Did your vet do a fecal to check for worm eggs, coccidia, bacteria and yeast? Any of those can cause crop stasis.
-Kathy
-Kathy
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I would say get her on a good probiotic to help get things back in balance, especially if she is going to be on antibiotics as that kills all the good bacteria as well. No good bacteria in the stomach will prevent food from getting digested. I used this probiotic along with probiotics and electrolytes added to the water (chick saver) when mine had a sour crop and was passing undigested food and diarrhea after I treated the sour crop. Good luck!
edited to add: I do not know anything about Mareks...
Lots of water and no grains!
-Kathy
Did your vet do a fecal to check for worm eggs, coccidia, bacteria and yeast? Any of those can cause crop stasis.
-Kathy
I understand that cost is an issue, but the fecal is pretty cheap compared to what you already spent. Crops "impacted" with grain, not grass, are usually secondary to something else going on. The hard part is figuring out what that something else is... could be dehydration, heat stroke, cancer, worms, damage from worms, disease, intestinal obstruction, ascites, egg binding, etc.
Given your hot weather, it could just have been from the heat and her not drinking enough. I had one with a grain impacted crop when we hit 103 here and had to tube fluids to here for several days to get it to pass, but it finally did and she recovered 100%.
Call them and ask how much it would cost to have them check her poop for worm eggs, coccidia and yeast. My vet would charge about $50 for all of the tests, but many vets charge less.
Google capillary worms, they are the ones that worry me the most, and they are very hard to treat. What wormer do you use?
As for what to feed her... after issues with crops I always feed foods that are easy to digest, like eggs, crumbles, cooked rice, cooked pasta, but mostly crumbles. Since she isn't interested in the lay pellets, which I think are fine, try making a mash out of them, but make sure they don't go rancid.
If her poops look nice and solid and 100% normal there is probably no reason to check for bacteria and yeast.
-Kathy
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