Crop problems

[Grousesandgooses]

Welcome to the site! Sorry to hear your girl is feeling ill. How old is she? Passing blood can be a sign of coccidiosis, but it’s usually found in relatively young chicks.

She’s about 10 months old. I did do a round of treatment for coccidiosis which did coincide with the blood stopping. I finally took her to a vet on Tuesday who did a fecal float which came back negative for everything. She ended up just prescribing antibiotics and suggested she could have cancer, but neglected to address my concerns about her crop, which is frustrating! My husband picked her up and didn’t think to ask about it before taking her home.

 

[Grousesandgooses]

So the blood and the crop impacting happened almost a year apart. She’s been totally fine since passing so much blood (she wasn’t in our care when it happened but what I was told was it was a significant amount for 1.5 days and then never happened again). She’s been normal poops though when we first got her, which was a couple of months after that incident, her poops were huge amounts of watery grossness.

After the crop impacting and tearing herself literally to shreds, happy to report she’s doing great and her crop works as it should despite the trauma. We get her stitches out on the 22nd.

What I will say is that this unintentional crop surgery likely is what resolved her impaction. Before stitching her up, the vet pulled many feathers, ROCKS, and debris as well as spoiled food and sour liquid from her crop and irrigated it to try to prevent infection.

Many vets can perform crop surgery that isn’t as extreme as what we had to go through- visually two incisions staggered from each other, one through skin one through the crop and then they do the same thing, pull all the junk out.

We were treating with mineral oil (vet said 5ml) and crop massage to see if we could get things to pass however, I think when it gets as bad as mine did that won’t work.

Yikes!! I’m so glad she’s doing okay now! My girl’s really isn’t too bad, just feels slightly full at all times. Like one of those sand filled balloons they use to keep helium balloons grounded haha. And her digestion is clearly quite off.

Has your girl laid eggs since healing from the blood incident? I suspected ours was caused by a reproductive issue and kind of expect her to never lay again, but just curious of other experiences. She hasn’t laid since right before the blood happened.

 

[NewAtThis8]

Yikes!! I’m so glad she’s doing okay now! My girl’s really isn’t too bad, just feels slightly full at all times. Like one of those sand filled balloons they use to keep helium balloons grounded haha. And her digestion is clearly quite off.

Has your girl laid eggs since healing from the blood incident? I suspected ours was caused by a reproductive issue and kind of expect her to never lay again, but just curious of other experiences. She hasn’t laid since right before the blood happened.

She has not laid, going on almost a year since the incident so I suspect the same- I’m thinking she popped out part of her reproductive system and she’ll just never lay again, which is okay. There’s two of us and 5 chickens, we get more eggs than we need weekly so she’s just a spoiled chicken pet