Impacted crop now sour- crop not clearing

[Krashkop]

I don't know if you are still suffering from this problem with your hens, but I thought I'd jump in to say what we did to save our 8 year old hen from sour crop, since we have a similar situation with the vet and had to figure it out for ourselves.

We isolated our girl and made her a special feed consisting of plain biologically active yogurt, virgin coconut oil, grated cucumber, garlic, oregano, and mint.

The logic was that sour crop is an imbalance of yeast, and that introducing live cultures from the yogurt would help re-balance her crop flora and compete with the yeast overgrowth. The coconut oil was for softening any potential impaction, decreasing fungal growth, and adding much-needed calories to her diet. Cucumber was to add water and electrolytes, and the mint, oregano, and garlic are said to help decrease fungal and pathogenic activity in the crop.

We fed her this special mash every day for 7 days, along with gentle massaging of the crop, and the sour crop cleared up completely. She absolutely loved the food, which was good because she wasn't eating or drinking anything else until we started her on it. We had to raise the food up a little bit for her to be able to access it because she couldn't bend down to eat very well with her crop so swollen.

I hope you don't need this advice any more because your hen is already feeling better, but it is handy have in the future since all of the ingredients are relatively easy to obtain from the supermarket. We used a grater to incorporate the cucumber and garlic, but shoving it all in a food processor would work just as well.

Good luck! x

I know this is old, but I have a hen who had an impacted crop for days. It is no longer hard, but squishy. She is very down, won't eat. I read that sour crop can develop from impacted crop because the material in there ferments. I love your recipe of foods and why. Might you remember how much of everything you used?? I hope?