Good Morning all!
I have a girl with an impacted crop I'm not sure how long it's been impacted and it's not terribly huge. She's in the middle of molt, so I just chalked up the not really eating the last couple of days to that. I did some massage yesterday with no results and I did the oil thing this morning. A couple, probably 3 tbsp down the gullet with a weak kid feeder and massaged. She has lost quite a bit of weigh. She down from 8.25- 7 (she was on the thin side of normal to begin with), not sure how much of that is from the molt and how much from the crop. She's still acting mostly OK. She was out looking for bugs last night, but didn't eat any solid food, except for some peanuts I put through the food processor, so they were little pieces. I don't want to let it go to long. I'm nervous about surgery because I don't want to kill her, but not terribly squeamish about it. What I'm wondering is how long I should keep trying other things before I do the surgery. She doing that soft green poo thing, which is never a good sign in my experience. I also don't want to do too much oil in fear that I kill her that way. A body can only process so much of that.
Anybody have any suggestions? Should I go in? How long should I wait?
Thanks!!!
I have a girl with an impacted crop I'm not sure how long it's been impacted and it's not terribly huge. She's in the middle of molt, so I just chalked up the not really eating the last couple of days to that. I did some massage yesterday with no results and I did the oil thing this morning. A couple, probably 3 tbsp down the gullet with a weak kid feeder and massaged. She has lost quite a bit of weigh. She down from 8.25- 7 (she was on the thin side of normal to begin with), not sure how much of that is from the molt and how much from the crop. She's still acting mostly OK. She was out looking for bugs last night, but didn't eat any solid food, except for some peanuts I put through the food processor, so they were little pieces. I don't want to let it go to long. I'm nervous about surgery because I don't want to kill her, but not terribly squeamish about it. What I'm wondering is how long I should keep trying other things before I do the surgery. She doing that soft green poo thing, which is never a good sign in my experience. I also don't want to do too much oil in fear that I kill her that way. A body can only process so much of that.
Anybody have any suggestions? Should I go in? How long should I wait?
Thanks!!!