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[Fontaine]

I have read conflicting info on this site. It may be a matter of opinion. If it makes a difference which is better ….when massaging to gently massage up or to massage down.? Thanks

 

[coach723]

Massage down, you don't want to force contents up the esophagus or the bird could aspirate them, which can be fatal or cause aspiration pneumonia. Massaging down will help prevent that. You also want to press into any mass with your fingers and try to break it up into smaller bits that might pass. How gently to go depends very much on how full the crop is, what it's full of, the fuller with contents the more careful you need to be, the more likely they could be pushed up. Often a bird with crop stasis has a problem farther down the digestive tract.

 

[Fontaine]

That makes sense. Thanks so much .I do think her problem is farther down the digestive tract.