I have a BO that has been feeling down for the last three days. I found a large lump of 'stuff' mainly alfalfa I think, but also one large pumpkin seed in her crop (this seed is from last week when we gave the chickens pumpkins). She was eating until I took her off food for the last 24 hours. Now she will not eat, and things in her crop smell all sour.
So is it an impacted crop or sour crop. How on earth do I get the pumpkin seed out. I spotted it three days ago and it is still there. I can't feel as much alfalfa but it is still in there too. Also it feels like there are a lot of sunflower seeds.
Her crop isn't blown up like I've seen online, but she is very gassy and is smelling worse and worse as the day goes on. I have her on ACV in her water (refused to drink it). Tried the red wine (she really liked that), yesterday I flushed her crop with oil (er butter), a lot, she's had very greasy poops with solid green stuff in them. Almost like diarrhea with a solid/softish very fibrous poop inside. After giving her the oil I noticed a lot of whole millet seeds that were passing through her. It is like she's all the sudden not digesting the seeds. I let all my hens free range, and I often still put scratch in their food just in case.
I tried in the last hour to get her to eat yogurt and she will not eat that (usually she'll slurp it down so fast you'd think you never filled the bowl). She would eat a lemon though. I don't get this bird.
Anyway my husband thinks coke can dissolve anything (he claims it dissolves nails). I don't know, I'd have to use diet coke so the yeast infection will not flare up. What do you think? Do I need to do surgery to get the seed out? And the rest of the yuck out. What do I need? What do I do. I'm so confused after reading online. Lots of forums talk about sour crop and impacted crop and I'm confused. I've tried everything I have read about and now I'm feeling overwhelmed. I called an avian vet and they quoted me around 1K. Yeah you read that right. Jerks! We all love our chickens, but I'd be so sad to loose our little honey since she is the only one that loves us so much (well after all this she may hate us). Thanks for your help!!!
So is it an impacted crop or sour crop. How on earth do I get the pumpkin seed out. I spotted it three days ago and it is still there. I can't feel as much alfalfa but it is still in there too. Also it feels like there are a lot of sunflower seeds.
Her crop isn't blown up like I've seen online, but she is very gassy and is smelling worse and worse as the day goes on. I have her on ACV in her water (refused to drink it). Tried the red wine (she really liked that), yesterday I flushed her crop with oil (er butter), a lot, she's had very greasy poops with solid green stuff in them. Almost like diarrhea with a solid/softish very fibrous poop inside. After giving her the oil I noticed a lot of whole millet seeds that were passing through her. It is like she's all the sudden not digesting the seeds. I let all my hens free range, and I often still put scratch in their food just in case.
I tried in the last hour to get her to eat yogurt and she will not eat that (usually she'll slurp it down so fast you'd think you never filled the bowl). She would eat a lemon though. I don't get this bird.
Anyway my husband thinks coke can dissolve anything (he claims it dissolves nails). I don't know, I'd have to use diet coke so the yeast infection will not flare up. What do you think? Do I need to do surgery to get the seed out? And the rest of the yuck out. What do I need? What do I do. I'm so confused after reading online. Lots of forums talk about sour crop and impacted crop and I'm confused. I've tried everything I have read about and now I'm feeling overwhelmed. I called an avian vet and they quoted me around 1K. Yeah you read that right. Jerks! We all love our chickens, but I'd be so sad to loose our little honey since she is the only one that loves us so much (well after all this she may hate us). Thanks for your help!!!
