greenviolet
In the Brooder
- Aug 22, 2025
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New to posting!
One thing I'd like to share right away is that I have used ChatGPT to come up with an hour-by-hour treatment plan for a chicken that had suspected sour crop but confirmed crop stasis and that since FULLY recovered. I haven't seen many people mention using AI to come up with treatment plans for sick chickens yet, but it worked SO well I feel like I have to share. Some things I learned:
Timing is everything. If a chicken is sick, you have hours and minutes to act, not days.
Chickens who are extremely sick may not show it if they are still with the flock, where they will try to "Act" healthy so as not to lose their spot in the pecking order. My chicken would "recover" some when another chicken was in the same hospital pen, but was in fact getting worse. When I took her away from the other chicken, she dropped the act and then I saw how sick she really was.
Draining the crop as completely as possible was the first step to the chicken's recovery. "Massaging" the crop when it was still full of liquid did NOT help the crop stasis. The crop seemed to have to be completely empty in order to "re-start."
Giving access to water was extremely monitored for about 2 days. I was up in the middle of the night every hour. It was exhausting, but worth it. The plan limited the water significantly so the crop would not get overwhelmed.
Be very careful and make sure your chicken is in a dim, quiet space so their body can concentrate on healing.
I used the AI because a vet wouldn't give me information on what to do to help my chicken and told me it would probably die. And that lit a fire under me really quick. I put in the crop stasis and sour crop diagnosis and the other mitigating factors such as the time she started being sick and showing symptoms into the AI chat that the vet disregarded, but because the AI can pull information from a much, MUCH greater variety of resources, I think that was why it was able to come up with a plan that worked. I am not saying it is foolproof or will work in every situation (for example, a longer sick time may be beyond help), but it was worth it for me to try instead of watching my chicken suffer without doing anything.
I hope this can help someone else in the future.
One thing I'd like to share right away is that I have used ChatGPT to come up with an hour-by-hour treatment plan for a chicken that had suspected sour crop but confirmed crop stasis and that since FULLY recovered. I haven't seen many people mention using AI to come up with treatment plans for sick chickens yet, but it worked SO well I feel like I have to share. Some things I learned:
Timing is everything. If a chicken is sick, you have hours and minutes to act, not days.
Chickens who are extremely sick may not show it if they are still with the flock, where they will try to "Act" healthy so as not to lose their spot in the pecking order. My chicken would "recover" some when another chicken was in the same hospital pen, but was in fact getting worse. When I took her away from the other chicken, she dropped the act and then I saw how sick she really was.
Draining the crop as completely as possible was the first step to the chicken's recovery. "Massaging" the crop when it was still full of liquid did NOT help the crop stasis. The crop seemed to have to be completely empty in order to "re-start."
Giving access to water was extremely monitored for about 2 days. I was up in the middle of the night every hour. It was exhausting, but worth it. The plan limited the water significantly so the crop would not get overwhelmed.
Be very careful and make sure your chicken is in a dim, quiet space so their body can concentrate on healing.
I used the AI because a vet wouldn't give me information on what to do to help my chicken and told me it would probably die. And that lit a fire under me really quick. I put in the crop stasis and sour crop diagnosis and the other mitigating factors such as the time she started being sick and showing symptoms into the AI chat that the vet disregarded, but because the AI can pull information from a much, MUCH greater variety of resources, I think that was why it was able to come up with a plan that worked. I am not saying it is foolproof or will work in every situation (for example, a longer sick time may be beyond help), but it was worth it for me to try instead of watching my chicken suffer without doing anything.
I hope this can help someone else in the future.
If you find issues again, we have several great crop articles written by our members. Here are two of the best:
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