HELP! Impacted Crop

[GLDCHICKEN]

My husband and I have a Dark Brahma that has had an impacted crop for 3 days. we have kept her isolated, massaged the crop several times a day for 5+ minutes at a time, given her oil and water in a syringe several times (water more frequently than the oil), and we have withheld most food. I have given her an egg and some yogurt because it has been so many days and I was hoping that would get things moving maybe. I think the impaction is stringy grass.

I have not tried to turn her upside down to empty the crop. I have read mixed things, and this is a hard impaction, not sour crop, so I am not sure what to do. additionally, we are about to leave for a vacation for 10 days. At what point should we cull this bird? I absolutely dont want to do this prematurely, but I also dont want to have a bird suffering and slowly starving without intervention while we are away.

as of now, she seems happy besides the hard crop. she has an appetite, eats when I feed her, is not looking lethargic, and even laid an egg yesterday. Poops are very wet, which makes sense because of all the water and minimal soft food.

What is the best option at this point?

thank you in advance for your help!

 

[FarmerGirl101]

Do not make her vomit, this can be very dangerous. You've done everything good so far. Does she have free access to grit? If it is grass then she needs grit to help break it down. Here is an article that has another treatment to try for an impacted crop.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/another-remedy-for-slow-impacted-crop-problems.79871/

 

[Chold05]

You can try feeding her a half- 1 tablespoon of coconut oil then massaging her crop. I would do this 3x a day for several minutes. Massage gently in an upward motion with the pads of your finger tips to try and break up the mass. It especially helpful to do this in the morning before she eats.

Don't allow her to free range or eat anything other than soft foods. You could offer her wet mash, in addition to scrambled egg, or raw egg yolk via syringe if needed.