Coccidiosis now sour/impacted crop???

[blondi3122]

Please help! My 7 week old Amaraucana chick was sufferung from coccidiosis (I'm pretty sure). I have been giving her Amprol in her water & powdered milk onher food for almost 2 days now. She hadn't been eating or drinking. She was all puffed up, head tucked in, tail down. Then the white pasty-like feces came. That's when I started her on Corid/Amprol liquid. She almost immediately started feeling better!!! But she ate so much (I mean a true glutton) that her crop is HUGE this morning! I feel horrible for letting her have chick start available to her all day, I fed her an egg yolk, she ate the whole thing! She has been drinking alot of water. I saw her poop last night & it was all water with tiny streaks of white??? She is starting to hunch again. She was singing this morning. I massaged her but now won't eat much at all. I'm in Maui, it's 8:07 am here right now. I want to save her, she is the sweetest thing! I keep trying to get her to eat mashed egg yolk with water & olive oil (because I'm afraid to choke her by using the syringe - I am so new to all of this). She would barely touch it. What do I do??? I can't afford to take her to the vet right now.

 

[CMV]

Your timeline is a little confusing. I am not sure where you are in treatment or if you are even still treating for cocci. Word of advice- do not feed high protein diet to a bird with cocci. It defeats the purpose and feeds the cocci. Another word of advice- chickens are lactose intolerant. Skip the milk products unless they are full of bugs (yogurt or buttermilk). Put the bird on a regular diet of just her own feed. Chick starter should not cause crop issues, and definitely not an impaction.

I think you are so concerned that you are throwing a bunch of different things at the problem without waiting to see if anything was effective or not. You need to pick a course of action and stick to it.

Sour crop would make her breath smell nasty. Take her food away tonight and check her crop in the morning. Take a sniff of her breath then, too. If she smells yucky then we can broach the crop issue then.

I hope this helps.

 

[blondi3122]

Yes, I am still treating for cocci. I read somewhere that sprinkling dried milk on her food will make the PH in her tummy unihabitable for the cocci. But I could be confused as I have been researching every kind of illness/disease with these symptoms. I started her on the Corid/Amprol liquid on Saturday 5pm, it is now Monday 3pm & they said 3 days so...one more day. Her crop is not hard, it is squishy, HUGE, & has some air bubbles I can feel when I massage it. No foul breath yet, but it has only been like this for not even an entire 24 hours yet so I wouldn't expect it to smell just yet. i saw her poop last night & it was like water. Clear with little streaks of white in it. Tiny little streaks. But it didn't completely soak into the paper so it had to be thicker than just water. I'm sorry if I'm rambling or if I'm making htis confusing but I am losing my mind trying to figure this out & make her better. I raised her from 3 days old & I can't stand the thought of losing her & it kill sme that she is suffering now. She is so tiny. I can feel every bone. She is half (or less) the size of her siblings. She seemed to get so much better after being on Amprol for 12 hours. Almost completely back to normal. And she ate, and ate, and ate, and ate.... So I am afraid she ate too much, too fast & now she has crop issues. Did I do this by allowing her to eat this way yesterday? Today she won't barely eat anything.

 

[HaleyKrueger]

Did you ever find an answer for this? I'm in the same predicament.

 

[MrsBachbach]

If the crop is huge and not emptying, the chicken is likely blocked. It it is skinny like a bone it has probably been slowly starving. Not much you can do in that case except trying a lubricant like olive oil to hopefully move the blockage or surgery if the blockage is in the crop. Make sure your chickens have access to the appropriate grit when they are penned or when you are raising chicks to prevent blockages. Keep them away from hay!
Another likely problem with big crops that feel full of liquid or gas bubbles is yeast. You want to try to flush the crop and digestive system out if it is a yeast problem. Then treat with apple cider vinegar water and probiotics. The organic apple cider vinegar is best. Here is a link to a site with solutions for poultry. http://msucares.com/poultry/diseases/solutions.html
Go down to the laxative solution to find the recipe for flushing the crop with epsom salt. You may need a crop tube to administer the water solution. Then use the recipe for the cider vinegar water the next day and give that water for a couple of days. If the chicken is feeling well enough, it will likely drink the vinegar water itself. It may take a few days to rid the body of the yeast. Follow up with probiotics. Don't feed any sugar foods or fruits to chicken when treating for yeast infection.

 

[HaleyKrueger]

Thanks! My pulley is being treated for cocci. Hence the source of the fluid in her crop. I had read that you shouldn't feed vinegar and corid at the same time, as it counteracts each other. I also read that the vinegar wouldn't be good for a sensitive gut from the cocci. Thoughts on this?

 

[MrsBachbach]

Sounds reasonable. My suggestion was for a sour crop or yeast infection. If it is cocci related, then stick with Corid.