Mushy crop + possible worm in drool?? Can i treat her for BOTH yeast and worms ASAP to be safe???

[RainbowHen]

Update: THANK YOU all, I think all these treatments worked!! I'll post a little info here, in case it helps anyone else in the future!


Day 1: super huge mushy crop, super wobbly/weak. gave 0 food, but unlimited access to water with ACV, garlic and oregano oil added to it. separated from flock. tried to get her to eat miconazole, unnsuccessful.

Day 2: crop still huge and mushy. Bought 3-day 4% monistat, gave her 1 day's worth of it (half in the morning, half at night). i could not get the force-feeding to work. after trying like 7 different ways/worms/foods to trick her into eating it, she finally ate it when i mixed the cream with red wiggler worms that i chopped in half before giving to her so that they were extra wiggly and extra coated in cream and she gobbled them up. I massaged her crop each time she ate the medicine, not sure if that helped, but i heard it did for some people. still no access to food.

Day 3: woke up with a noticeably smaller and harder crop!! but still not empty. gave 2nd dose of monistat, unlimited access to water with the same additives. gave her about half a scrambled egg.

Day 4: 3rd and final dose of monistat (half in morning, half at night). crop even smaller and less mushy. gave her 1 scrambled egg mixed with greek yogurt.

Day 5: woke up with a mostly empty crop!!! hallelujah!! she was starving but i didn't let her eat what she wanted, just gave her 2 scrambled eggs mixed with greek yogurt. i felt like there was still some mush in her crop, so i gave her some extra 2% zole cream with a worm.

Day 6: empty crop again in the morning!! still not giving her unlimited access to her normal grainy food, just 2 scrambled eggs mixed with greek yogurt. and a plain worm for being a good girl. YAYYYY


Worming: I gave all 4 girls Safeguard. I noticed one of them gaping at night on the chicken cam, keeping an eye on her. I'm going to do the stronger 5-day-in-a-row dosing of Safeguard, just to be safe. Tossing all eggs for 2 weeks.

Coop: Overhauled the coop and run, basically powerwashed the coop inside and out, raked out ALL poopy dirt, spread 2 huge bags of pine shavings on the floor of the run and inside the coop. 3 days later it was back to disgusting though, so i'm going to need some other changes. maybe a roof over the run? some kind of hard floor that is not the natural dirt ground? we'll see.

THANK YOU to all on this forum, and i hope this little diary helps you with your chickens in the future! Feel free to ask me anything about what worked and i'd be happy to share my experience!!

Good job mama!
That's wonderful news!