Crop issues

[Pixiejan]

Feeling hopeful. I just got significant movement in her crop. I think I was able to reduce it by almost half! Still have one more dose of the lemon & spices mixture to do later.

 

[Pixiejan]

Well we've definitely hit sour crop again (I had paused the monistat 7 when I started the lemon & spices... trying to reduce her stress with the syringe feeding since she get so worked up).

When I went out around 4pm her crop was very squishy and all the burps I got up were very sour smelling. I did half the lemon & spices and then there was nothing more to break up, so I didn't push on. I think I got a little more shifted though, but not much. She ate a little of the fermented feed, but didn't want egg or yogurt. The tube didn't arrive before her bedtime, but I thought around an hour before bed that usually chickens like snow so I tried that and it worked. So I got some fluids into her, halfway through I tried making snowballs for her and that worked better to not get so much air into her crop. I gave a dose of the monistat 7 cream last and she's in 'bed' for the night.

Didn't love her poops today, but they started increasing in frequency later in the afternoon.

I don't think her crop will be empty tomorrow morning, but it should be a lot smaller as long as the monistat starts kicking in.

Since she doesn't want to eat any of the soft foods, but will eat the fermented food, I might change my plan and just give her 100% fermented food. I'm hoping tomorrow she's feeling a little better and more willing to eat and drink on her own. Her probiotics should arrive early afternoon tomorrow.

 

[Pixiejan]

I think today might be the day we turn the corner!

Saturday I continued with the monistat 7 cream & the lemon and spices (I tried to space them apart). Burps were very sour smelling. There weren't any lumps by the end of the day, it was soft and squishy and I think it was just one big yeast ball. I thought I'd see progress by Sunday morning, but the crop was the same size.

Sunday I'd change tactics a little. I kept going with the monistat but tried syringing in some Pau d'arco tea (1 cc a few times a day) and yogurt. I also changed my 2nd dose of the day to the monistat suppositories from the cream. I read one person say that they found the cream didn't work and my hubby had just picked up the suppositories so I switched a day early and I do think the suppository worked better than the cream (I wonder if for more severe yeast issues it sits in the crop longer than the cream). I also started syringing in some water, I can't tell if she's drinking, but I'm assuming not. I really should tube her, but the tube I bought just looks too big and I don't think I'm ready to add that skill to my list. So I'm trying to go out frequently and get liquid into her. She's still very feisty, but her poops are too watery. She didn't eat as much on Sunday as she had the previous days (and that wasn't much). I also got pretty desperate and tried raw egg to see if she'd eat that and she turned her nose up at it, so I syringed some into her. I also was giving her snow since she'd eat some of that for fluids, I would try and compact it as much as possible so there's less air, but I usually still had to help burp her a little after.

Monday morning (today) her crop felt WAY better. There was still stuff in it, but it felt way less yeasty and more like grain or sand that you can move but not doughy and was able to shift some along before I gave her her morning meds. I let that sit for about an hour and then came out again with food (I tried pretty wet oatmeal with raw egg, so far she's only picked at it) and syringed 1 cc of Pau d'arco tea and some probiotic water. That was about an hour ago and I'm about to head out again and see what fluids I can get into her for 20min and then give her a break, I think I'll try a little more yogurt as well. Her burps yesterday after having the yogurt smelled way better for the rest of the day than Saturday, but today her burps are back to being super sour.

So progress I think, but still lots of work to do. But I'm really hoping that I can get her crop empty or close to empty today.