Gizzard Impaction?? How To Handle ?

[Saaniya]

So long story ..my rooster ate (overeat) fresh corn few weeks back that stop his crop that day we managed to clear impaction and give him his regular grains (basically millet ) last week he again overeat after that he develop the same thing but it become too.delayed in emptying the stuff ..
day 1 : he's pooping.all clear
day 2 :.fecal started showing but slow (sometimes small sometimes visible) dark color.
day 3 : fecal visible but slow crop with appetite
day 4 fecal coming but still slow shows undigested grains poop is still dark color
Pooping coming but not in amount he used to do

what would u suggest flushing his gizzard.
I'm giving him soft food

 

[Saaniya]

Crop is not hard just small amount of millet is there..no sour no smell gave him itraconazole for preventing yeast he is not feeling droopy but yes lost weight from not eating much

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

@Wyorp Rock knows a lot about crops and crop problems.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

@Saaniya is this the rooster that has the infection?

 

[Saaniya]

@Saaniya is this the rooster that has the infection?

Yes, I started his Medicine he is feeling well but his poop are very odd dark green loose old food in the poops like they were somewhat stuck and now Passing he passed some poop that contain that millet he ate last week which cause all this trouble

 

[dawg53]

There are many factors that could be the cause of what you're dealing with. Here's a link for you to read, photos included:
http://www.plusvet.eu/undigested-feed-in-broiler-droppings-a-serious-problem-for-productivity/

 

[NatJ]

Does the rooster have access to grit? (Little rocks to eat, so they can grind the food inside his gizzard.)

 

[Shadrach]

So long story ..my rooster ate (overeat) fresh corn few weeks back that stop his crop that day we managed to clear impaction and give him his regular grains (basically millet ) last week he again overeat after that he develop the same thing but it become too.delayed in emptying the stuff ..
day 1 : he's pooping.all clear
day 2 :.fecal started showing but slow (sometimes small sometimes visible) dark color.
day 3 : fecal visible but slow crop with appetite
day 4 fecal coming but still slow shows undigested grains poop is still dark color
Pooping coming but not in amount he used to do

what would u suggest flushing his gizzard.
I'm giving him soft food

How brave are you feeling?
I've had a couple of hens and one rooster who developed what I initially thought to be slow crop/sour crop. They all still pooped some but in the morning crop checks it was quite apparent that the crop wasn't emptying properly. I did the usual crop flushing stuff with massage in between the doses of water.
I took the first hen to the vet in the end. I wasn't really getting anywhere.
Gloria the vet thought the problem was with the tube that runs from the crop to the gizzard. Apparently it is not uncommon for something to get lodged in this tube (the proventriculus) and partially block it. Of course other partly digested matter gathers around the blockage and further obstructs the proventriculus.
So, if you can tube feed you can do this.
You need a small soft tube no more than a couple of millimeters outside diameter, an IV Cathater tube will do. They are soft enough. It needs to be long enough to reach the gizzard and leave you enough to grip at the beak end.
The crop sort of hangs off the proventriculus but the exit from the crop to the preventriculus is pretty much a straight line. You can feed the catheter tube past the crop and into the preventriculus gently and dislodge anything stuck there. You need a touch of a midwife and a decent knowledge of where everything is on a chicken. If you feed the tube into the crop, you will know by touch and by estimating how much tube it takes to reach the gizzard. A bit of fiddling about and you will find the exit from the crop to the gizzard. I did ask if you were feeling brave.
What you need to be fairly sure of is how much tube it takes to reach the gizzard but in this case, not actualy enter it. I've had a feel under supervision of Gloria and if the chicken is calm and you are calm it isn't nearly as awful as it seems.
Anyway, slide the tube past the crop, down the proventriculus about half an inch and pull it back out. If there is mucky stuff on the end of the tube there is probalby a blockage. By progressively going deeper with luck you will dislodge whatever is blocking the proventriculus and the chickens natural digestion will keep ti moving.

I must add that this is a two person job; you need another person to hold the chicken because you'll need both hands, one to feel from the outside where the tube is and the other to feed the tube.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Yes, I started his Medicine he is feeling well but his poop are very odd dark green loose old food in the poops like they were somewhat stuck and now Passing he passed some poop that contain that millet he ate last week which cause all this trouble

You've tried a flush to see if that helps?
With him having a Staph infection and this slow crop for a good while, multiple rounds of different antibiotics along with treatment for yeast infection, his system is out of whack.