After I got everything out of her crop I fed her Greek yogurt AND mixed lots of olive oil in it, figured if anything was left in there it would help her pass it.
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Your bird didn't have an impaction, yours had a slow or sour crop. These types you can vomit the liquids out. Impactions do not come out this way.I didn't read all the posts maybe someone else mention force puking.
I had a EEgr with a bound crop, hers was soft though, and HUGE. I thought she was just growing faster than the others. When I realized something was wrong I picked her up and she pucked a little, gross. I Googled her symptoms and read a article by the chicken chick on puking a chicken. I held her upside down and gently massaged and forced out some puke and let her up for air. Repeated untill it was harder and used a little more force, figured it was going to die anyway if I didn't get the blockage out, she was full of hay and food. At one point I think she did die, had a wad of hay that took awhile to gently pull out of her throat and mouth, she did the death flop, performed chicken cpr and she came back. There was probably a softball size pile of hay and gook that came out of her crop. Isolated her and fed her only Greek yogurt and water for a couple days. She lived! Her sagy stretched out crop went back to normal and she now is laying nice green spotted eggs. Don't know if this will help, but if your out of options maybe it's worth a try?
Your bird didn't have an impaction, yours had a slow or sour crop. These types you can vomit the liquids out. Impactions do not come out this way.
Quote: X2 I had a BA with all kinds of slow and sour crop issues all her life. She wore a crop bra during these times with issues to keep the crop from stretching out too far. Once the crop gets too stretched they get pendulous.
X2 I had a BA with all kinds of slow and sour crop issues all her life. She wore a crop bra during these times with issues to keep the crop from stretching out too far. Once the crop gets too stretched they get pendulous.
Tubing is very easy, and no need to put a a little water in first to make sure it's in the "right hole", 'cause it's almost impossible to put a large tube in the wrong hole, plus one can feel the tube as i goes down the esophagus. However, it is important to have the tube as far down as it will go, and in the case of an impaction, that's means the tube needs will probably go to the impaction, but not into the crop. Make sense?Tubing sounds like a good idea, I never got to the point where I needed to do it.
Just keep massaging all the time, tubing sounds pretty simple, just put a little bit of water in first, tiny tiny, just to make sure it's in hone right hole..
Good luck, be positive!
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Quote: Sorry you have had so much trouble with your Orps crops. So far I have only seen it in one of my Orps. Lots of things are genetic and crops are no different. I keep the crop bra handy all the time as once they get too stretched out and go pendulous they can quit on the bird. I believe it was a feed issue with my hen and switched her over to FF and or plain ground grains. She never had an issue after the switched and went 1 1/2 years crop problem free after this. Where as before it was a monthly event with her and the slow and sour crop.