Chickens crop is literally rotting off

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Do you have pictures? Is the entire crop rotting off or just a large section of it?

 

[AngelicaRoss]

Do you have pictures? Is the entire crop rotting off or just a large section of it?

I don't have pictures. I will try in the morning but it's hard to look at when she keeps trying to mess with it and eat out of it when I take her crop bra off. From what I've seen the open part is just the top half but it looks like the whole thing is gray. The gray skin forms a perfect circle. The circle is close to 3" in diameter.

 

[Bryce Thomas]

I have lost 3 chickens already this year. One was from old age. I have tried so hard to save all of them. I don't plan on getting more chickens. It's totally turned me off from eating chicken and eggs.

I am so sorry. I know chickens die easily from illness and old age comes to all, my secret anxiety is walking into the coop and finding 1 or all 3 of my big silkies dead. They are little cotton balls and I love them with all my heart, it really breaks my heart knowing they will die of old age someday

And dont ever say you should have never gotten chickens. After owning chickens and breeding them and then raising chicks for 2 months now I can tell everybody that they need chickens for both pets and eggs and maybe even meat

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Do you know what caused the tissue death? Could it have been a burn or something caustic she got into?

 

[AngelicaRoss]

I am so sorry. I know chickens die easily from illness and old age comes to all, my secret anxiety is walking into the coop and finding 1 or all 3 of my big silkies dead. They are little cotton balls and I love them with all my heart, it really breaks my heart knowing they will die of old age someday

And dont ever say you should have never gotten chickens. After owning chickens and breeding them and then raising chicks for 2 months now I can tell everybody that they need chickens for both pets and eggs and maybe even meat

I have lost 9 chickens in 4 years. From my experience I can tell everybody how much chickens suffer to lay eggs. How feed store chicks are over bred and unhealthy. And chickens hybridized to lay a lot of eggs are unhealthy. I have loved them like a cat or dog. They are no longer something I consider food. I have loved every minute of having them but I don't think they've been worth the emotional torture for me.

 

[AngelicaRoss]

Do you know what caused the tissue death? Could it have been a burn or something caustic she got into?

No but she has had severe pendulous crop for 3 years. She regularly deals with sour crop. Sometimes very severe sour crop. She had been deathly ill and I think that was the start of this. She primarily lives in a cage in the house. She goes out with the others free ranging if she feels good but not for long. Before she was very sick she had been spending days out with the others. But they're locked up in a pen unless I'm with them.

 

[AngelicaRoss]

I couldn't get a very good picture with her trying to get away from me and picking at it. It feels heavy like it's more than just skin coming off. Still a lot of food in there that I don't know how to get out. I fed her wet cat food this morning as she's very hungry.

 

[AngelicaRoss]

So... she's back home! The local vet gave her antibiotics and metacam. She was amazed at her attitude. She has a lot of dead tissue. A large part of her crop is gone. She still seems to have mobility in it though and quite a bit of healthy tissue around it. The vet cleaned it all out and she was trying to eat the contents as fast as she got them out.
So for now she's comfortable. I will call an avian vet a few towns over tomorrow and see about surgery.

 

[thehenandchick01234]

I hope she gets better

 

[AngelicaRoss]

I hope she gets better

Thank you. I'm happy to have a glimmer of hope. Just checked her and she's peacefully sleeping with her head under her wing.