Chikita refusing food

[Mahdiyeh]

Fox attacked my chickens a month ago and took 5 of them, 2 survived. Chikita was depressed but doing well, eating and laying eggs sometimes until the fox attacked them again after 2 weeks, couldn’t touch the girls but Chikita went to shock, was eating and moving very little until almost stopped eating after 2 weeks, then I noticed she has sour crop (yesterday morning) and impacted crop. I followed the recommendations on the old posts and her crop was almost flat last night and today morning was flat but she refuses eating and drinking. So she has been syringe fed today but she looks even worse than before starting the tx.
I’m giving her a little of the following
Greek yogurt, children multivitamins, vinegar water, yolk.
Just gave her a meal of egg-white and oatmeal.

she poops as well, green and runny.

What can I do to help her eat by herself ?

 

[Mahdiyeh]

this is her poop

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Fox attacked my chickens a month ago and took 5 of them, 2 survived. Chikita was depressed but doing well, eating and laying eggs sometimes until the fox attacked them again after 2 weeks, couldn’t touch the girls but Chikita went to shock, was eating and moving very little until almost stopped eating after 2 weeks, then I noticed she has sour crop (yesterday morning) and impacted crop. I followed the recommendations on the old posts and her crop was almost flat last night and today morning was flat but she refuses eating and drinking. So she has been syringe fed today but she looks even worse than before starting the tx.
I’m giving her a little of the following
Greek yogurt, children multivitamins, vinegar water, yolk.
Just gave her a meal of egg-white and oatmeal.

she poops as well, green and runny.

What can I do to help her eat by herself ?

Do you have Chicken Feed? Layer feed, all flock feed or chick start would be good to give.

I'd cut out the oatmeal and vinegar. What are the children's vitamins?
Photos?

How did you treat Sour and Impacted crop? This resolved in 1 day?

If the crop is emptying overnight, then likely there's not any impaction. Possible for a crop to be sour even if emptying. But you should detect a foul odor that is sour or yeasty, it her breath smells fine, she likely does not have sour crop.

Work on her drinking well. Plain fresh water. Offer her poultry/chicken feed, this can be given wet or dry. A small treat of cooked egg or bits of canned fish like sardines or tuna can be enticing. Do make grit (crushed granite) available free choice.

 

[Mahdiyeh]

Do you have Chicken Feed? Layer feed, all flock feed or chick start would be good to give.

I'd cut out the oatmeal and vinegar. What are the children's vitamins?
Photos?

How did you treat Sour and Impacted crop? This resolved in 1 day?

If the crop is emptying overnight, then likely there's not any impaction. Possible for a crop to be sour even if emptying. But you should detect a foul odor that is sour or yeasty, it her breath smells fine, she likely does not have sour crop.

Work on her drinking well. Plain fresh water. Offer her poultry/chicken feed, this can be given wet or dry. A small treat of cooked egg or bits of canned fish like sardines or tuna can be enticing. Do make grit (crushed granite) available free choice.

 

[Mahdiyeh]

Thank you for your reply.
Yes I do have chicken food
She was throwing up very smelly liquid and her crop was squishy. But after I massaged the crop I could feel something big and rubbery. I syringed her coconut oil then stool softener and that thing started falling apart. She had an Epsom bath and the following morning I started feeding her as I mentioned before but still could fell the rubbery thing but much smaller. The bad odour from her mouth is much much less. Today she is eating but is picky doesn’t eat pallets and now roaming outside.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thank you for your reply.
Yes I do have chicken food
She was throwing up very smelly liquid and her crop was squishy. But after I massaged the crop I could feel something big and rubbery. I syringed her coconut oil then stool softener and that thing started falling apart. She had an Epsom bath and the following morning I started feeding her as I mentioned before but still could fell the rubbery thing but much smaller. The bad odour from her mouth is much much less. Today she is eating but is picky doesn’t eat pallets and now roaming outside.

Oh, ok so you do note a sour odor. If so, then treating with an anti-fungal/yeast medication would be a good idea. Miconazole, Clotrimazole or Nystatin are commonly used to treat sour crop. Do look inside the beak to make sure there's no lesions of canker.

 

[Mahdiyeh]

Oh, ok so you do note a sour odor. If so, then treating with an anti-fungal/yeast medication would be a good idea. Miconazole, Clotrimazole or Nystatin are commonly used to treat sour crop. Do look inside the beak to make sure there's no lesions of canker.

Thank you. I’m getting nystatin today.
I had to syringe feed her yesterday again as she doesn’t eat herself. She is a bit ok after giving her food and gets bad again soon. Her crop doesn’t get empty fully and I could feel the rubbery thing last night.
My other chicken went to bed with a full crop and in the morning its not fully emptied
Is she sick as well?!
I can’t separate them. They are traumatised enough. When I take the sick one away the other one gets stressed out.
Is sour crop contagious? Or if she’s got bacterial infections?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thank you. I’m getting nystatin today.
I had to syringe feed her yesterday again as she doesn’t eat herself. She is a bit ok after giving her food and gets bad again soon. Her crop doesn’t get empty fully and I could feel the rubbery thing last night.
My other chicken went to bed with a full crop and in the morning its not fully emptied
Is she sick as well?!
I can’t separate them. They are traumatised enough. When I take the sick one away the other one gets stressed out.
Is sour crop contagious? Or if she’s got bacterial infections?

Usually sour crop is not contagious unless they have been eating something that is causing a problem.

Make sure to provide grit (crushed granite) free choice for them.

Encourage them both to eat poultry feed, cut out the oatmeal, any scratch/seeds, etc. for now. Just feed and give some egg or sardines as a treat.

Take food/water up when they go to bed/lights out. Check their crop first thing in the morning before giving food/water, see what the crop feels like then.

 

[Mahdiyeh]

Usually sour crop is not contagious unless they have been eating something that is causing a problem.

Make sure to provide grit (crushed granite) free choice for them.

Encourage them both to eat poultry feed, cut out the oatmeal, any scratch/seeds, etc. for now. Just feed and give some egg or sardines as a treat.

Take food/water up when they go to bed/lights out. Check their crop first thing in the morning before giving food/water, see what the crop feels like then.

Thank you so much. I started nystatin. One of them is healthy with an empty crop in the morning and full at night. And the other one is getting worse. She doesn’t eat or drink at all. I feed her with eggs and yoghurt mixed with egg shell, but with the syringe. Her crop is squishy and empties very very slowly with massaging.
I got them grit long time ago and non of the girls had it and a neighbour told me about crushed egg shell which they liked it. Is it ok? Or it must be grit?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thank you so much. I started nystatin. One of them is healthy with an empty crop in the morning and full at night. And the other one is getting worse. She doesn’t eat or drink at all. I feed her with eggs and yoghurt mixed with egg shell, but with the syringe. Her crop is squishy and empties very very slowly with massaging.
I got them grit long time ago and non of the girls had it and a neighbour told me about crushed egg shell which they liked it. Is it ok? Or it must be grit?

Crushed egg shells will provide a source of Calcium, but they are not hard enough to perform as grit.