We are caring for a mother bantam and her 3 pullets whilst son is away. Mother bantam looked like she struggled to poo one evening. Next morning she kept drinking and wouldn’t stop. Her crop was like a puffy balloon.
We suspected sour crop and kept her segregated from food and water for 48+ hrs whilst massaging crop top to bottom. She had awful smelly diarrhoea throughout this time.
We introduced water with ACV and she would have kept drinking it had we not removed it after 20 sips. She was more perky but crop not better, though improved. I could feel grain such as wheat if I squeezed at the lower part. It is soft and squishy.
We gave her AVC water periodically which she would have kept drinking had we not removed.
Kept her overnight without food or water and this morning (almost 24 hrs after her first AVC drink post fasting) we have given her a teaspoon of scrambled egg with some natural unsweetened yoghurt mixed in. She tucked in but then only ate half. We also have given her periodic AVC drinks and always have to remove or she would keep drinking. She is more lively but still has diarrhoea and crop is as described… not right.
It is now 11am and this evening it will be 48 + hrs since we first noticed her behaving differently trying to poo. (We are UK so it will be approx 6am on east coast USA right now)
What do we do?
We suspected sour crop and kept her segregated from food and water for 48+ hrs whilst massaging crop top to bottom. She had awful smelly diarrhoea throughout this time.
We introduced water with ACV and she would have kept drinking it had we not removed it after 20 sips. She was more perky but crop not better, though improved. I could feel grain such as wheat if I squeezed at the lower part. It is soft and squishy.
We gave her AVC water periodically which she would have kept drinking had we not removed.
Kept her overnight without food or water and this morning (almost 24 hrs after her first AVC drink post fasting) we have given her a teaspoon of scrambled egg with some natural unsweetened yoghurt mixed in. She tucked in but then only ate half. We also have given her periodic AVC drinks and always have to remove or she would keep drinking. She is more lively but still has diarrhoea and crop is as described… not right.
It is now 11am and this evening it will be 48 + hrs since we first noticed her behaving differently trying to poo. (We are UK so it will be approx 6am on east coast USA right now)
What do we do?
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