Help help, Pendulous Crop in Pullet!

[heatherbeast]

The red tissue in the dropping above looks odd, like it might be blood. Sometimes eating berries can cause something like that, but blood can also be from coccidiosis, worms, or eating something sharp. I don’t think she has sour crop yet, since there is no sour or bad odor, but it could progress to that.

I forgot to mention in my first post that a crop bra is how many people help to keep a pendulous crop from getting too big. That should be done once her crop goes down some, and the position of it can be tricky to get right. Both @azygous and @coach723 have written about their experiences with crop bras. I would make one or buy one to use. My experience with crop problems has not been a lot so I would rather they would advise.

Another treatment some do is use acidified copper sulfate in the water for a few days. I think that jefferspet.com sells it, and the dosage is 1/4 tsp per gallon for 3 days. Hopefully your hen will get better, but this may be a chronic problem. If it turns sour, that can be much harder to treat.

Awesome, thank you for the response. I am vexed and mystified by her. Ultimately I do think she will be wearing a crop bra. I am comfortable with crop surgery, and have many exotic vet friends who can help me with analgesia/anesthesia. I understand aseptic technique since my day job is a microbiologist, so my threshhold for the surgical solution is pretty low.

The good news is that the unwholesome bloody polyp seems to have been a one-off! She is back to either pooping fairly normal after I give her crumbles (but with soft, flabby crop), or brown liquid (with more normal, deflated, denser crop) on my laptop keyboard while I am trying to take pictures.

She is pretty low-energy right now due to minimal feeding.

 

[heatherbeast]

Lilli has resolved her distended/slow crop. Restricted diet and treatment for sour crop did the trick. She is completely fine after I ordered two crop bras for her!

 

[Eggcessive]

That is great news. Thanks for updating.

 

[Josip]

Lilli has resolved her distended/slow crop. Restricted diet and treatment for sour crop did the trick. She is completely fine after I ordered two crop bras for her!

So i can give her vaginal cream for yest to eat?

 

[heatherbeast]

So i can give her vaginal cream for yest to eat?

Hi there, I was giving her apple cider vinegar and yogurt to displace the yeast, and coconut oil to lube up and help her pass any blockages (which in hindsight may have been that bloody polyp I posted earlier. I'd suggest applying creams only to vents.

 

[avjudge]

So i can give her vaginal cream for yest to eat?

Yes, you can safely give the vaginal cream by mouth. If you're dealing with sour crop, or think you might be, you should read the article on it here on BYC - and the comments thread attached to that article:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

I found it very helpful when I was dealing with this.

(This link was given in the second post in this thread but I thought it was worth reposting!)