Crop still Impacted after 3 days

[ChookieG]

Great news everyone! My girl managed to clear her crop by herself overnight! I have kept all green materials out of the run at the moment and will monitor for another 2-3 days before I revert to her normal diet.

Thanks once again to everyone that's contributed! Have a great day!

 

[Chickenlover12354]

Great news everyone! My girl managed to clear her crop by herself overnight! I have kept all green materials out of the run at the moment and will monitor for another 2-3 days before I revert to her normal diet.

Thanks once again to everyone that's contributed! Have a great day!

What exactly did you do to fix her? My chicken has impacted crop and I'm having a hard time helping her.

 

[ChookieG]

What exactly did you do to fix her? My chicken has impacted crop and I'm having a hard time helping her.

Hey there really sorry to hear about your girl. I'm not sure of your situation so maybe you could give me a breakdown of what you've done so far.

What I can say for now is that the two most important things you'll need to do ASAP first are:

1. Isolate her: ensure there's no foraging material or any food she can consume.
2. Remove all green and fibrous material out of reach from her.

After this, you will need to feed her with chook-safe vegetable oil and massage her crop to assist the clump to break down and pass through her crop. I've done only up to 4 times per day for 2 days - every 30 mins each time syringe-fed with 10 ccs rice bran oil and massaged in a downward circular motion for 10 min. I initially gave her a cup of ACV water on day 1 but she was trying to clear her crop by herself so she drank all of it and her crop was extremely bloated so I took the water away. On day 3, I only gave her 1/2 cup yoghurt. Nothing else.

On day 4, she was passing normal stools but she still had an impaction. I gave her another cup of yoghurt. I let her out into the run on day 5 but OMITTED all green and fibrous material. She cleared her crop the following day. She wears a crop bra 24/7 and hasn't had an incident since but I've ensured that all the grass that I feed her now is NO MORE than 2 inches long. Avoid extremely rough and fibrous green matter like cleavers (hook weed) even though my chooks love them. All other green material fed to her are ONLY tender young shoots.

Take heart that you've identified the problem early. I've seen fatal cases of impaction that had probably been left for too long - the crop was putrid and leaking pus out from the skin.

Hope that helps!