Fresh papaya seeds to help digest crop contents?

[Chickerella2012]

I have a young pullet that's been ill for about a week. She's losing weight and I am tube feeding her high fat baby bird feed. Before I started tube feeding her, I fed her thawed corn and peas. Evidently one pea is too big to exit the crop. So it's been sitting in there for 3 days...
No matter how much or long I massage her crop, that one pea won't budge! I read that fresh papaya seeds help with digestion of the crop contents? Getting some in a little bit.
She digests everything just fine, except that one pea...
Any thoughts?
I appreciate any help

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have a young pullet that's been ill for about a week. She's losing weight and I am tube feeding her high fat baby bird feed. Before I started tube feeding her, I fed her thawed corn and peas. Evidently one pea is too big to exit the crop. So it's been sitting in there for 3 days...
No matter how much or long I massage her crop, that one pea won't budge! I read that fresh papaya seeds help with digestion of the crop contents? Getting some in a little bit.
She digests everything just fine, except that one pea...
Any thoughts?
I appreciate any help

Did you try coconut oil to slicken the crop for better crop massage results? It might help in this case.

I'm not sure if papaya seeds are good for chickens, I need better information on this subject.

 

[Chickerella2012]

Did you try coconut oil to slicken the crop for better crop massage results? It might help in this case.

I'm not sure if papaya seeds are good for chickens, I need better information on this subject.

I read that it's the flesh of the fruit and not the seeds that have the digestive enzymes. But will give her both, just to make sure. Yes, papaya and the seeds are great for chickens.
And yes, I've used coconut oil and olive oil to help with that. That one pea won't budge. It sits at the very bottom of the crop. Have massaged it up towards the middle. That pea won't go

 

[MysteryChicken]

I read that it's the flesh of the fruit and not the seeds that have the digestive enzymes. But will give her both, just to make sure. Yes, papaya and the seeds are great for chickens.
And yes, I've used coconut oil and olive oil to help with that. That one pea won't budge. It sits at the very bottom of the crop. Have massaged it up towards the middle. That pea won't go

Okay, interesting.

This must be some large pea. Weird that the coconut oil, & olive oil didn't work.

Hopefully someone that knows more about these issues can help you out.

 

[Chickerella2012]

it's a bigger sized green pea. Dunno why it's so stubborn. I'll puree some flesh and add that to the tube feeding session. As said, she digests and expels the liquid feed just fine. Just not that one pea. Very frustrating. I may have to try and mash it with my fingers and see if it'll leave then. Not sure why I didn't think about that sooner. lol

 

[MysteryChicken]

it's a bigger sized green pea. Dunno why it's so stubborn. I'll puree some flesh and add that to the tube feeding session. As said, she digests and expels the liquid feed just fine. Just not that one pea. Very frustrating. I may have to try and mash it with my fingers and see if it'll leave then. Not sure why I didn't think about that sooner. lol

Smashing the pea may work.

 

[Chickerella2012]

http://www.poultrydvm.com/supplement/papaya

 

[MysteryChicken]

http://www.poultrydvm.com/supplement/papaya

The link is interesting, but I'll have to look up it's beneficial claims, & see it's actually scientifically correct. Never heard of Papaya being used as a dewormer before.

 

[Chickerella2012]

The link is interesting, but I'll have to look up it's beneficial claims, & see it's actually scientifically correct. Never heard of Papaya being used as a dewormer before.

It's just the seeds that have anti helmitic properties. I just don't see myself putting 50 seeds per bird down their beak haha
That would be a lot of seeds... for over 100 birds!
But the seed extract powder may work as well.

https://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=PH1998100640

 

[MysteryChicken]

It's just the seeds that have anti helmitic properties. I just don't see myself putting 50 seeds per bird down their beak haha
That would be a lot of seeds... for over 100 birds!
But the seed extract powder may work as well.

https://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=PH1998100640

Thanks for all this interesting info.