Chicken Pooped out weird object

[chirpingstad]

I bet it's been beastly hot there, right? Salpingitis aside, the limp and lethagic behavior can be due to heat stress. The crop issue may also have slowed down due to heat stress.

If this were my hen, this is what I would do. First, mix one teaspoon sugar into one cup water. Squirt some Poultry Nutri-drench into it if you have it. Syringe it into the hen like this to avoid aspiration of the fluid. View attachment 3578963The Esophagus is on the chicken's right side of the throat. That's where to syringe will go. Try to get a fourth of the cup into her, then syringe more in an hour, repeating that until the entire cup of fluid is in her.

Next, I would treat the salpingitis with an antibiotic, whatever you have on hand or buy amoxycillin here. https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=E68FC9E3-30C2-402A-88C4-567BDED2C139 You can also order Nutri-drench from them at a good price. They ship quickly and efficiently. Give 250mg per day for ten days. It may work. It may not. I feel it's almost always worth a try.

I read that miconazole cream helps cure sour crop, along with the sugar/water mixture should i give her the 2mg of the cream?

 

[chirpingstad]

What have been all of your symptoms of sour crop? Does her breathe smell sour or bad? Is her crop full and puffy even in the morning after not eating or drinking during the night? Crops can slow down from the increased pressure in the belly from reproductive infections. Azygous is good at crop problems. Hopefully her leg problem is related to her lash egg because pressure on the sciatic nerve can cause lameness. If you do lose her or decide to put her down, it can be helpful to have your state vet lab perform a necropsy on the body if it is kept cold, not frozen.

She spit up cloudy green liquid earlier that smelled sour, and her crop felt like a water balloon around 9am when I checked on her this morning

 

[azygous]

It's seemingly working at cross purposes to tell you to treat for heat stress with sugar water which can aggravate the yeasty crop, but when there's a possibility of a life threatening condition being one of her issues, it takes precedence. My view is it can't make the sour crop any worse, and if she has heat stress, it could kill her faster than the yeast infection.

This evening, you can start with the first dose of miconazole, making it a double dose to get her started fighting the yeast.

Be aware that an antibiotic can also work at cross purposes to fighting the yeasty crop. It may be a bit tricky. One method of treating a yeasty crop is with acidified copper sulfate as an alternative to miconazole.

 

[chirpingstad]

It's seemingly working at cross purposes to tell you to treat for heat stress with sugar water which can aggravate the yeasty crop, but when there's a possibility of a life threatening condition being one of her issues, it takes precedence. My view is it can't make the sour crop any worse, and if she has heat stress, it could kill her faster than the yeast infection.

This evening, you can start with the first dose of miconazole, making it a double dose to get her started fighting the yeast.

Be aware that an antibiotic can also work at cross purposes to fighting the yeasty crop. It may be a bit tricky. One method of treating a yeasty crop is with acidified copper sulfate as an alternative to miconazole.

so after the heat stress, do you recommend fighting the salpingitis with amoxicillin first or the miconazole to treat the sour crop?

 

[azygous]

Start treating the sour crop tonight. Tomorrow night, start the amoxycillin if you have it on hand. It will just make the sour crop treatment go more slowly. We can adjust things in a few days if we see this order of treatment isn't working out.

 

[chirpingstad]

Start treating the sour crop tonight. Tomorrow night, start the amoxycillin if you have it on hand. It will just make the sour crop treatment go more slowly. We can adjust things in a few days if we see this order of treatment isn't working out.

should I do every other day treating one or the other? or start treating both at the same time?

 

[azygous]

Start tonight on the miconazole. Do it twice a day and be sure the dose is enough to fill her mouth. I just squirt the cream into the mouth like toothpaste. Tomorrow evening start the amoxicillin. From then on you will be giving both amoxycillin and miconazole every day.

 

[chirpingstad]

update: after keeping her off food for about a day and without water overnight her crop still felt a little squishy but it was very flat and i couldn’t feel any hard spots or an impaction so i decided to give her half a hard boiled egg mixed with warm water and 2 or so tablespoons of layer crumble, and she gobbled it up. her poo is very runny, clear with white, and green spots. i gave her a crop massage after eating. she is definitely still off but she’s preening herself a lot which she wasn’t doing before

 

[Tookie]

update: after keeping her off food for about a day and without water overnight her crop still felt a little squishy but it was very flat and i couldn’t feel any hard spots or an impaction so i decided to give her half a hard boiled egg mixed with warm water and 2 or so tablespoons of layer crumble, and she gobbled it up. her poo is very runny, clear with white, and green spots. i gave her a crop massage after eating. she is definitely still off but she’s preening herself a lot which she wasn’t doing before

Sounds like she's improving! Keep up the good work!

 

[LaFleche]

Glad she is doing better and my I suggest to take off the pinless peepers as she is separated from the flock?