Crop very swollen first thing in the morning — sour crop treatment?

[threeblueducks]

See how it goes in the morning, if she's still pooping normal poops, llthats a hood sign. If the poops turn green, that means nothing is getting through.
It could be a partial obstruction or just slow.

Okay. Sorry, I had a busy day today but this morning her crop was a little smaller, and same thing this evening. I gave her a dish of plain chicken feed along with her water today.
Tomorrow I may give her some coconut oil and/or yogurt to see if I can get things moving through.
It is worrying me a bit that her crop still hasn’t cleared completely. Do you think that

 

[nuthatched]

Okay. Sorry, I had a busy day today but this morning her crop was a little smaller, and same thing this evening. I gave her a dish of plain chicken feed along with her water today.
Tomorrow I may give her some coconut oil and/or yogurt to see if I can get things moving through.
It is worrying me a bit that her crop still hasn’t cleared completely. Do you think that

If she can still eat and poop ok, I'd just monitor her. Whatever it is might eventually move.

 

[threeblueducks]

No change yesterday, but I did get her to eat ~2 teaspoons of coconut oil.
This morning her crop was closer to the size that it was on Monday. I made her a crop bra out of vet wrap to see if it might help and gave her another 1–2 teaspoons of coconut oil along with some damp feed & water. She did a normal poo while I was watching her and then started sunbathing, so she doesn’t seem in pain/uncomfortable, but just isn’t improving.

Oh and I did see her (what I think was) adjusting her crop a couple times.

 

[threeblueducks]

I fed her a good 2 teaspoons of coconut oil again tonight before bed. Her crop still hasn’t gone down and she threw up on me a little bit as I was giving her the coconut oil (I think that I squeezed her crop accidentally). It wasn’t much, just a little bit of liquid with a few small particles of grain in it on my finger (I was using it to open her mouth), but it smelled a the tiniest bit sour, like moist grain that had been sitting out for a day.

Does anybody think that I should give her crop bound capsule/stool softener? Or would it be better to worm her (as it isn’t hard/impacted)?
TwoCrows’ article did say that the coconut oil may take a few days to work, so it may still fix it, but I just want to do everything that I can to help her get better.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

You need to address the crop symptoms and see if you can resolve them before you start using a crop bra.

It can take a week or two sometimes to get the crop functioning well, it's too early to try a bra.

Check her crop first thing in the morning before she's had anything to eat/drink. If the crop is not emptying, then access what it actually feels like and then begin treatment. Coconut oil is a good thing to give along with any of the other treatments.

Be sure she's drinking and eating normally, photos of her poop may be helpful as well.

She's a large bird, so probably eats quite a bit and fills up. I'd leave her with her flock unless she's getting picked on. There's no need to isolate, just pull her aside for daily treatment if needed.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

 

[threeblueducks]

You need to address the crop symptoms and see if you can resolve them before you start using a crop bra.

It can take a week or two sometimes to get the crop functioning well, it's too early to try a bra.

Check her crop first thing in the morning before she's had anything to eat/drink. If the crop is not emptying, then access what it actually feels like and then begin treatment. Coconut oil is a good thing to give along with any of the other treatments.

Be sure she's drinking and eating normally, photos of her poop may be helpful as well.

She's a large bird, so probably eats quite a bit and fills up. I'd leave her with her flock unless she's getting picked on. There's no need to isolate, just pull her aside for daily treatment if needed.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

Okay, thank you. I have been checking her crop first thing in the morning for the past three days (when I noticed it Monday morning she was still up on her perch) and it has varied from around the size of a softball to that of a small apple.

She is still drinking well and eating a little. I would like keep her isolated for a bit because I want to be able to monitor her closely at least a little while longer, so I can see how much she’s eating, drinking, pooping, etc and keep her away from stuff that could potentially make it worse. I have been putting her in the coop with the flock at night, though.

This morning she ate another couple teaspoons of coconut oil and I massaged her crop for about 10 minutes afterward. That brought her crop down probably 10%, but it was still apple or medium orange-sized. As I was watching her, she did an odd cough/sneeze thing where she shook her head, make a sneeze-y noise, and opened her mouth, sort of gasping. I have a video but I’m not sure how to attach it.

Here are some photos of her poop:
(not from today though, so I might try to get some fresh pics later)

Spoiler: Poop pics