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Hello everyone,
My name is Patti and I am a frequent visitor to your posts here on your forum! I want to thank all of you for providing such a wealth of information, ready help, and generous willingness to guide me and my husband Walter through our Chicken adventures! And many adventures we have had!

We have two hens (number three passed last spring). They have had several issues. We have had a long-term pecking problem, an egg-bound problem, shell-less egg problem, a broken toe at the nail, yolk peritonitis, and our latest issue, sour crop. Oh boy! We thankfully had your forum member posts to guide us to positive outcomes in every one of these challenges.

I'm sure that you now think that we are the negligent owners who have no right to own backyard chicken! That is really not the case. This is not our first batch of hens and had never experienced any issues at all! Despite the sleepless nights, hours of panic, and, yes, even a couple of tears, we love our little hens!

I have joined this forum to hopefully share our knowledge on how we have managed our emergencies and difficulties.

Thanks again for such a nice community!
Patti
 
Hello! Thanks for the welcome!
We have just survived our first sour crop incident that began last Sunday morning. We realized that our little Rhonda (nearly three years old) had an issue but only figured out that it was related to a blockage somewhere in her digestive tract in the afternoon. Her crop was larger and felt like a water balloon.

I hit the forum to find out how to act quickly! I started by massaging it every half hour. A few hours later, I decided to drain her crop and massaged again several more times over the afternoon...still no progress. That late afternoon, we gave her a mix of one tablespoon spoon of ACV and one tablespoon of water administered orally with a syringe. We left her over night to see if there are any movement.

The next morning, she was lethargic and her crop was still not draining. I drained it again over the next couple of hours. That was about the time that I wondered if the blockage was further back than the crop, perhaps the gizzard or a bowl obstruction. She crop seemed to be filling with more than what I had put into her. The liquid at that point was very brown and had bits of seeds in it. I was beginning to lose hope but decided to persist. ***major advice here....be quick and tenacious when dealing with emergencies concerning these little critters!

We gave her an equal mix of plain yogurt and water, again administered with the syringe. I left her again for a couple of hours.

At about 2:30 yesterday, I felt her crop and it did not seem full but it gurgled so I attempted to drain it again. Something more substantial than liquid like grassy bits came to her mouth. I believe that was the source of the blockage.

About an hour later, she was waltzing around the yard, a little shaken I think, but was perking up by the minute.

We have put AVC water (1 TBL per litre) in the run and given her boiled egg yolk mixed with about a tsp of yogurt and about 10mg of Fluconazol mixed in it. She is eating the layer's mix (no seeds) and bit of soft squash insides (without the seeds).

This morning, she is acting her usual self, curious, enthusiastically eating her layer's mix. Her poop was very dark, most likely from the brown sour crop remnants.

Phew! Disaster thwarted!
Thanks again to everyone here!
Patti
 
mojowp said:
Hello everyone,
My name is Patti and I am a frequent visitor to your posts here on your forum! I want to thank all of you for providing such a wealth of information, ready help, and generous willingness to guide me and my husband Walter through our Chicken adventures! And many adventures we have had!

We have two hens (number three passed last spring). They have had several issues. We have had a long-term pecking problem, an egg-bound problem, shell-less egg problem, a broken toe at the nail, yolk peritonitis, and our latest issue, sour crop. Oh boy! We thankfully had your forum member posts to guide us to positive outcomes in every one of these challenges.

I'm sure that you now think that we are the negligent owners who have no right to own backyard chicken! That is really not the case. This is not our first batch of hens and had never experienced any issues at all! Despite the sleepless nights, hours of panic, and, yes, even a couple of tears, we love our little hens!

I have joined this forum to hopefully share our knowledge on how we have managed our emergencies and difficulties.

Thanks again for such a nice community!
Patti
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Welcome to BYC!! :)
 
mojowp said:
Hello! Thanks for the welcome!
We have just survived our first sour crop incident that began last Sunday morning. We realized that our little Rhonda (nearly three years old) had an issue but only figured out that it was related to a blockage somewhere in her digestive tract in the afternoon. Her crop was larger and felt like a water balloon.

I hit the forum to find out how to act quickly! I started by massaging it every half hour. A few hours later, I decided to drain her crop and massaged again several more times over the afternoon...still no progress. That late afternoon, we gave her a mix of one tablespoon spoon of ACV and one tablespoon of water administered orally with a syringe. We left her over night to see if there are any movement.

The next morning, she was lethargic and her crop was still not draining. I drained it again over the next couple of hours. That was about the time that I wondered if the blockage was further back than the crop, perhaps the gizzard or a bowl obstruction. She crop seemed to be filling with more than what I had put into her. The liquid at that point was very brown and had bits of seeds in it. I was beginning to lose hope but decided to persist. ***major advice here....be quick and tenacious when dealing with emergencies concerning these little critters!

We gave her an equal mix of plain yogurt and water, again administered with the syringe. I left her again for a couple of hours.

At about 2:30 yesterday, I felt her crop and it did not seem full but it gurgled so I attempted to drain it again. Something more substantial than liquid like grassy bits came to her mouth. I believe that was the source of the blockage.

About an hour later, she was waltzing around the yard, a little shaken I think, but was perking up by the minute.

We have put AVC water (1 TBL per litre) in the run and given her boiled egg yolk mixed with about a tsp of yogurt and about 10mg of Fluconazol mixed in it. She is eating the layer's mix (no seeds) and bit of soft squash insides (without the seeds).

This morning, she is acting her usual self, curious, enthusiastically eating her layer's mix. Her poop was very dark, most likely from the brown sour crop remnants.

Phew! Disaster thwarted!
Thanks again to everyone here!
Patti
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Glad she's better! You did a great job on treating her! Here's a good article about sour and impacted crop incase you need it some other time.->
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/
 

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