Impacted crop...Not getting better.

[rebrascora]

Unfortunately I have to agree with Wyorp Rock. The likelihood is that a mass in her abdomen is constricting her gut and backing her up resulting in her crop being slow. Feel around her vent and between her legs and compare to one of your other hens. There was another thread here on BYC recently where a lady had the same problem with her hen. After a significant vets bill she made the decision to euthanize the bird and her husband opened up the hen and found her oviduct was packed solid with "Lash eggs" which are a mixture of puss and egg material caused by an infection. You may be able to feel something similar if you insert a lubed gloved finger into your chicken's vent. That might help you make the difficult decision. If she has an infection of the oviduct (salpingitis) and isalso packed with "lash eggs" then there really is no hope.
I will post a link to that thread so that you can read it and see if it sounds similar
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/eggbound-after-sour-crop-euthanize.1207070/

 

[rena421]

Thank you for your reply.
My little lady of leisure sadly passed away. We were giving her Nilstat the thrush medication as a last ditch effort to fix her crop. It seemed like a large dose but I went with it hoping it would fix her. She then started not eating and drinking as much and I thought it was the medication filling her up so I just kept trying different foods. In the end we had to syringe feed her little bits of water. My husband thought maybe she had aspirated a little bit, but I think that her organs had been shutting down. She took some kind of seizure and just died. I keep thinking "if only I had..." thoughts, but I do think she had some kind of tumour or cancer. The avian vet pushed for x-rays which probably would have led to a hysterectomy, but I didn't think that fair on her and she was quite underweight, so she probably wouldn't have survived the anaesthetic anyway.
I didn't go down the necropsy path, we just buried her in the garden where she was happy.
Wishing your chickens well

 

[rebrascora]

I'm so sorry to hear she passed but at least she is out of her suffering.
Best of luck with the rest of your flock.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I'm sorry to hear about your loss

Don't beat yourself up. From your description she was very sick. Most chickens do not survive surgery, so it was best that her last days were at home with you where she was loved and being well taken care of.

 

[rena421]

Thank you rebrascora

 

[rena421]

Thank you Wyorp Rock.
She was sleeping in the lounge room whilst she was sick. Although she is now out of pain and I still have my cats, dog and son in here, it seems quiet without the feathery lady hanging out in the corner. So silly.

All the best