Emergency! My hen is dying! (Possible sour crop??)

[Minniechickmama]

Follow what we have been telling you and BE PATIENT!!!! I can't say it enough. If her crop is clearing and you are following the steps with ACV and then yogurt, just keep her on the path and keep water in there for her. She will come around.

 

[MikasGirl]

It's been more than three days on the ACV and yogurt..

 

[chickenlady08]

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How does her crop feel? Is it empty? You can give her scrambled eggs (Plain, nothing at all in them. NO salt either)
I hope she is hanging in there along with you and Mom!

Keep us updated!

Lisa

 

[MikasGirl]

Her crop is empty.. we've been trying to give her egg, but she won't eat it. The only way she'll eat it is if I put a little bit in her mouth and then she'll swallow it..

 

[Minniechickmama]

I would stick with the yogurt and if it has been 3 days and her crop is empty, try putting some crumbles in it. If you don't have any, maybe even some corn meal. You want to keep whatever you give her something simple and ground small enough that it won't get stuck in her crop. No whole grains at all. You can also try cooked and cooled oatmeal, that always seems to interest them. I have even given scrambled eggs in the yogurt. You can give her any flavor yogurt as long as it is live culture. They especially love strawberry.
If she won't eat anything now, there may be more wrong with her, but what you originally described sounds like classic sour crop. I would continue with ACV in her water for a time.

 

[impis]

When one of my hens was sick and unable to eat anything, I kept her going by syringe feeding her with egg yolk. As she got stronger, I gradually included egg white, and eventually scrambled the egg for her to take herself. She eventually recovered and regained her appetite. [She'd had egg peritonitis] Sadly a few months later, she took ill again - a hard mass of scar tissue in her abdomen meant that her gut could no longer pass food through it and she had to be put to sleep.

 

[MikasGirl]

She's starving and dying right now. It's my fault.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I am sorry she isn't getting better with what you have done to help. What you described as being what was wrong in the beginning pointed to her having sour crop, but there must be something else going on there. She isn't eggbound, is she? I can't remember if you said you checked her for that or not. I had one that was but I had just gotten her and she must have been that way for a while already and I lost her.
I am so sorry things aren't getting better.