Impacted crop to ... doughy or squishy crop?

[WaveyCreekChickens]

Practically everyone forgets about grit when treating a crop disorder. It's especially necessary when you are trying to clear an impacted crop. It may be one reason the hen is gobbling bedding, searching for grit. When we segregate a chicken to treat, they still require grit.

It sounds like she had an impaction, and now it's clearing. But yeast may have begin to colonize the crop due to the slow moving contents. I suggest starting her on a yeast med if you can find it where you live.

Women's vaginal yeast medication is what we normally use, but read the label and be sure it doesn't contain ethel alcohol as miconazole in Europe often does.

There are other crop yeast treatments if you can't find miconazole. Copper sulfate and nystatin are two.

Thank you for coming to help!
I will get her grit now.
The vaginal cream I bought has stearyl alcohol, is that ok?

 

[azygous]

Best not to use that. Stearyl alcohol is ethel alcohol. It may cause problems ina chicken's system. I can't recommend it.

 

[WaveyCreekChickens]

Best not to use that. Stearyl alcohol is ethel alcohol. It may cause problems ina chicken's system. I can't recommend it.

Ok.
She is picking a bit at the grit, and wet crop contents are comong out of her beak still. Even thouh I massaged her crop many times today.
The cream wouldn’t have stayed in anyway.
She has garlic water, I hope that will do for fungal fighting.
Because that cream was all they had.

 

[azygous]

Can you locate a pigeon supply shop near you? Ask for Medistatin. You can safely use that for sour crop.

Or locate acidified copper sulfate. Then there is Epsom salts in a last ditch pinch. It will gently flush the crop and gizzard and intestines, and perhaps wash out any yeast or most of it. Then I would give Greek yogurt for several days to kick the balance in the crop over in favor of strong good microbes that may be able to overpower the yeast.

You only need to massage a crop if it's got impacted material. Massaging a crop with sour liquid won't help, and it forces the liquid into the throat where it may be aspirated into the trachea and lungs.

Garlic is more of a preventative than a cure, but it won't hurt anything. Used with Epsom salts may be better than either by itself.

 

[WaveyCreekChickens]

Shall I continue the coconut oil, or is there a limit to how many times?
Coconut oil pieces have been the only thing she has taken in, other than water. She fights the syringe real bad.

 

[azygous]

If you can find Epsom salts, mix one teaspoon in one ounce of warm water and syringe it into her beak and crop. Do it again in 12 to 24 hours.

Pry open her beak and slip the syringe into the right side of her mouth, slipping it between the side of her mouth and just beside and under the tongue. This will avoid the trachea located in the center of the throat behind the tongue. Get all the mixture into her.

It's not as effective, but you can mix a teaspoon of the E. salts into one cup warm water and let her drink it as she wishes. Mix a new batch tomorrow and continue it for a second day.

 

[WaveyCreekChickens]

Can you locate a pigeon supply shop near you? Ask for Medistatin. You can safely use that for sour crop.

Or locate acidified copper sulfate. Then there is Epsom salts in a last ditch pinch. It will gently flush the crop and gizzard and intestines, and perhaps wash out any yeast or most of it. Then I would give Greek yogurt for several days to kick the balance in the crop over in favor of strong good microbes that may be able to overpower the yeast.

You only need to massage a crop if it's got impacted material. Massaging a crop with sour liquid won't help, and it forces the liquid into the throat where it may be aspirated into the trachea and lungs.

Garlic is more of a preventative than a cure, but it won't hurt anything. Used with Epsom salts may be better than either by itself.

Ok.
I won’t do any more massaging.
I will see if I can get Medistatin, otherwise I will try and use epsom salt.
Thanks so much!

 

[WaveyCreekChickens]

If you can find Epsom salts, mix one teaspoon in one ounce of warm water and syringe it into her beak and crop. Do it again in 12 to 24 hours.

Pry open her beak and slip the syringe into the right side of her mouth, slipping it between the side of her mouth and just beside and under the tongue. This will avoid the trachea located in the center of the throat behind the tongue. Get all the mixture into her.

It's not as effective, but you can mix a teaspoon of the E. salts into one cup warm water and let her drink it as she wishes. Mix a new batch tomorrow and continue it for a second day.

I really appreciate your help!

 

[WaveyCreekChickens]

I can’t get the Medistatin, so I will do the epsom salt syringing tonight.
Priscilla is walking around making a mess of the grit. I hope the movement gets some of the contents down, so there is room for that much more liquid.

 

[WaveyCreekChickens]

No epsom salt treatment tonight. Her crop is still full of liquid. She does drink the garlic water.
This bird is flying up to the kitchen counters!