Impacted/Sour Crop or Something else? It was impacted crop

[Karrie13]

I noticed one hen wasn’t acting herself last night but didn’t think anything of it. Well this morning when I went out to do chores, she was laying on the coop floor and not moving. I thought she was gone, but when I picked her up she opened her eyes. She is VERY lethargic and doesn’t seem to care what in the world you do with her.

She had some brownish water coming from her beak and her crop was VERY full and distended. I immediately thought impacted/sour crop. I didn’t notice any sour smell. I took her into the house and into the bathroom. I massaged her crop and kind of held her upside down. A lot of liquid came out and her crop went down in size but was still full. Seemed to have a lot of feed. I massaged her crop to help loosen what was there, put some oil down her throat, gave her some water with ACV, and left her in the darkened bathroom on a towel.

That is where she is now, I had to leave to go to work. I just hope she is still with us when I get home, she is one of my favorite hens and one of my only 2 FBCM girls.

Is there anything else that I can do for her? Does it sound like something other than impacted/sour crop?

Thank you for any help!

 

[bentmtnhen]

Good luck with your girl!!
I'm new to chicks (4 wk old babies), & have one with a swollen crop. I think he's my roo, I know he's a favorite. Have another whose crop seems big too, but not extra big. I've isolated them, & have only water available to them. I'm hoping for improvment before my kids go to bed tonight. A little nervous about the whole "not getting oil/water in their lungs" thing if I have to treat them.



3 crazy people, one awesome man, 13 baby birds, & little ol' me

 

[Karrie13]

I massaged her hard crop when I got home from work and again before bed. There was a lot of fluid in there again but she had pooped a watery, grainy, green poop twice so I thought things were going well.

Well she died during the night. I opened up her crop this morning and it was packed with hay and wood shavings. The wood shavings she ate from the coop and the hay she took from the horses round hay bale. It was a big ball of mess. There is no way she would have been able to pass it through her digestive system.

 

[bentmtnhen]

So sorry you lost her.
She knew you were trying to help.