Large crop help

[MightyMama]

I'm having an issue with one of my hens (13 weeks), and I'm hoping for clarification on what to do. Timeline of events:

Thursday - notice crop was a bit large.
Friday - sick hen pose, crop even larger by evening, drained crop
Saturday - drained crop morning and night, kept from food but given access to water midday, gave a bit of yogurt with probiotics
Sunday - crop was feeling good in the morning, but I still drained it to see if more would come out, and more did. Gave some yogurt and a bit of scrambled eggs with probiotics, poly-vi-sol, oyster shells. It was a small meal, but something more substantial than she had been having. Added ACV to water.
Monday - crop feels full of water in the morning, gave scrambled eggs with more probitics because I don't feel comfortable not giving her some sort of food for that long.

How long will this go on before I trust that she can be back to normal?

 

[azygous]

It can go on indefinitely unless you give her medicine to cure the yeast infection in her crop. Here is my article on identifying and treating crop disorders. https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/ She should start to feel better about 24 hours after you begin treatment with miconazole. Be sure to give two doses a day for the full seven days.

 

[MightyMama]

It doesn't smell yeast-y though. Tonight it was hard I couldn't get anything to come out. Despite that, she's acting more normal than she was a couple days ago...no puffy stance, no tucked in head. Active, curious, cleaning herself, socializing (I've kept her in the coop and rotate 2 other hens in and out through the day). Drinking fine. Her poops are now coming out as little pellets with mostly water, which I would assume is from eating very little.

I just read the article and wonder if I'm just making it worse preventing her from eating regularly...everything I kept reading said to keep her food limited....and the stupid chicken health handbook is not helpful at all. I hate that all this chicken stuff is about learning what to do after you messed it up the first time.

 

[MightyMama]

Okay...so it was empty this morning and I tried to let her go be a chicken. She still is happy, but now her crop is HUGE and is getting harder (like wet sand in a balloon). I've officially caged her in the garage. I tried to empty it and nothing will budge. I'm getting monistat when I get back from work tonight. Is my chicken going to live through this?

 

[MightyMama]

 

[MightyMama]

Normal? It's better than last night but her crop is still huge from earlier and she's making sick chicke pose again and I can't get her crop to empty for anything.