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Thank you so much. I need to get the acv outta there then.Wow! A girl ! I wouldn't know the first thing about what to do with a girl, let alone a princess!![]()
You may already have your answers, but this site is very good and easy. http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/2013/06/natural-treatments-for-sour-crop.html
Sour crop is a yeast infection and you need to empty the crop to cure it. So NO FOOD, no sugars of any kind including ACV. The yeast feeds on sugars found in grains, etc.
This is from the website:
If the crop does not empty after the first 24 hours:
- Withhold water for the first 12 hours
- Withhold food for 24 hours
- After the first 12 hours, give only clear, clean water with no additives
- At this point I release the bird but I continue observation [COLOR=0000CD](This is if the crop has emptied after 24 hrs)[/COLOR]
- I give the bird only clean water and try to get the crop empty to start treatment
- Do not feed the bird any solid food at all until the crop is empty. If it is not empty there is a reason. Adding more volume (food) is not going to help
- Use a dropper to give olive or coconut oil
- Massage the crop
If the crop swells up again
After the crop empties:
- Confine the bird to the coop
- I again withhold water for 12 hours and food for 24 hours - you need that crop emptied for treatment to work.
- I massage the crop if it feels hard and impacted. If it is squishy I do a little massaging to get things moving.
- I feed them eggs with a tablespoon of plain yogurt. I just smash the whole egg… shells and all - and stir in the yogurt.
- I observe for the next 24 hours.
- They are offered plain fresh water at all times.
- After 24 hours, if the crop has emptied, I add plain grain to the eggs.
- I observe for another 24 hours.
I do not do much messing with sour crop. [COLOR=0000CD]Sometimes they get something lodged in there that needs time to get out.[/COLOR] I can usually feel it from the outside and massage it out.