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I have a year old Chocolate Orpington named Goose that has a crop issue that hasn’t responded to some of the suggested treatments. She eats a mix of layer mash and all flock crumbles with grit and oyster shell available.
I noticed her behavior was off on Friday (quieter, isolating, drinking obsessively and not eating much).
Crop check Friday night = water balloon with gravel in it.
Crop check Saturday morning = small bag of gravel. Moved her to hospital pen and started coconut oil and gentle massage several times throughout the day. Gave several doses of stool softener (several hours apart) when oil didn’t produce much change. Offered water and a scrambled egg (might have made a mistake not withholding food?). Very watery diarrhea with green specks. Very full watery crop. Put her back in chicken house to roost in evening.
Crop check Sunday morning = bag of dough with gravely bits. Back in the hospital pen. Gave several doses of “dough buster… lemon juice, cinnamon, cayenne, ginger”. Gave more oil, stool softener and gentle massage. Offered water and another egg. Started dewormer with liquid Safeguard. No sour smell from crop. Lots of diarrhea. Very full watery crop. Put her back to roost with the rest.
Crop check Monday morning = water balloon with gravel. Back to hospital pen. Dewormed again and started Monistat twice daily even though no smell from mouth. Made decision to put her back with the group and let her self regulate food and water (mistake since crop wasn’t really ever empty??).
Fast forward to today. Still doing dewormer and Monistat. No change really except she ACTS like she feels way better. BUT still very full crop and diarrhea; see picture from this morning when I put her back in the hospital pen for a few hours to monitor food and poop. There was a slightly more substantial poop from her this evening with a lot of short pieces of grass which is strange because she hasn’t been on grass for over 4 days! She produced that after an hour in the chicken tractor this evening… don’t think the grass could have gone through her that quick!?
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
I noticed her behavior was off on Friday (quieter, isolating, drinking obsessively and not eating much).
Crop check Friday night = water balloon with gravel in it.
Crop check Saturday morning = small bag of gravel. Moved her to hospital pen and started coconut oil and gentle massage several times throughout the day. Gave several doses of stool softener (several hours apart) when oil didn’t produce much change. Offered water and a scrambled egg (might have made a mistake not withholding food?). Very watery diarrhea with green specks. Very full watery crop. Put her back in chicken house to roost in evening.
Crop check Sunday morning = bag of dough with gravely bits. Back in the hospital pen. Gave several doses of “dough buster… lemon juice, cinnamon, cayenne, ginger”. Gave more oil, stool softener and gentle massage. Offered water and another egg. Started dewormer with liquid Safeguard. No sour smell from crop. Lots of diarrhea. Very full watery crop. Put her back to roost with the rest.
Crop check Monday morning = water balloon with gravel. Back to hospital pen. Dewormed again and started Monistat twice daily even though no smell from mouth. Made decision to put her back with the group and let her self regulate food and water (mistake since crop wasn’t really ever empty??).
Fast forward to today. Still doing dewormer and Monistat. No change really except she ACTS like she feels way better. BUT still very full crop and diarrhea; see picture from this morning when I put her back in the hospital pen for a few hours to monitor food and poop. There was a slightly more substantial poop from her this evening with a lot of short pieces of grass which is strange because she hasn’t been on grass for over 4 days! She produced that after an hour in the chicken tractor this evening… don’t think the grass could have gone through her that quick!?
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance