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featherhead007 said:
Feels like her crop/abdomen is full of fluid? I have nothing to drain it out with. The feed store is closed today (holiday) they sell syringes.
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Alex, is she fluidy down low at her fluffy butt area? Or just her crop? Do you have low dose aspirin on hand? In my experience, and I’vevread from others as well, 81 mg of aspirin can sometimes help with the fluid retention/ascites.
 
featherhead007 said:
Feels like her crop/abdomen is full of fluid? I have nothing to drain it out with. The feed store is closed today (holiday) they sell syringes.
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Can you attempt to get her to eat a bit of cold coconut oil? Sometimes they will peck at that when they won't eat. If you put a small chunk in her beak, she will most likely swallow it. Also, if able....something is blocking her crop....can you try to massage but in a downward motion (like milking a cow) to try to work things DOWN into the gizzard, instead of UP? Can you feel a lump near the base of the crop & work on that??? It sounds like some kind of blockage.

The only other thing I can think of isn't good. How does her abdomen feel? Hard and full, of soft and squishy. If it is hard and full, it could be serious ascities 'overflowing' that would also make her breathing labored as it puts stress on lungs and other organs. I am REALLY hoping it is a crop issue, as that is much more treatable.
@BY Bob any ideas/suggestions? @micstrachan ?
 
It’s tricky, Alex. If she’s that fragile, handling her and upsetting her could send her over the edge. If her crop is really full of fluid, you could cause her to aspirate. However, if she is calm and you are confident you can get stuff into her without aspirating her, I would try the aspirin, and see if she will eat some coconut oil. The coconut oil could possibly help break up whatever the blockage is, and the aspirin might help with the ascites. These are sort of desperate measures, but up to you if you want to try them. If she’s that fragile, I might opt to just hold her and love her.
 
micstrachan said:
It’s tricky, Alex. If she’s that fragile, handling her and upsetting her could send her over the edge. If her crop is really full of fluid, you could cause her to aspirate. However, if she is calm and you are confident you can get stuff into her without aspirating her, I would try the aspirin, and see if she will eat some coconut oil. The coconut oil could possibly help break up whatever the blockage is, and the aspirin might help with the ascites. These are sort of desperate measures, but up to you if you want to try them. If she’s that fragile, I might opt to just hold her and love her.
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Right now, she stopped gagging for air, and seems to be breathing out her nostrils. I’m afraid to move her at all this moment
 
micstrachan said:
OK, if the bloating is not in her abdomen, forget the aspirin. I agree coconut oil is your best bet right now. Be very, very careful if you plan to do any massage of her crop if it’s really full and fluidy.
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I massaged her crop earlier, she vomited out a bunch of junk.
 

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