PopeyesMom
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- Jun 28, 2020
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I have a long story but RIGHT NOW I have a very sick chicken battling what I think to be SOUR CROP please help
I will keep it to the pertinent details.
1. i got a flock of 10 “laying” 6 month old birds from a guy off Craigslist, bad idea, now I know...this man was not a bird man. He culled Sickens in me. I am new to chickens, this is my first flock. They have a beautiful coop.
2. They arrived to me ill. Shaking heads, sneezes, rattled breathing. I took some to the vet. The vet said “they are fine”....they aren’t. They most assuredly have Mycoplasma Gallesepticum
3. I started treating them with Denagard, they got better....for about 2 months. All the symptoms have returned, even worse.
4. One week ago I noticed a bulge on the right breast of Queen, I read up about a full crop and checked in the morning and it seemed fine....yesterday I notice it is not fine SHE IS ILL
Not eating/drinking or acting like a chicken. Weak
her crop is squishy- i assisted her in emptying it and water was expelled. I separated her and looked up a sour crop protocol, which suggests first day no food only probiotics and garlic water, then move into yogurt once the crop is empty.
her crop is still squishy despite syringing her only garlic probiotic water. She is faint in spirit and having trouble breathing out of her nose.
I’ve read here that there is another method of trying to breakdown the “squishy crop” with lemon cinnamon cayenne etc and I will start trying that... I really don’t want to lose her! ANY IDEAS?
Perhaps the Denagard caused the digestive imbalance?
this is my main emergent problem, but all the other chickens have respitory issues right now AND I have an egg eater (I have wooden decoy eggs in place that are helping,but the culprit chicken is hell bent on cracking the eggs!
THANK YOU
I will keep it to the pertinent details.
1. i got a flock of 10 “laying” 6 month old birds from a guy off Craigslist, bad idea, now I know...this man was not a bird man. He culled Sickens in me. I am new to chickens, this is my first flock. They have a beautiful coop.
2. They arrived to me ill. Shaking heads, sneezes, rattled breathing. I took some to the vet. The vet said “they are fine”....they aren’t. They most assuredly have Mycoplasma Gallesepticum
3. I started treating them with Denagard, they got better....for about 2 months. All the symptoms have returned, even worse.
4. One week ago I noticed a bulge on the right breast of Queen, I read up about a full crop and checked in the morning and it seemed fine....yesterday I notice it is not fine SHE IS ILL
Not eating/drinking or acting like a chicken. Weak
her crop is squishy- i assisted her in emptying it and water was expelled. I separated her and looked up a sour crop protocol, which suggests first day no food only probiotics and garlic water, then move into yogurt once the crop is empty.
her crop is still squishy despite syringing her only garlic probiotic water. She is faint in spirit and having trouble breathing out of her nose.
I’ve read here that there is another method of trying to breakdown the “squishy crop” with lemon cinnamon cayenne etc and I will start trying that... I really don’t want to lose her! ANY IDEAS?
Perhaps the Denagard caused the digestive imbalance?
this is my main emergent problem, but all the other chickens have respitory issues right now AND I have an egg eater (I have wooden decoy eggs in place that are helping,but the culprit chicken is hell bent on cracking the eggs!
THANK YOU
