I want to suck the sour crop liquid out with a feeding tube from my chicken's crop but

[hayley3]

I was just wondering if anyone has done this and knows how far down the tube should be inserted. I watched a video, and she put the tubing in but she could not pull the syringe out which I felt she was hitting something solid or was it because she didn't push air in first...idk.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I have never heard of anyone doing this. The risk of aspiration sounds like it would be very high. Interested to see what others have to say.

 

[hayley3]

I have never heard of anyone doing this. The risk of aspiration sounds like it would be very high. Interested to see what others have to say.

Aspiration risk is higher if you turn them upside down...Actually this is how vets do it, draw out the fluid or do surgery..I just want to make sure I do it right. I can see the tracheal opening so I know to avoid it but I am not sure why this woman was not able to completely suck out the contents..she had an air issue maybe.

 

[Susan Skylark]

It isn’t easy to aspirate fluids out of a stomach/crop even when we are talking cows with a 40 gallon stomach, a chicken with a couple mls will be very difficult and won’t make an appreciable difference to the animals health while the stress caused is probably counter productive. It makes you feel good but doesn’t help the bird. Between soft tissue clogging the tube which you then bruise and make even more edemetous, semisolids dissolved in the liquid which interfere with suction, small fluid volume, and the risk of aspiration pneumonia or trauma to the trachea/esophagus and minimal if any therapeutic effect, this is a bad idea.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Vets aspirate fluid by turning a wide awake critter upside down? Maybe on tv….?!

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Vets aspirate fluid by turning a wide awake critter upside down? Maybe on tv….?!

I think removing it with the syringe out the top is what OP is saying vets do. I wouldn’t know I have never taken a chicken to vet for sour crop lol

 

[hayley3]

It isn’t easy to aspirate fluids out of a stomach/crop even when we are talking cows with a 40 gallon stomach, a chicken with a couple mls will be very difficult and won’t make an appreciable difference to the animals health while the stress caused is probably counter productive. It makes you feel good but doesn’t help the bird. Between soft tissue clogging the tube which you then bruise and make even more edemetous, semisolids dissolved in the liquid which interfere with suction, small fluid volume, and the risk of aspiration pneumonia or trauma to the trachea/esophagus and minimal if any therapeutic effect, this is a bad idea.

She's going to die if I don't do something.

 

[SkyAJK]

Oh..that sound very risky and uncomfortable for the sick chicken.

There are many ways to treat sour crop, I would try those first.

 

[hayley3]

Oh..that sound very risky and uncomfortable for the sick chicken.

There are many ways to treat sour crop, I would try those first.

Doctors do it all the time to humans. I've tried all the various remedies...she has too much fluid in there, so some needs to come out.

 

[SkyAJK]

Doctors do it all the time to humans. I've tried all the various remedies...she has too much fluid in there, so some needs to come out.

That stubborn sour crop!
I had been in your shoes now so many times so I hear you loud and clear.

In desperation I had tip her over while gentle massage her crop toward her head for a very short time, liquid came out and I put her straight back up, her face and comb turned almost black . That was near death!!!!! It eased the balloon sour crop a bit. Non of the my hens died from this procedure as I was very quick, but it was high risk and in desperation I did that.

Some of my hens end up passed away, not from that procedure, but from some sort of ill health that stop the crop from ever be emptied, their system shutdown so crop stopped working and turned sour. I only came to this after they passed.

I am tagging some Educators here to assist you.
@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock

Thinking of you and your hen