Got back from the Stillwater vet. The guy who saw her is there filling in for a few wks at their Avian Clinic. He's an Avian Veterinarian teacher at Cornell-how cool is that? He said he's literally see thousands of chickens and does surgery on them on a regular basis. My little Faverolles pullet seems to have a wad of grass or straw (probably straw since it's in their pen) wadded up in her crop. He put her under and flushed out what he could but it was too big to pull up through her throat so she's scheduled for surgery Tues AM. I'm SO glad I didn't just do nothing and stuff grit and scratch down her til next week when the other vet wanted to see her back, she'd have probably died. The other vet did tell me he was at a loss though, I don't hold it against him. This Avian vet said it was at such an early stage that he could only barely smell anything once he'd pulled a bunch of gunk out of her crop. That's why the 1st vet couldn't find anything on his stains or under the microscope. He sent home antibiotics and some high calorie liquid food (that she loves). Some food is getting through her system because it's coming out the other end. Hopefully this high calorie liquid stuff will sustain her enough to keep her going til surgery, she's thin but not dangerously so at this point but surgery is 4 days away yet.
He was also telling the vet student what a wonderful breed Faverolles were and this was the perfect chicken breed for her introduction to chickens because they're so docile and easily handled
The little pullet just kept looking up at him and chirping like she was enamored with him lol
