Chicken With Sour Crop

[Shezadandy]

This sounds like a great plan. I will start doing this today. Thank you so much for the information and your help! I hope your hen stays well!

Fingers cross your girl improves! The best first sign of success is the first time you do a crop check and the contents are kind of 'shrink wrapped' by the crop meaning the muscles have contracted and are starting to work again. Sometimes a crop issue is the first symptom of another disease process happening, but not always.

Our chronic crop offender used to stuff herself with feathers, straw, oyster shell that required surgery to undo despite all efforts to avoid it. Now, the humorous part is as we were pulling things out of her crop through the incision... she was trying her hardest to grab what we pulled out ... and swallow it again.

Here's my favorite article on everything crop related, sorry if it's a duplicate.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...d-sour-crops-prevention-and-treatments.67194/

 

[LittleBantam15]

Ok good to know. Haha I had a cockerel do a similar thing once - I pulled out a weed that he was choking on and then he tried to eat it again!

Have you ever tried using miconazole to treat your bird? Do you think it might help to try it?

 

[Shezadandy]

Ok good to know. Haha I had a cockerel do a similar thing once - I pulled out a weed that he was choking on and then he tried to eat it again!

Have you ever tried using miconazole to treat your bird? Do you think it might help to try it?

LOL it must have been a very tasty weed!!

My understanding of using the miconazole is if your bird has a yeast infection brewing in her crop. If there's no evidence of yeast, I wouldn't use it, especially while you've got the antifungal and antibiotic treatments going.

When the treatments are done you may consider using a probiotic (just mix it into some moist crumbles) to help her build up the good digestive bacteria again. Sav-a-Chick probiotics is a common one, I happened to have Probios on hand for the goats, so I use that instead because it's basically the same stuff.

 

[LittleBantam15]

LOL it must have been a very tasty weed!!

My understanding of using the miconazole is if your bird has a yeast infection brewing in her crop. If there's no evidence of yeast, I wouldn't use it, especially while you've got the antifungal and antibiotic treatments going.

When the treatments are done you may consider using a probiotic (just mix it into some moist crumbles) to help her build up the good digestive bacteria again. Sav-a-Chick probiotics is a common one, I happened to have Probios on hand for the goats, so I use that instead because it's basically the same stuff.

Ok. We just got a probiotic yesterday and her treatments finished today so I've just started her on that. Thanks again!