Need help with crop/ from sweden

[Madde]

Hey!
I'm from Sweden so my English may not be very good but I feel desperate and this forum is so competent and much better than the Swedish forums that exist.

I have a 1 year old hen who has had a sour crop or impacted crop since Monday and has lived with us for rehabilitation, we give her paraffin oil and she only gets soft food (soaked pellets) and cottage cheese, chopped corn, scrambled eggs etc.

today her crop is much smaller (it has not been very big but it has felt spongy and not emptied during the night)
but it's saturday today and it's taken so long, i'm getting more and more worried, and every morning i have to feel her crop i'm so nervous and just want it to be empty. but it has decreased every day and today it was very small.

I mostly just want advice or if there is someone with experience of this who can give me hope that it can take time.
and right, we massage her crop several times a day.

her stool is watering with dissolved pellets in, and then the corn comes out whole ..
she even poops some blood sometimes ..
but her general condition is only getting better and better, she is alert and is herself more with each passing day.

hope someone can give me advice or tips or whatever, I love my sweet Ingalill so much.

 

[Perris]

hello @Madde - welcome to BYC

I will call on some of the experts here to see if they can offer you some advice
@Wyorp Rock @azygous @aart @Eggcessive

 

[Madde]

hello @Madde - welcome to BYC

I will call on some of the experts here to see if they can offer you some advice
@Wyorp Rock @azygous @aart @Eggcessive

Hi, and thank you so much!!

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Hey!
I'm from Sweden so my English may not be very good but I feel desperate and this forum is so competent and much better than the Swedish forums that exist.

I have a 1 year old hen who has had a sour crop or impacted crop since Monday and has lived with us for rehabilitation, we give her paraffin oil and she only gets soft food (soaked pellets) and cottage cheese, chopped corn, scrambled eggs etc.

today her crop is much smaller (it has not been very big but it has felt spongy and not emptied during the night)
but it's saturday today and it's taken so long, i'm getting more and more worried, and every morning i have to feel her crop i'm so nervous and just want it to be empty. but it has decreased every day and today it was very small.

I mostly just want advice or if there is someone with experience of this who can give me hope that it can take time.
and right, we massage her crop several times a day.

her stool is watering with dissolved pellets in, and then the corn comes out whole ..
she even poops some blood sometimes ..
but her general condition is only getting better and better, she is alert and is herself more with each passing day.
View attachment 2271777hope someone can give me advice or tips or whatever, I love my sweet Ingalill so much.

Your English is totally fine!
I am no expert, but it sounds like she is getting better.
@Eggcessive @azygous @oldhenlikesdogs

 

[azygous]

No problem with your English. You have a much better handle on it and are able to express yourself very well, much better than a lot of Americans that have supposedly learned English since birth.

The corn coming out whole in the stool may be a sign of not enough grit in the gizzard. That is where most of the digestion of food takes place in a chicken. If the gizzard slows down, it can affect the crop emptying. If the crop contents sit too long, they ferment, causing a yeast condition and sour crop.

Grit is small sharp edged gravel that chickens pick up off the ground and swallow. Do your chickens have access to anything like that? It should be around half a centimeter in diameter, give or take. In the US we can buy sacks of it from a feed store.

Giving this chicken grit should help her crop empty the rest of the way. If not, continue the parafin. You could also add a teaspoon of molasses to her food or water. That can help stimulate the gizzard to digest and push out the rest of contents. With that, the crop should then empty.

 

[aart]

If not, continue the parafin.

Paraffin in lieu of coconut oil?

 

[azygous]

I think parafin is a European generic term for cooking oil. But I do prefer coconut oil.

 

[aart]

I think parafin is a European generic term for cooking oil.

I hope so.

 

[Madde]

I think parafin is a European generic term for cooking oil. But I do prefer coconut oil.

no I use paraffin oil because I have been recommended by a girl not to use olive oil because it affects the liver.

 

[BDutch]

Hi Madde, welcome to BYC.
Don’t worry about you're chicken. It seems to go in the right direction.

I always give grit mix in a separate bowl (smal sharp stones + oyster shells) and never had a crop problem with any of my chickens.

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