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FulhamFlossandClover said:
Thanks - I will take a look.
The vet thinks it is an infection. Her droppings are small and he has suggested soft food mainly veggies.
She is such a sweetie we would hate anything to happen to her.
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Clearing an impacted crop takes a lot of work. This is how I cleared it for a pullet of mine.
She was crated in the coop with the others with only water to drink.
I mixed the contents of one capsule of Docusate sodium (100 mg) STIMULANT FREE into some human veggie baby food, drew it up into a syringe and very carefully gave that to her directly in her beak using this method:

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She was also fed about 1/2 tsp coconut oil. I then gave her about 50 mls of water using the syringe method (I have a syringe that holds 10 mls) and massaged her crop to break up the contents. Then she went back into the crate with ONLY WATER to drink.
Every 1.5 hours, I gave her another 50 mls of water and a crop massage.
Every other treatment, I fed her another 1/2 tsp of coconut oil.
In the morning, her crop was much better but not completely empty so I repeated the previous days treatment. Again, food was withheld.
The next day her crop was flat. I kept her in the crate and gave her a very wet mash made from her feed along with the water. She was given as much as she wanted to eat and I continued to check on her throughout the day, I removed food and water after dark. Her crop was full that night and empty the next morning so I released her back into the flock but kept the flock in the run that day so they could not forage and had to just eat their normal feed.
After that, it was back to business as usual and she has been fine ever since.
This works for a mildly impacted crop. If your pullet ate something that isn't going to break down, she may need crop surgery to clear it.
If it's sour crop, she will need a systemic treatment for the yeast infection.
The article I linked has lots of helpful tips in it.
Good luck with her.
 
DobieLover said:
Clearing an impacted crop takes a lot of work. This is how I cleared it for a pullet of mine.
She was crated in the coop with the others with only water to drink.
I mixed the contents of one capsule of Docusate sodium (100 mg) STIMULANT FREE into some human veggie baby food, drew it up into a syringe and very carefully gave that to her directly in her beak using this method:
She was also fed about 1/2 tsp coconut oil. I then gave her about 50 mls of water using the syringe method (I have a syringe that holds 10 mls) and massaged her crop to break up the contents. Then she went back into the crate with ONLY WATER to drink.
Every 1.5 hours, I gave her another 50 mls of water and a crop massage.
Every other treatment, I fed her another 1/2 tsp of coconut oil.
In the morning, her crop was much better but not completely empty so I repeated the previous days treatment. Again, food was withheld.
The next day her crop was flat. I kept her in the crate and gave her a very wet mash made from her feed along with the water. She was given as much as she wanted to eat and I continued to check on her throughout the day, I removed food and water after dark. Her crop was full that night and empty the next morning so I released her back into the flock but kept the flock in the run that day so they could not forage and had to just eat their normal feed.
After that, it was back to business as usual and she has been fine ever since.
This works for a mildly impacted crop. If your pullet ate something that isn't going to break down, she may need crop surgery to clear it.
If it's sour crop, she will need a systemic treatment for the yeast infection.
The article I linked has lots of helpful tips in it.
Good luck with her.
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thank you. we did try olive oil and massage. but the vet thinks it is an infection. she is so happy in herself showing no signs of illness (I know they are good at hiding illness) she is even dust bathing. we will withhold food and try massaging as well. we have to give her medication every 12 hours and every 8 hours so that will keep us busy.
thank you everyone.
 
FulhamFlossandClover said:
Hi,

We are new to keeping Chickens but did loads of research before getting our 3 girls in March

They have been great and are now producing lovely eggs.

Floss is in charge and then Fulham and Clover is the bottom chicken.

We are living in Spain and the chickens have an enclosed run and coop.

One morning we noticed that Clovers crop was still full. We separated her and tried massaging her crop after giving her some olive oil. No food just water.
The other 2 are fine.

After a couple of days she didn't improve. She is fine in herself, eating, bathing etc. So we took her to our Spanish vet who specializes in exotics.

He prescribed Xeden in tablet form. Metoclopromide liquid form for Clover and Toltrazuril for them all in the water (sorry if I haven't spelt these correctly the vets handwriting is very hard to read.

She hasn't improved and we have taken her back to the vet and she now has some different medication.

We haven't been eating the eggs from Fulham and Floss as we were worried about the eggs being contaminated with the medication. (Clover isn't laying at the moment)

We have since read that Toltrazuril should not be given to chickens that produce eggs for human consumption. We have tried to google this for reasons why but can't find anything.
We understand that a withdrawal period is needed before eating eggs from medicated chickens - but we are worried we might not be able to eat the eggs again.

We have followed this site for a long time and have finally "plucked" up the courage to join.

Thank you and hope someone might be able to help.

:fl
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