Courtney Jane
Chirping
Hi guys! My chicken Matilda has been having crop issues for about 8 days now. I noticed when she was pooping basically nothing but water and her crop was bulging. I thought it was an impacted crop so I isolated her and stopped feeding her and I added Apple cider vinegar to her water. 2 days ago I bought her stool softeners because I read they can help soften the impacted food in the crop. She’s had 5 50mg tablets in 2 days. No change yet. I put them in plain yoghurt to disguise them and that helped get them down but I couldn’t get her to take them yesterday :/
I’ve also been giving her several crop massages a day. Nothing is helping so far. After reading up more on this I wonder if it’s a doughy crop I’m dealing with. The crop kneeds like dough and holds its shape. Her poop is still just water with speckles of green so obviously what ever is in her crop isn’t moving through so am I still doing the right thing by not feeding her? I’ve made the lemon bicarbonate soda, cinnamon, ginger and cayenne pepper mix I saw somewhere on here and she drank one dose of that yesterday. I did add some of the chicken feed to it though to make it more appealing to her. She ate it pretty quickly. Since then I’ve tried to feed her more but she’s not interested now. I tried to open her beak to put the tablets in since she won’t eat them in the yoghurt anymore but I can’t get her to hold still and I feel like im gonna break her neck. Same thing goes for trying to syringe feed. Seems impossible to me.
Can anyone offer me any advice on what else I can do? since it’s day 8 I’m not feeling confident and have pretty much accepted she’s not going to make it but I still want to do what I can. A trip to the vet isn’t an option because last time I took a chicken to the vet with a crop issue it cost me $400. Any help is much appreciated.
She’s only 1 and half years old. She’s not currently laying. Egg production has been slow for the last year between my 3 birds and I’m not sure who’s letting down the team. But now I think about it I can’t recall the last time I collected one from her specifically.
She’s a big bird. Bigger than the other 2 and she’s top of the pecking order. She’s not super lethargic or anything yet either.
I’ve also been giving her several crop massages a day. Nothing is helping so far. After reading up more on this I wonder if it’s a doughy crop I’m dealing with. The crop kneeds like dough and holds its shape. Her poop is still just water with speckles of green so obviously what ever is in her crop isn’t moving through so am I still doing the right thing by not feeding her? I’ve made the lemon bicarbonate soda, cinnamon, ginger and cayenne pepper mix I saw somewhere on here and she drank one dose of that yesterday. I did add some of the chicken feed to it though to make it more appealing to her. She ate it pretty quickly. Since then I’ve tried to feed her more but she’s not interested now. I tried to open her beak to put the tablets in since she won’t eat them in the yoghurt anymore but I can’t get her to hold still and I feel like im gonna break her neck. Same thing goes for trying to syringe feed. Seems impossible to me.
Can anyone offer me any advice on what else I can do? since it’s day 8 I’m not feeling confident and have pretty much accepted she’s not going to make it but I still want to do what I can. A trip to the vet isn’t an option because last time I took a chicken to the vet with a crop issue it cost me $400. Any help is much appreciated.
She’s only 1 and half years old. She’s not currently laying. Egg production has been slow for the last year between my 3 birds and I’m not sure who’s letting down the team. But now I think about it I can’t recall the last time I collected one from her specifically.
She’s a big bird. Bigger than the other 2 and she’s top of the pecking order. She’s not super lethargic or anything yet either.
