I saw all the dosages for Corid for mixing with water, what about a direct oral dosage?

[casportpony]

I just massaged it, and emptied some of it. Hopefully she will feel a bit better, she may have an obstruction?

This is an older hen, yes? If she is still pooping it's unlikely that she has an obstruction. Slow crops can have many causes. Such causes can be cancer, parasites, protozoas, bacterial infections, fungal infections, disease, ascites, etc.

Can you get your hands on a bag of fluids and give her some subcutaneously? If not, do you want to learn how to tube feed?

 

[mrhoodie]

A crop issue is often just a symptom of another problem, as I think it is in this case. Your poor girl seems to have a lot going on. Are those blisters on her comb? It's unfortunate she has just finished molting with a bald head.
It could be a blockage causing her full crop this morning. Her whole system seems out of whack so it could be all blocked up.
Did you check for an egg as already suggested??
If she is egg bound nothing will really work for her until she passes the egg.
Only give her easily digestable food for now while her crop is acting up. Eggs, yoghurt, and most importantly - her own feed soaked in water. And keep massaging her crop, multiple times per day to help get it moving. I wish you and your girl the best. I hope she starts picking up.

I agree, she does have a lot going on. I did soak her the other day. But not properly, not for any extended period of time, and I didn’t use epsom salt. It is so cold here right now, I was worried about her getting wet. But I may have to. She hasn’t laid an egg in over a year. Thank you for the advice.

 

[mrhoodie]

This is an older hen, yes? If she is still pooping it's unlikely that she has an obstruction. Slow crops can have many causes. Such causes can be cancer, parasites, protozoas, bacterial infections, fungal infections, disease, ascites, etc.

Can you get your hands on a bag of fluids and give her some subcutaneously? If not, do you want to learn how to tube feed?

I have tubed fed different species before, not chickens though: but kittens, pigeons, and marine mammals. I don’t have any of the proper supplies anymore. As you can imagine her crop smelled very foul. Poor girl. I don’t have any fluids either. I am on a very limited budget right now, the Corid, electrolytes, chicken drench, and Amoxicillin, dwindled my funds ;( And yes, she is an older hen-7 years old.

 

[mrhoodie]

Thanks for everyone’s help! But it was just more than my poor girl could endure, she died tonight. Bye bye Bonnie Blue.

 

[aart]

 

[casportpony]

Thanks for everyone’s help! But it was just more than my poor girl could endure, she died tonight. Bye bye Bonnie Blue.

I am very sorry for your loss.

 

[mrhoodie]

Thank you.

 

[casportpony]

Are you close to Davis, Tulare, Turlock, or San Bernadino? If so, you might be able to convince CAHFS to waive the $20 necropsy fee, but I will understand if you would rather bury her because that's what I prefer to do when one of my beloved chickens dies.

 

[mrhoodie]

Are you close to Davis, Tulare, Turlock, or San Bernadino? If so, you might be able to convince CAHFS to waive the $20 necropsy fee, but I will understand if you would rather bury her because that's what I prefer to do when one of my beloved chickens dies.

I already buried her. A necropsy would have given me some piece of mind, since I have so many chickens. But I am not close to any university with a vet hospital. The closest university to me is Cal Poly, and that doesn't have an outside vet hospital. Thx.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thanks for everyone’s help! But it was just more than my poor girl could endure, she died tonight. Bye bye Bonnie Blue.

I'm very sorry to hear about Bonnie Blue
She was a lovely lady, I'm sure she will be missed.