HELP!! Sour Crop??

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Duramycin-10 for seven days 1/4 tsp per gallon of water. I only had one with symptoms but read they all had to be treated. She ate a 1/4 of a boiled egg tonight also. Her crop is still pretty squishy but ii's not as large. I'm not sure she could vomit now. I am still massaging her and feeding yogurt. She seems to feel better but not getting my hopes up just yet, she is far from being herself.
 
casportpony said:
Many things can cause a crop to not empty.

-Kathy
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I probably just got lucky. Mine had a very large sqhuishy crop, I thought she was just growing faster than the others. When I noticed it was all in front I picked her up and she puked. Googled it and a article from 'The Chicken Chick' popped up, read it and did what she said. I probably should have given it a couple days of pushing it all out, but it I figuered she was going to die anyway if food wasnt getting through, she had been like that for over a week, it worked and no problems after. Her streatched out crop even went back to normal.
 
Reporting in on our six month old with sour crop: she ate a ton yesterday, an entire scrambled egg with olive oil, 3 tablespoons of yogurt, and her feeder crumbles. I am currently using the game bird crumbles for her to give her extra nutrients. She pooped many times, most of them loose, but by last night there was normal looking one. From eating all that food yesterday, her crop was the size of a tennis ball, but firm. This morning it has gone down is size but it definitely wasn't empty. I tried getting her to puke, but nothing came out. In fact there wasn't even a hint that she would. She is eating her crumbles as I type and seems fine. She even laid a very nice egg yesterday.

I am going to try the dewormer starting today. What is the egg protocol when giving chickens the safeguard?

Thanks for all the advice,
Edith
 
The vet is not really an option for us. We had a little speckled sussex that was at the bottom of the pecking order. We did not realized she was starting to death. But since she was our daughter's favorite, we took her to the vet. They gave her tube feedings, and between the tube feedings and the cost of the visit, it was $300 by the time we were done. Then the poor girl died a week and a half later. She just couldn't recover. This was only about a month and a half ago. I just can't spend that kind of money on another chicken at this time.

Edith
 
She is eating and drinking just fine. This morning she has eaten her crumbles and about 2 tablespoons of yogurt so far. She's even had a very large, well formed poop. It's just that her crop isn't emptying all the way by morning. In fact, as I am typing this letter, she had her second "beautiful" poop of the day. I haven't been this much into fecal analysis since my kids were in diapers. Maybe she is on the road to recovery. Should I still use the safeguard at this point', just in case? Also, I would imagine I should still continue to massage her crop to keep things moving along. Is that correct?

Thanks so much for taking the time to answer all these questions.

Edith
 
Hi again Kathy, I went to Tractor Supply and Southern States, a local feed store, and could only find Safeguard feed for use with cattle, swine, and Turkeys. I also found another deworming feed for chickens called Strike 3, Type B. Strike 3 did not mention if it could be used for egg laying chickens. I will check out your link for tubing our girl.

Edith
 

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