AngelicaRoss
Chirping
- Jun 7, 2017
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This sounds weird and I assure you I am not a troll.
My chicken's, who has had pendulous crop for 3.5 out of her 5 years of life, crop is rotting off.
She has been a mainly indoor bird for about 2.5 years. She often gets sour crop. I have to monitor how much she eats, give her monistat often and lots of probiotics.
About 2 weeks ago she became very sick. She refused to eat. Her crop was fuller than usual. She had sour crop and seemed like she also had an infection. I force fed her and gave her antibiotics for 10 days. She gradually got better. Her crop started functioning better and mostly emptying. She was super thin and has started putting on weight. She's moving around, making a lot of noise and back to herself. I did notice she smelled rotten and it wasn't her breath, it was her actual crop area. The skin just around her crop turned gray. She had some wounds around her crop. But, when her crop is very large her foot hits it when she walks and she sometimes scrapes her skin.
Today, she was outside rolling in the dirt. She came running up to me and I saw liquid coming from her crop. Looked, and her crop was open with food pouring out and.. she was eating it. Brought her inside in a panic and tried desperately to find some way to contain the thing while she kept trying to eat the food coming out. I put her crop bra on to hold everything in. I just changed the crop bra, trimmed some feathers up and looked at it. There is a perfect round circle of gray skin and her crop is literally falling off. Grasping at straws I thought maybe I could glue the hole but the skin is just dead around it. I put a clean crop bra on and she wants to me to let her outside. It hasn't even phased her! I don't know what to do. I know I should have her put to sleep but she doesn't seem to be in any pain. I don't want her to get sick again and suffer though.
Has anyone ever heard of this happening? From my extensive internet searches I'd say no. This is so awful because she has overcome so much.
My chicken's, who has had pendulous crop for 3.5 out of her 5 years of life, crop is rotting off.
She has been a mainly indoor bird for about 2.5 years. She often gets sour crop. I have to monitor how much she eats, give her monistat often and lots of probiotics.
About 2 weeks ago she became very sick. She refused to eat. Her crop was fuller than usual. She had sour crop and seemed like she also had an infection. I force fed her and gave her antibiotics for 10 days. She gradually got better. Her crop started functioning better and mostly emptying. She was super thin and has started putting on weight. She's moving around, making a lot of noise and back to herself. I did notice she smelled rotten and it wasn't her breath, it was her actual crop area. The skin just around her crop turned gray. She had some wounds around her crop. But, when her crop is very large her foot hits it when she walks and she sometimes scrapes her skin.
Today, she was outside rolling in the dirt. She came running up to me and I saw liquid coming from her crop. Looked, and her crop was open with food pouring out and.. she was eating it. Brought her inside in a panic and tried desperately to find some way to contain the thing while she kept trying to eat the food coming out. I put her crop bra on to hold everything in. I just changed the crop bra, trimmed some feathers up and looked at it. There is a perfect round circle of gray skin and her crop is literally falling off. Grasping at straws I thought maybe I could glue the hole but the skin is just dead around it. I put a clean crop bra on and she wants to me to let her outside. It hasn't even phased her! I don't know what to do. I know I should have her put to sleep but she doesn't seem to be in any pain. I don't want her to get sick again and suffer though.
Has anyone ever heard of this happening? From my extensive internet searches I'd say no. This is so awful because she has overcome so much.
