Chicken that had sour crop not eating

[Wyorp Rock]

The spitting up is always worrisome, at least for me. I worry they will aspirate.
If you hold a cup up to her beak will she willingly drink?
I've found that separate birds for some reason really like chick water stations - not sure why, but mine do.

 

[Kmcschoolee]

The spitting up is always worrisome, at least for me. I worry they will aspirate.
If you hold a cup up to her beak will she willingly drink?
I've found that separate birds for some reason really like chick water stations - not sure why, but mine do.

I've tried but she wouldn't.

 

[azygous]

Her gizzard can't be that impacted if she pooped that very respectable poop.

She absolutely must have fluids. If you are having trouble with just the syringe, I find tubing much easier. It's not any more difficult than syringing except you insert a tube down the esophagus into the crop, then syringe the fluids into the tube. No liquid can get into the airway that way.

The beauty of tubing is that you can administer fluids, liquid food, and medicine effortlessly and nothing gets all over the chicken and you. You don't have to rely on the chicken to get all she should be consuming. It removes all the guess work.

You can use aquarium tubing or oxygen tubing. I use the latter since I have many elderly pals who use oxygen. You can also buy a kit from most vets for just a few dollars. I got one for $3 from my vet, and it includes a large syringe and the tubing (catheter).

 

[Kmcschoolee]

Her gizzard can't be that impacted if she pooped that very respectable poop.

She absolutely must have fluids. If you are having trouble with just the syringe, I find tubing much easier. It's not any more difficult than syringing except you insert a tube down the esophagus into the crop, then syringe the fluids into the tube. No liquid can get into the airway that way.

The beauty of tubing is that you can administer fluids, liquid food, and medicine effortlessly and nothing gets all over the chicken and you. You don't have to rely on the chicken to get all she should be consuming. It removes all the guess work.

You can use aquarium tubing or oxygen tubing. I use the latter since I have many elderly pals who use oxygen. You can also buy a kit from most vets for just a few dollars. I got one for $3 from my vet, and it includes a large syringe and the tubing (catheter).

 

[Kmcschoolee]

I'm afraid of being it on the wrong place

 

[azygous]

If you accidentally start to insert the tube into the airway, your patient will start to cough, a harmless reflex action to a foreign object in the airway. So you stop and start over, threading the tube along the right side if the throat, gliding under the tongue and that steers the tube right down the esophagus.

Your patient will not gag or choke as the tube goes into the crop. If she does, the tube is in the airway. This is painless, and I pretty much believe they enjoy the sensation of food or liquid filling their crop.

Tube feeding can be learned by anyone in just one try. It's easy, and you get better each time you do it.

 

[Kmcschoolee]

If you accidentally start to insert the tube into the airway, your patient will start to cough, a harmless reflex action to a foreign object in the airway. So you stop and start over, threading the tube along the right side if the throat, gliding under the tongue and that steers the tube right down the esophagus.

Your patient will not gag or choke as the tube goes into the crop. If she does, the tube is in the airway. This is painless, and I pretty much believe they enjoy the sensation of food or liquid filling their crop.

Tube feeding can be learned by anyone in just one try. It's easy, and you get better each time you do it.

Ok. I will try to get some tubing. I am encouraged by the poop since it's been several days since she has pooped. She still droopy but I'm going the poop is a good sign. Thank you so much. I will keep checking in and probably find out the next steps

 

[Kmcschoolee]

Ok. I will try to get some tubing. I am encouraged by the poop since it's been several days since she has pooped. She still droopy but I'm going the poop is a good sign. Thank you so much. I will keep checking in and probably find out the next steps

I also gave her some more tums this am. Do I need to give her some more tonight. And would it be of any benefit to mix electrolyte solution to try to give her.

 

[azygous]

Continue with one tums per day for a couple more days just in case there is an egg involved in this issue. It will cause no harm, and it will help dislodge a stuck egg if this is what's behind this hen not feeling well.

 

[Kmcschoolee]

She still isn't eating but did show a little interest in the food. Just wouldn't eat it. I put her in an isolation cage outside to be in the sun and outside because she seemed a lot more alert and she drank a ton of water on her own!! Hopefully she's doing even better tomorrow