Hey everyone - this one is already diagnosed, but I am posting because this has me stumped and it took a vet to figure out what is going on.
I rescued some girls a while ago and one has always been a little poorly - thin, slow, sour crop problems, etc - but otherwise healthy. She was introduced to the flock after quarantine and has been doing well.
I noticed a strange mass (felt like a snack size chocolate bar with nuts ontop - strange I know) in her crop a little while ago and started treatment for an impacted crop even though her droppings were fine. I couldn’t think of what else it could be apart from cancer. It did not reduce in size at all so I took her to the vets.
They took a sample and checked the mass out - it was full of bacteria and inflammatory cells and the diagnosis was crop abscess. They told me it was caused from her eating something that pierced her crop wall and bacteria got in. Her body sealed it off (abscess) and she has been doing fine while it slowly grows. She is on oral antibiotics and the vet hopes that it will go on it’s own without surgery (it is fused to the crop wall and they are very hesitant to touch it at the moment). So far day 4 and it is half the size it use to be - yay!
I will update this post later on when I know more about whether or not the treatment works - hope this helps someone along the way.
I rescued some girls a while ago and one has always been a little poorly - thin, slow, sour crop problems, etc - but otherwise healthy. She was introduced to the flock after quarantine and has been doing well.
I noticed a strange mass (felt like a snack size chocolate bar with nuts ontop - strange I know) in her crop a little while ago and started treatment for an impacted crop even though her droppings were fine. I couldn’t think of what else it could be apart from cancer. It did not reduce in size at all so I took her to the vets.
They took a sample and checked the mass out - it was full of bacteria and inflammatory cells and the diagnosis was crop abscess. They told me it was caused from her eating something that pierced her crop wall and bacteria got in. Her body sealed it off (abscess) and she has been doing fine while it slowly grows. She is on oral antibiotics and the vet hopes that it will go on it’s own without surgery (it is fused to the crop wall and they are very hesitant to touch it at the moment). So far day 4 and it is half the size it use to be - yay!
I will update this post later on when I know more about whether or not the treatment works - hope this helps someone along the way.
Keep us posted on how she's doing.
