Impacted and/or Sour crop treatment

[azygous]

Yes, one inch two times a day for the remainder of the treatment regimen.

 

[Winderdear]

Yes, one inch two times a day for the remainder of the treatment regimen.

Thank you! Sorry, I just wanted to make sure I had the right dosage.

As for today’s update, she pooped a lot overnight, all watery with urates, but with a good amount of solids too. Since we gave her the stool softener yesterday, perhaps this is why.

What worries me is that there were bits of undigested egg in the poops, and earlier this afternoon she had another poop with a bit of undigested egg.

We gave her another stool softener this morning, and the 1” of miconazole. She was initially extremely thirsty and didn’t want to eat anything, but after we gave her the medicine her appetite came back. I assume the yeast levels were high in her crop and making it irritated, so she had a manic need to drink, and the miconazole must have helped.

She has had 1.25 eggs so far today. I weighed her first thing in the morning and she was 4.02lbs. We’ll weigh her again tomorrow and see if the number goes up or down.

We had a fecal test done at our local vet and it came back negative.

Overall her crop feels smaller than yesterday, but doughy. She is less stinky today, but clearly her crop is still sour.

 

[Winderdear]

Thought I’d keep going with the daily updates!

Her crop was significantly smaller and softer this morning. Not fixed by any means, still quite smelly and doughy, but I was encouraged to see the size reduction. Also, her weight went up slightly, to 4.07 from 4.02, which was heartening.

Overall her behavior, energy levels, appetite and poops are pretty much the same.

My husband wanted to try feeding her kefir for the probiotics, and had read elsewhere that it can be helpful fighting sour crop. We have given her about 1.25 teaspoons today. She drank a few sips on her own but most of it we had to syringe into her mouth.

We’re going to do one more day of miconazole, but are considering driving her to an exotic vet about 2 hours away if there isn’t marked improvement tomorrow morning.