting awfully skinny and I don't know if she will make it until tomorrow. If I don't try something, she will die...so if I try something and she dies, I feel that I gave it my best and did what I could for her!!

 

[jkzimm04]

Mollie, I'm glad that Snowy is doing better

 

[PAchickenlover]

Kristen,
I am so glad your hen made it.
Ok I found the post that I was looking for on crop surgery;
www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2724695
I have heard that it is not so bad once you know what you are doing. This post should help you out. It gives step by step directions. I will ask Dawg53 to take a look at this post and try to get him to help you also. He is very knowledgable and might have some other suggestions.
Mollie