LysanderSpooner
Chirping
- Jul 4, 2022
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After a year I had my first instance of sour crop. I want to lay out what I did last month to help my girl survive. I'll be detailed because my wife and I struggled to find a good way to help her through as the information was all over the place. We read that there was no hope, and she is probably going to not make it to the other extreme of nbd, just starve her for a few days. We had a lot of trial and error with this, and here is my best attempt to convey what worked.
I just went through this and am two weeks out from the incident with my chick that is almost a year old. She was acting a little malaise and her crop was large, not larger than normal but very early in the day. The difference between normal and abnormal to me was that hers was extra squishy. So I quarantined her in a cage with small amount of water restricted food for two days and her crop went down. I put her back out and gave her grit just before. The crop was still a tiny squishy. Day later, same state. So now I have gotten counsel from a friend or two and my wife read that monistat 7 three times a day with a pill cut into thirds would help because it is essentially a yeast infection. Well, same routine, quarantine with minimal water, no food. This time I added fresh garlic (minced) to warm water and administered 1/3rd of a M7 pill for two days. I did have to hold her beak open to have her swallow it after the first time, I guess she didn't like the taste. On day two, I did what most here would say is dangerous and helped the sour crop out. I read up on how to do it. I did not want to, but she was seemingly making no progress. The instruction was to firmly (lovingly) hold the chicken turn so that the vent is up and hold the neck/head in a straight line down vertically NO MORE THAN TEN SECONDS and massage out liquid. I suggest doing this outside and saturating the contents in the area to clean it. I made sure she was doing fine after and no wheezing. She made a full recovery over the next two days with more M7 and garlic water, and we added Plain Greek yogurt for probiotic, regular food the third evening. I knew that she was ready to leave the quarantine when she busted out the fourth morning! Thanks for reading and I hope that this helps someone out there. I'd love to hear if anyone has tips or can confirm which of the methods maybe were the most effective.
tl;dr -
o Quarantine chicken
o Administer crop expelling procedure
o administer Monistat 7 1/3rd pill x3 daily
o Give garlic water
o feed plain Greek yogurt on day two evening
o show love routinely so that the chicken is not lonely and loses will to live
I just went through this and am two weeks out from the incident with my chick that is almost a year old. She was acting a little malaise and her crop was large, not larger than normal but very early in the day. The difference between normal and abnormal to me was that hers was extra squishy. So I quarantined her in a cage with small amount of water restricted food for two days and her crop went down. I put her back out and gave her grit just before. The crop was still a tiny squishy. Day later, same state. So now I have gotten counsel from a friend or two and my wife read that monistat 7 three times a day with a pill cut into thirds would help because it is essentially a yeast infection. Well, same routine, quarantine with minimal water, no food. This time I added fresh garlic (minced) to warm water and administered 1/3rd of a M7 pill for two days. I did have to hold her beak open to have her swallow it after the first time, I guess she didn't like the taste. On day two, I did what most here would say is dangerous and helped the sour crop out. I read up on how to do it. I did not want to, but she was seemingly making no progress. The instruction was to firmly (lovingly) hold the chicken turn so that the vent is up and hold the neck/head in a straight line down vertically NO MORE THAN TEN SECONDS and massage out liquid. I suggest doing this outside and saturating the contents in the area to clean it. I made sure she was doing fine after and no wheezing. She made a full recovery over the next two days with more M7 and garlic water, and we added Plain Greek yogurt for probiotic, regular food the third evening. I knew that she was ready to leave the quarantine when she busted out the fourth morning! Thanks for reading and I hope that this helps someone out there. I'd love to hear if anyone has tips or can confirm which of the methods maybe were the most effective.
tl;dr -
o Quarantine chicken
o Administer crop expelling procedure
o administer Monistat 7 1/3rd pill x3 daily
o Give garlic water
o feed plain Greek yogurt on day two evening
o show love routinely so that the chicken is not lonely and loses will to live
