Day 28 update:
Soaked and rewrapped her foot today. Here are some pics of what her foot looks like today:
Side view to show size, starting to look more chicken foot sized, and I think some of the swelling at her ankle has gone down!!
Will plan to remove more pus later this week to continue to let her foot heal. She's been limping on it, so I know it's painful. Will be so glad once we get all the pus out so she can completely heal. She's been laying down a lot, so I've been keeping an eye on her breast blister. There is a suspicious looking spot again, but I'll just keep watching it. Forgot to get a picture though.
On another note, the most pressing issue we have now is that her crop won't empty and she's not pooping much. I had been treating for doughy crop, but her crop slowly got worse so I switched to treating for sour and impacted crop since I had re-read the crop issue article and saw that sour crop doesn't always smell at first. Monday morning was the last time I was able to tube food into her becuase her crop has been so full and refuses to empty. That day I noticed very little poop in her crate compared to the other days. So I decided to start treating for sour and impacted crop. I've tried the coconut oil with massages, stool softner (once daily so far because I ran out and had to get more at the store), molasses flush-as much as I thought her crop would hold, twice daily doses of monistat, and started ACS today to see if it would help with the sour crop. It did mostly empty Monday night and I was able to force feed her some of her pellets until she felt fairly full (it was really late and my chicken holder was asleep so couldn't tube her by myself, she's a fighter!). She did great with these and swallowed them well. Thought she might could do better with the pellets than the torpedo mash. I also gave her coconut oil with a massage and 20ml of the molasses water. But then yesterday morning, her crop was still full and felt like hardening playdough. I could still squish it, but it was tough. That is the first time her crop has felt hard. I did one coconut oil treatment with massages to help loosen it up. That helped make the mass soft, but it still didn't go down much. Late afternoon her crop was still full, but it looked like she drank some water. I should've had molasses in the water, but she hadn't been drinking in the last couple of days so didn't expect her to now. I've since changed her water to the molasses water. Last night I was only able to tube about 10ml of molasses water into her, and this morning I barely got 10ml of ACS solution in her. I just gave her a stool softner this afternoon as I was finally able to go to the store. Her poops have been very runny since yesterday, so I'm hoping that her system is finally working, but I'm concerned since I haven't been able to give her any actual FOOD since Monday night.
@azygous Since you wrote the article and seem to be the crop issue expert, what are your thoughts? She's been on the monistat since Monday night, so 2 full days of doses now. When I massaged her crop it seems like there's air in there because it gurgles. Today it's more sloshy sounding, which would account for all the liquids. Whenever her crop was mostly empty, it felt very much like soft playdough. I did go get her some greek yogurt that I'll try to feed her later tonight to get some good probiotics in her. I had been giving her the probiotic powder in her drinking water, but have had to add it to her liquids I tube her since she had stopped drinking. Hoping she'll like the yogurt.
