Hen with Sour crop... Advise

[colette peters]

I would not leave the epsom salts water as her source of drinking water. That is just a method that can be used to flush the crop if it's slow moving.
Make fresh clean water available to her to drink.
It sounds like she has a crop that is soured, it's good that you area trying the vaginal cream, hopefully you will see some improvement. Keep in mind that there may be something else going on that is causing the crop issues.
If you haven't done so I recommend that you read this article carefully and in it's entirety, it is full of good information:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...d-sour-crops-prevention-and-treatments.67194/

I will replace thank you.
I know it could be more of an issue, I’m just trying my best to not just give up yet.
I’m noticing now that she can’t stop this gagging motion and her mouth is closed when doing it. When she’s done after 5 minutes, She kind of opens her mouth and moves her tongue to clean it out.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Have you looked inside her beak for any plagues, lesions or canker?
A gagging motion could be adjusting the crop or it could be neurological, hard to know.
All you can do is continue to try to help her.

 

[BaltimoreWoolCo]

If she feels well enough to eat, try to get her to drink some keifer. I had two hens with sour crop and once they were eating again the keifer seemed to help a lot. We used this brand http://lifewaykefir.com/all-products/ It's like super charged yogurt. We found it at Walmart.

Good luck! I hope she holds on and recovers from this.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Sorry to hear the vet diagnosis.

 

[Kayla's Lunch]

I am really sorry that you are going through this. You seem like a good chicken-mom.

 

[colette peters]

If she feels well enough to eat, try to get her to drink some keifer. I had two hens with sour crop and once they were eating again the keifer seemed to help a lot. We used this brand http://lifewaykefir.com/all-products/ It's like super charged yogurt. We found it at Walmart.

Good luck! I hope she holds on and recovers from this.

She is doing remarkably well and I took some crumble with warm water and added plain yogurt and made it a stew consistency. This morning was her first day eating with an empty crop she seems really antcy to get out with her sisters.

 

[colette peters]

Have you looked inside her beak for any plagues, lesions or canker?
A gagging motion could be adjusting the crop or it could be neurological, hard to know.
All you can do is continue to try to help her.

Her mouth seems normal and she had about 30 min of that gagging thing yesterday and it never happened again. Like you mentioned maybe she’s was trying to move things around in her crop.
This morning she had an empty crop but a little water ballon maybe the size of a golf ball. Squishy.
I’m on day two of the Monistat cream.
She still has a little stinky breath but no where near what it was two days ago.

Her poop is really green and full of pieces of grass, and I’m thinking this is maybe where the sour crop came from. She hasn’t been around grass in a week. So I’m trying to figure out this green color poop.
I did give her some watered down crumble with plain yogurt this am and went straight for it. And has been drinking water.
She’s so alert and curious and never sits in her cage always standing.
When do you think I can introducer her to her sisters again? @Wyorp Rock

 

[colette peters]

I am really sorry that you are going through this. You seem like a good chicken-mom.

Thanks I’m really trying. It bums me out that the vet said she had marek’s and it’s best to put her down. after reading on BYC, I learned they usually have to do an autopsy to come to that diagnosis. So with that I’m glad I didn’t give up and she now had a second chance to enjoy her life.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

This morning she had an empty crop but a little water ballon maybe the size of a golf ball. Squishy.

She still has a little stinky breath

Her poop is really green and full of pieces of grass, and I’m thinking this is maybe where the sour crop came from. She hasn’t been around grass in a week.

I would not re-introduce her until you get the crop functioning properly.
Having stinky breath and water balloon crop that's squishy in the morning, she's still got a ways to go. Continue your treatment and massage the crop several times a day.
She needs to be drinking and I would only give her watered down feed - no treats of any kind.

Hopefully with a few more days it will all clear up.

 

[colette peters]

She needs to be drinking and I would only give her watered down feed - no treats of any kind.

Hopefully with a few more days it will all clear up.

I noticed when I came home she barley drank water. She had half of her watered down crumble. How can I get her to drink more water?
Also when I got home her crop was not squishy or full.
I have her roaming our family room and is very happy a few times a day for 45 min. Then I put her in the crate. And she’s a good girl and is quiet.
So I think we’ve got some progress.