Keel Trouble/Impacted Crop

[servpolice]

X2 atleast she made it hopefully now she will recover

 

[Miss Lydia]

Any update this afternoon?

 

[Dwen]

I Brought her home today from the vet, along with an arsenal of syringes, antibiotic, prozyme, and bandages. Her neck is warm and tender by her incision, and she has to wear a bandage to keep her enlarged crop in place while it heals. She looks a lot better though, and the vets reported an "increase of feistiness".
Now the challenge for me is to coax feed through the microscopic tube to her stomach, and help her eat little bits of straight food without it collecting in the crop. At the Dr's suggestion, I opted to bypass the special $20 a meal feed in favor of grinding and soaking up my own flock raiser. It was still stopping up the syringe faster a rune through the coffee grinder. I'll have to try the blendtec next. I have to feed 60 ml 4x a day, antibiotic every eight hours, and that prozyme stuff every eight too. We'll go back to Dr Powers on Monday to make sure everything is going ok.

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A good view of the tubing behind her neck

 

[Dwen]

Update,
The blendtec on smoothie cycle did an awesome job with the feed. No obstructions in the syringe this time, and it was comfortably warmed up by the process.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Update,
The blendtec on smoothie cycle did an awesome job with the feed. No obstructions in the syringe this time, and it was comfortably warmed up by the process.

Aww bless her heart, sounds like your doing an awesome job, Hope it goes real good and she continues to heal and get back to normal. How is she doing with the tube feeding? does she fight you at all? the vid you posted doesn't work.Do you have to put the tubing down at each feeding or is it in there till she can eat on her own. although don't see how she could eat on her own with a tube down her throat.

 

[Dwen]

It's not connected through her throat. It's in the back of her neck, but disappears behind the bandage. I was expecting it to be through the mouth too, but I guess that's not most efficient. She hasn't objected yet to tube feeding. Once she settles down on my lap and starts playing with my coat zippers I do almost anything to her.

The most important things to watch now are that her crop doesn't refill, and the irritation on her incision goes away.

 

[Miss Lydia]

It's not connected through her throat. It's in the back of her neck, but disappears behind the bandage. I was expecting it to be through the mouth too, but I guess that's not most efficient. She hasn't objected yet to tube feeding. Once she settles down on my lap and starts playing with my coat zippers I do almost anything to her.

The most important things to watch now are that her crop doesn't refill, and the irritation on her incision goes away.

That's great the way they did that sure helps when feeding, so glad she is so compliant and such a good girl. Hoping all goes well.

 

[servpolice]

And now we will have to wait till it is healed.

 

[Dwen]

She passed away last night. I don't know how or why, I just know that she had become lethargic and very sleepy since Sunday. We we're suppose to get the stitches removed at the vets this morning, just a normal check up, but yesterday she became increasingly weaker until finally, she couldn't tuck her wings or even hold her beak up. Maybe it was amyloidosis after all.

 

[Miss Lydia]

She passed away last night. I don't know how or why, I just know that she had become lethargic and very sleepy since Sunday. We we're suppose to get the stitches removed at the vets this morning, just a normal check up, but yesterday she became increasingly weaker until finally, she couldn't tuck her wings or even hold her beak up. Maybe it was amyloidosis after all.

I'm so sorry to hear this, you did all you could.