LateBirdFarms
Crowing
I've got a problem with a chick just shy of 2 weeks that's broody raised. I've dealt with sour crop and crop impaction with hens, but this is new to me. Yesterday evening I noticed she wasn't keeping up with the others and her crop is huge, squishy, half filled water balloon sort of thing, and while her back end wasn't entirely crusted over, but she had a good deal of white leakage dried where it dribbled down her backside. None of the usual sour crop smell. Cleaned her up, kept her separated to see if that crop would empty, no such luck. No droppings out of her except for the white leakage, vent looks fine, no pulsating, no visible injury or deformity. Saturday she was fine, Sunday morning she was still keeping up with her siblings, now she's visibly weak but still has spunk. I waited to see if it would resolve over night, she's a tiny bantam chick, so I'm a little worried I would have done more harm that good with any of the usual go to remedies for an older bird, but now I'm hoping for some advice.... What do you do for a chick this size?