Impacted crop

[casportpony]

Quote: Get the tube and syringe and I'll teach you. You wont's have to tube any fluids to anyone, but I will teach you how to insert it.

-Kathy

 

[osbmail]

Thanks to everybody that has contributed to this thread or any impacted crop threads I think my bird going to make it.If so I will have fixed both sour and impacted crops thanks to everybody on this forum.

 

[purplesquirrel]

Hoorah! Yes I have also saved a hen who developed it quite badly, all due to the support on he his page

 

[WallaceFarms]

Is it normal for a chicken with an impacted crop to poop normal droppings and still be laying?

 

[purplesquirrel]

A chicken with an impacted crop will not be passing much if any poo.
It is a blockage of the crop, and seeing as their digestive system is about 15 minutes long, if nothing is getting through, nothing is coming out either.
The hen may still lay for the first day or so, but will quickly go down hill and will probably stop.

The hen will be lethargic, often hunched over with shoulders high up (like a child in a bad mood) staring, looking vacant, not responding quickly to being touched/pecked by the others, and will often go to one corner standing still and generally looking really sad and depressed.

They often don't try to drink and definitely won't be eating - as its look constupation of the stomach.

It's important to notice and respond immediately. You will notice them getting worse in a couple of hours, they can be dead in 12-24hours of you noticing, sometimes even less if you don't watch them daily to check everyone seems alright.

Take the hen inside, in a warm, quiet place supply a bowl of warming water, you must encourage her to drink - even if this is just drips at a time.


Dehydration is the biggest and quickest killer!!

 

[eggzntoast]

Ok I'm like 3 months new to chickens. Just making sure i understand what a crop is. I call it the gizzard or the pouch in their throat. Pretty much the place where the food is broken up by the pebbles right? Sorry if i sound stupid. I'm just trying to learn.

 

[eggzntoast]

Plus i have 70 chickens and 8 ducks so far. The Cornish are the only ones that have large gizzards after eating. Only had 3 chicks die but that was due to other chickens suffocating them. So i feel I'm doing pretty good for a first timer and jumping into something i knew nothing about.