Granny!!!@rIrs roost sure why not?
great news!
I feed baby carrots now, they getting too fat. ya have to hold them and let them know who is boss, upsidedown belly rubs massages, who dont like those? @twisted-acres-farm
you are not serious granny? who doesnt have a box??? you just keep yours in yer top drawer!
yer serious!!! nah your not granny, I know yer bluff
good go get yer blood drawed
did you do the massage and what you put in? olive oil or what they treat that with?
Hey campin here is my bookmark, this is the one I saved because it makes the most sense to me.I tried to massage it a little Sally. I said olive oil on my thread but someone said it was bad. So now I've gotta go look.
First Treatment
You can start by putting an eyedropper full of vegetable oil into the crop and then massaging the crop. This will soften the impaction. Put the dropper all the way back in the bird's mouth and slowly push out the oil. Any vegetable oil is good: olive oil, corn oil, or canola oil.
Mix
- 1/2-cup baking soda
- 1 pint of warm water
Fill the syringe and insert it as far as you can into the mouth of the chicken. Have someone hold the bird upright in front of you. Slowly and very gently fill the crop, do not over fill and get liquid into that hole at the base of the tongue. Gently press up under the chicken’s breast and slide your hand up to the crop. This makes the bird open its mouth and the impacted mess will come out the bird's mouth. Push the contents up and out of the crop and out of the mouth. You can face the bird toward the ground to help empty the crop. Repeat this gentle stroking pressure until nothing comes up.
If there the crop is not empty, flush it again until it is empty.
Once the crop is empty, give another dropper of oil.
Coop the bird away from other birds so it can rest. Provide about a cup of water with 1 teaspoon terramycin dissolved in it. Give no feed.
Second Day
If the bird is droopy on the next day, put molasses in the bird’s water for about four hours (1/4 cup per gallon of water). Remove the molasses water after four hours and give the bird fresh terramycin water. The molasses water will flush soured food from the bird’s digestive system.
Follow Up Treatment
If the crop impacts again, repeat the flush.
Continue the terramycin for 7 days to avoid secondary infection.
After 24 hours, give only soft food for a week or so. This lets the inflamed and irritated crop recover and prevents another impaction.
The soft diet can include crumbles and chopped hard-boiled or microwaved eggs. You can feed bread if it is soaked in milk or buttermilk. Buttermilk is especially good because active culture buttermilk has good bacteria in it that help the bird’s digestion.
Be sure to also give the bird some beneficial bacteria. They keep digestion going correctly and fight disease by crowding out disease bacteria. You can just mix 1-2 teaspoons per bird of ACTIVE culture yogurt with a small amount of food and give this as the only food until they eat it. You can also buy lactobacillus at health food stores, pharmacies, Wal-Mart, and Lake's Unlimited 800-634-2473.
Give no grains, no large pellets, no not soaked bread, and no grass or greens because these can cause another impaction. Feed only things that almost fall apart when wet.
Glenda Heywood likes to feed this for the week
- 1 slice wheat bread
- 1/2-cup buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons active culture yogurt with no artificial sweetener
- Babyfood (or unsweetened) apple sauce (as Barb recommends below).
Adding oil to the food will help avoid another impaction. Cod liver or wheat germ oil are good because they provide vitamins A, D, and E. Only add about 2% of the feed’s weight.
Granny!!!
2 sites I visited said oil is good ~ the chickenchick being one of them. Administer a eyedropper full of veg oil, corn oil or olive oil. Gently message the crop. Then administer some water with a small amount of baking soda added. This will help counteract sourcrop if that has startedI tried to massage it a little Sally. I said olive oil on my thread but someone said it was bad. So now I've gotta go look.
