Chicken " Throwing Up"

[blackwpk]

One of my girls just 'squirted' from the back end and water from the front end. She is up on her perch and I was putting Vaseline on her comb (been getting very cold at night) and she did both.

 

[Chick-a-de]

It really isn't "throwing up", it is just water coming from the crop. This usually happens after the bird has had a drink of water and then bends over or had her crop squeezed. It is perfectly normal.

I know this post is old, but very helpful. My chicken was hurt by a dog and only 1 visible wound, very small. Anyways, she been eating and drinking but when I picked her up fluid came out of her beak. I gave her a physical as best as I could and she seemed ok with every gentle push an pull. She didn't flinch once. I think she'll be fine after the shock wears off. Poor baby, she's freakin tough! 90 lb mastiff, she's lucky to be alive.

 

[Julia Tjipee]

Sometimes I see my chickens throw up water........Why is that? And also today I picked up my hen and then she threw up.

Is been todays now am see my chicken is throwing up sort of selivs why

 

[Dvanhoy]

From personal experience, I would like to add that if you ever pick up your hens and a watery fluid pours from their mouth, there could actually be a problem with an impacted or sour crop. Whilst I have had hens regurgitate water very occasionally (normally in hot weather after they have scoffed a whole lot of water too fast), I always make a point of checking the smell of the water which was expelled as well as the smell of their beak area.

A sour crop occurs when a hen consumes a large quality of water in an attempt to 'unblock' an impacted crop (caused by eating longs grasses, pieces of string and the like which ball up, causing a blockage in the crop.) The result is that the crop fills with a 'sour' watery/grainy acid type solution, and there is a distinct smell which is easily detected if this should occur.

In that case, treatment would be required for your birds. Unfortunately I learned all about sour crop the hard way - I was too late to save my girl. But I just wanted to reiterate the importance of keeping an eye on things. Sometimes what can seem like nothing is actually a sign of something.

- Krista

Sounds like my two-month-old silky chick she’s a big pouch on the front where her crop is located it is all watery and she keeps throwing up I just noticed it yesterday what do you do to help correct this