Impacted crop, need help!

[azygous]

Now that would be some innovation.

You need an oral syringe to fit the tubing. You only need about a nine inch piece of tubing and a syringe where its nozzle fits inside the tubing. The idea is to inject the fluids, not express them.

 

[azygous]

Wrap the chicken tightly in a towel to control wings and feet.

The principle is to insert the tubing into the crop as this photo shows, only you will be inserting a tube not the syringe as shown. Once the tubing is inserted, then you hold the wrapped up chicken in one arm while sucking up the solution with the syringe with the other hand and inserting it into the tube and squirting the fluids into the crop until you've emptied the half cup.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Now that would be some innovation.

You need an oral syringe to fit the tubing. You only need about a nine inch piece of tubing and a syringe where its nozzle fits inside the tubing. The idea is to inject the fluids, not express them.

@azygous, I'm following along in case I ever need this info, and I have a question. What is meant by "express" here?

 

[azygous]

I am referring to the OP's mention of using a breast pump for this application. It won't work because a breast pump mechanically expresses milk from the breast by sucking it out. The reverse is necessary for tubing fluids into a chicken.

I'm not sure what kind of breast pump it is. Some are electrical, and if you set it up to suck the solution from the cup, it could push too much fluid too quickly into the crop.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Ah. Perhaps she was just planning on using the tubing? I don't know...

 

[chickenmomma16]

I am referring to the OP's mention of using a breast pump for this application. It won't work because a breast pump mechanically expresses milk from the breast by sucking it out. The reverse is necessary for tubing fluids into a chicken.

It has silicone tubing. I wasn’t going to pump anything out.

 

[azygous]

I'm here if you still have questions.

 

[chickenmomma16]

Wrap the chicken tightly in a towel to control wings and feet.

View attachment 3403031The principle is to insert the tubing into the crop as this photo shows, only you will be inserting a tube not the syringe as shown. Once the tubing is inserted, then you hold the wrapped up chicken in one arm while sucking up the solution with the syringe with the other hand and inserting it into the tube and squirting the fluids into the crop until you've emptied the half cup.

Here’s what I have. Think this will work? I will cut it to 9-10”

 

[chickenmomma16]

I'm here if you still have questions.

Thank you

 

[azygous]

Yes! Perfect! Measure his crop from throat to bottom of the crop sack. Then allow for two or three inches to protrude from the beak and cut it. Be sure the end that goes into the crop doesn't have ragged edges.