Chicks with a strang lump on chest

[debid]

No, no need to remove the food. I've never heard of a chick getting crop bound from chick feed -- it turns to mush when it mixes with saliva. They can get bound if they eat wood shavings but removing the food wouldn't help that if it were the case. Most likely, they have good instincts are are tanking up because food is plentiful and just in case it gets scarce later.

 

[tamiep]

OMG! This just happened with my chicks! It is really shocking to see. It looks lopsided and huge on the smaller ones. I was thinking that they all got something and were going to die any day not, because they didn't have it yesterday and the lumps were bigger this afternoon than yesterday.

Somebody needs to warn us new-bees about this kind of thing so we don't flip out when we see it.

I've noticed that they chicks are eating a lot all of a sudden. Most of mine are probably 6-8 weeks old. I have one that might be older. Rural King could not tell me exactly how old, which ****** me off. Anyway, their food consumption double almost overnight. When they run out of food or water, they knock over the containers in protest. ANGRY BIRDS! LOL

 

[pigglywink]

Hi all

So just reading this thread, I think one of my chicks (2 weeks) has a full crop (it was there last night and this morning), not necessarily from being a piggy and eating too much feed but I have wood shavings in their brooder and I suspect it has been chowing down on that.

I guess the solution would be to remove the wood shavings but what do I do with the chick, will the crop empty on its own so long as remove the shavings or how do you unbind a bound crop?

Any help will be great.

Thanks

 

[Jensownzoo]

Hi all

So just reading this thread, I think one of my chicks (2 weeks) has a full crop (it was there last night and this morning), not necessarily from being a piggy and eating too much feed but I have wood shavings in their brooder and I suspect it has been chowing down on that.

I guess the solution would be to remove the wood shavings but what do I do with the chick, will the crop empty on its own so long as remove the shavings or how do you unbind a bound crop?

Any help will be great.e

Thanks

It depends on what size shavings it was able to get into the crop? If they are small pieces, then they may pass--you can offer chick grit to help the gizzard grind them up.

If the chick was able to wedge larger pieces, or if the pieces have gotten tangled up with each other then they won't be able to pass through the esophagus to the stomach. Two ways they can possibly come out then. You can try to "milk" them out through the mouth, holding the bird upside down as you do. This carries with it the risk that the chick will inhale some crop contents, which will likely kill it. The second way is a surgical removal through the skin and crop wall--something I do not recommend anyone other than a vet do.

 

[Lushlylex]

It depends on what size shavings it was able to get into the crop? If they are small pieces, then they may pass--you can offer chick grit to help the gizzard grind them up.

If the chick was able to wedge larger pieces, or if the pieces have gotten tangled up with each other then they won't be able to pass through the esophagus to the stomach. Two ways they can possibly come out then. You can try to "milk" them out through the mouth, holding the bird upside down as you do. This carries with it the risk that the chick will inhale some crop contents, which will likely kill it. The second way is a surgical removal through the skin and crop wall--something I do not recommend anyone other than a vet do.

No, no need to remove the food. I've never heard of a chick getting crop bound from chick feed -- it turns to mush when it mixes with saliva. They can get bound if they eat wood shavings but removing the food wouldn't help that if it were the case. Most likely, they have good instincts are are tanking up because food is plentiful and just in case it gets scarce later.

im having the same issue with two of my little chicks, except it doesn’t seem to go down. One of them is definitely eating all the time. I’ve woken up twice in the night to monitor them, and the one is always eating. Is it normal for the bulge to always be full at that age? She acts perfectly fine.