Has impaction turned sour crop but is still hungry and energetic?

[Ccort]

Let’s @Wyorp Rock and we can see if she has any suggestions.

It’s good she does seem to be energetic. How does her crop feel? It hasn’t shrank at all? Can you feel any material in it?

I tried adding @azygous too but may have done that wrong. Im not techy.

Since I started giving her the slippery elm supplement (yesterday) the crop feels less like play-dough and more gelatinous. Today, she started doing that things chickens do where they tweak their neck to adjust the crop. She wasn't doing that before, surprisingly.

This morning I gave her slippery elm, acv, Greek yogurt, pumpkin, coconut oil, digestive enzymes (bought them as a supplement), garlic chunks, still softener, miconazole and the brownish blackish liquid made for chickens for extra supplements. (Forgetting the name right now)

This afternoon, I gave her one scrambled egg (had to put it into her beak because she won't eat it otherwise), coconut chunks, acv.

I've been off and on massaging her crop as well.

She is currently rummaging for bugs, the only thing she seems to want to eat so am letting her. Not sure if I should. She had also been wearing a crop bra for a couple of hours.

Her poop...I can attach a pic. Not much white to it, if at all. Quite runny with some blackish bits.

For the first time, I thought it MIGHT be a tiny bit smaller this morning but it's hard to tell and could be that she just hadn't drank much.

 

[Ccort]

Poop

 

[alinas2010]

Poop

You know…that’s actually a decent amount of poop for having a crop issue…if I had to say so myself, I would think she is having some movement. The fact that she is feeling less energetic overall isn’t surprising given that she is in the middle of a molt. She probably does have a little imbalance going on.

I think the slippery elm will make things more gelatinous feeling. Remember she is molting, too, so sometimes she’ll be less hungry overall and the crop may function slower overall. But let’s see what the others have to say if anything to add. Things may just be moving very slow. What was the black stuff you said she took?

 

[Ccort]

You know…that’s actually a decent amount of poop for having a crop issue…if I had to say so myself, I would think she is having some movement. The fact that she is feeling less energetic overall isn’t surprising given that she is in the middle of a molt. She probably does have a little imbalance going on.

I think the slippery elm will make things more gelatinous feeling. Remember she is molting, too, so sometimes she’ll be less hungry overall and the crop may function slower overall. But let’s see what the others have to say if anything to add. Things may just be moving very slow. What was the black stuff you said she took?

Sorry, the black liquid I gave her is the VetRX poultry supplement. She won't eat anything on her own. She isn't pooping often but when she does, it's like that.

 

[Ccort]

You know…that’s actually a decent amount of poop for having a crop issue…if I had to say so myself, I would think she is having some movement. The fact that she is feeling less energetic overall isn’t surprising given that she is in the middle of a molt. She probably does have a little imbalance going on.

I think the slippery elm will make things more gelatinous feeling. Remember she is molting, too, so sometimes she’ll be less hungry overall and the crop may function slower overall. But let’s see what the others have to say if anything to add. Things may just be moving very slow. What was the black stuff you said she took?

You don't think I should be worried?

 

[alinas2010]

You don't think I should be worried?

Well, I don’t want you to not be worried and let your guard down, but crop issues always take time to resolve and they can be complex. They aren’t always one and done. I know how stressful a sick chicken is, especially when it seems like she isn’t responding.

She’s had a lot the last few days. Let’s focus on the miconazole treatment primarily and getting her digestive system moving a bit more again. Vetrx is similar to Vicks vapor rub for humans, I don’t think it’d be super helpful in this situation.

If she is eating during the day, and her crop is slow to empty, I wouldn’t expect crop changes during the day, so don’t be too worried if you don’t see crop changes during the day. But you’d want to ideally first thing in the mornings. Even just a. Bit smaller every day would be improvement. We want to hope the miconazole treatments are slowing and decreasing the yeast in her crop, causing it to shrink in size. The fact that it isn’t might mean there is still a blockage somewhere along the lines. So keep trying massages, too. I hope she doesn’t have a blockage further down. Those can be tougher to deal with.

Can you get her some tomato juice? Just a little bit, a tablespoon maybe. Don’t force her to drink it but see if she might want to try some. It can help with getting things moving sometimes and crop balance.