Impacted Crop: 1 week old

[Leenidia]

Sasha’s crop finally emptied! It was a fright!!!
Thank y’all for the attentiveness and support! I value and appreciate all of talks suggestion and advices!!

Im so happy for BYC because without this informative site, I would not have been able to assist Sasha!!!

Howdy! Thank you for reading and advice.

I checked a variety of informative sites and realized that Sasha has an impacted crop. I have given water with ACV and olive oil, and only providing grit as she isn’t drinking but eating.
She appears to be happy, playful and not in distress. She is pooping and peeing.

I have massages her crop to help with moving the food in case it’s sticking to her walls.

I am afraid of inducing vomiting for fear of aspiration. Is there anything else that I can do to help Sasha without hurting her?

Thank you again!

 

[AmyJane725]

If she's not drinking I'd honestly take the food away. She's just gonna clog herself up more. At the very least make a very wet mash. Get water down her. You can give Non-stimulant dulcolax or colace.

What kind of bedding does she have? Could she possibly have been eating wood chips? And just to verify, what makes you think she has an impacted crop? Is it full first thing when she wakes up in the morning?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She appears to be happy, playful and not in distress. She is pooping and peeing.

only providing grit as she isn’t drinking but eating

Is she your only chick?
How are you brooding her - with a light or heating pad/plate?

She is happy/playful, pooping, eating.
The only way to gauge proper crop function would be to check it first thing in the morning or for a chick if it's got a light on 24/7, take out food for about 4 hours and see if the crop is going down. Chicks eat a lot, they are little and their crop can look very large when they have been eating drinking.
I would not extend treatment until I confirmed the crop was indeed impacted

A chick(en) with an impacted crop is generally not going to be happy/playful and eating more - if they did eat more, eventually food/fluids would be coming back out of the beak. Generally they are not pooping very much either.

I would provide her with plain fresh water and her feed, you can offer the feed wet if you wish. Make poultry grit available free choice.

Keep us posted on what you find out.

 

[ellend]

Has she had access to any fibers woven into paper, or long grass? They can impact a crop. As the above response suggested, take away food (not water) for 4 hours or more and see if the crop empties. If so, you are good. If not, you've got impaction. That is very difficult to deal with, and I've decided that I won't put my birds through treatment for that any more; it hasn't gone well for them. Hopefully yours is just a full baby crop. They do eat like pigs! P.S.: don't pick grass for them. When they eat it outdoors, they tear off little bits. If the grass is picked and put in their cage, without roots and dirt, there is no way they can pull little bites off. If they eat the entire piece of grass like spaghetti, it can wind into balls in their crop and impact them.

 

[Saaniya]

Howdy! Thank you for reading and advice.

I checked a variety of informative sites and realized that Sasha has an impacted crop. I have given water with ACV and olive oil, and only providing grit as she isn’t drinking but eating.
She appears to be happy, playful and not in distress. She is pooping and peeing.

I have massages her crop to help with moving the food in case it’s sticking to her walls.

I am afraid of inducing vomiting for fear of aspiration. Is there anything else that I can do to help Sasha without hurting her?

Thank you again!

You shouldn't give food If the crop didn't go down

And don't give alot of grit to tiny baby chicks
You have to wait and see

If crop is big and soft you should try giving some Fennal Seed Tea it's very good and work wonder in many cases of slow crop

 

[Leenidia]

Thank you! Crop went down!!!

You shouldn't give food If the crop didn't go down

And don't give alot of grit to tiny baby chicks
You have to wait and see

If crop is big and soft you should try giving some Fennal Seed Tea it's very good and work wonder in many cases of slow crop

 

[Leenidia]

She sleeps with me because her momma was eaten by a fox. I have been nurturing her for a week now. I know she can’t be alone because she is so young.

Her crop went down with the ACV and olive oil mixture I gave her. I took her food away and only gave her grit. I put her in her enclosure only to eat. I do bring her to the flock three times a day to get acquainted and then with her but she still not ready.

I knew it was impacted because it was the only thing that made sense.

Thanks for reading.

If she's not drinking I'd honestly take the food away. She's just gonna clog herself up more. At the very least make a very wet mash. Get water down her. You can give Non-stimulant dulcolax or colace.

What kind of bedding does she have? Could she possibly have been eating wood chips? And just to verify, what makes you think she has an impacted crop? Is it full first thing when she wakes up in the morning?

Has she had access to any fibers woven into paper, or long grass? They can impact a crop. As the above response suggested, take away food (not water) for 4 hours or more and see if the crop empties. If so, you are good. If not, you've got impaction. That is very difficult to deal with, and I've decided that I won't put my birds through treatment for that any more; it hasn't gone well for them. Hopefully yours is just a full baby crop. They do eat like pigs! P.S.: don't pick grass for them. When they eat it outdoors, they tear off little bits. If the grass is picked and put in their cage, without roots and dirt, there is no way they can pull little bites off. If they eat the entire piece of grass like spaghetti, it can wind into balls in their crop and impact them.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Glad she is doing better!