Stephanie8806
Songster
Hey there. I have a 8ish month old RIR that has impacted crop. Large, bulbous, I don’t think it’s pendulous yet. This is day 2, maybe three of her being like this. I noticed it yesterday(Monday), and today(Tuesday) it looked a little worse…. He swollen area was even across the front of her breasts, as opposed to more to one side like the day before. I’m assuming she ate a long piece of dried grass and it got lodged… we have a lot of cheat grass and similar stuff out here and when it dries out it’s like straw. The chickens normally don’t bother with it though.
She has an appetite and was eating pellet feed and foraging. Also drinking water, eating snow, and I saw her poop twice. She stayed closer to or inside the run today, closer than the rest of the flock during free ranging. This isn’t necessarily odd for her though, as she’s one of my least adventurous chickens. She seems to be acting normally, and her body language seems normal.
I want to help her if you can. I’m certainly not comfortable with doing home surgery. Ive read quarantining her in the house for a day or two, withholding food, providing water, and massaging the crop several times a day can help them pass whatever mass is blocking them up. Does that actually work?
I don’t want her to suffer, that’s for sure. If we can’t help her, my inclination is to butcher her so she doesn’t slowly become malnourished and die. My understanding is that this is generally what happens if impacted crop is left untreated…
I don’t know… who here has had success clearing an impacted crop, non surgically?!
She has an appetite and was eating pellet feed and foraging. Also drinking water, eating snow, and I saw her poop twice. She stayed closer to or inside the run today, closer than the rest of the flock during free ranging. This isn’t necessarily odd for her though, as she’s one of my least adventurous chickens. She seems to be acting normally, and her body language seems normal.
I want to help her if you can. I’m certainly not comfortable with doing home surgery. Ive read quarantining her in the house for a day or two, withholding food, providing water, and massaging the crop several times a day can help them pass whatever mass is blocking them up. Does that actually work?
I don’t want her to suffer, that’s for sure. If we can’t help her, my inclination is to butcher her so she doesn’t slowly become malnourished and die. My understanding is that this is generally what happens if impacted crop is left untreated…
I don’t know… who here has had success clearing an impacted crop, non surgically?!