Please Help~impacted gizzard?

[IServd]

I'm glad she's doing a little better.

Do you provide Grit (Crushed Granite) for your chick(en)s?
Sounds like she was partially impacted with grass since she's finally expelling some.

I do supply grit and they free range so I was thinking it could have been anything she found and ate. I believe she had a severe impaction~ Her crop would just fill back up with fluid after I emptied it. She had water diarrhea and would only drink water.. it would just come back out her mouth when I lifted her… she hadn’t eaten for 6 days and her crate started to smell like a brewery even after treating her with monostat… I believe things started to turn around when I gave her an epsom salt flush, tomato juice, olive oil, and started her on antibiotics.. she is still pooping what looks like green grass clippings but at least she is pooping and eating now. I didnt put a crop bra on her tonight because I want to see if her crop will empty on its own. I am thankful she is doing better but I dont think she is out of the woods yet…

 

[dawg53]

It would be best not to give her Epsom Salt no more, stop the antibiotics and just continue with the tomato juice. Give her about 10ml twice a day using a syringe without a needle.

Cradle her in your forearm and pull down on her wattles and her mouth will open. Use your free hand to administer the tomato juice orally. Only give her 1/4ml at a time until the syringe is empty.
This is important: Make sure you release her wattles immediately after shooting the liquid in her mouth. If you dont quickly release the wattles, the liquid can go down her trachea and she could aspirate. Then there would be big problems.
Continue to do this until she is eating on her own and when her poop is back to normal without seeing grass or anything else out of the ordinary. It shouldnt take long to get her crop/gizzard cleared out and back to normal.

 

[IServd]

️Update ️
My girl went out this morning to join the flock~ she is doing great! It was a long learning road for the both of us but I have to say after treating her for sour crop the tomato juice worked perfectly to clear out her gizzard of the impaction... Thank you to those who chimed in!! We are back to normal until the next time
All my other 50 chickens are doing well

 

[Ry123]

Hi I'm dealing with the same problem. After the epsom salt flush did you seperate her with no food or did you leave a dish of feed for her?

 

[LoveChickens27]

Maybe you could try giving her plain yogurt, for extra help, that helped my chicken with sour crop. Please us more updates, I will be praying for you, because it is hard to lose a chicken, I have lost 7.

 

[IServd]

Hi I'm dealing with the same problem. After the epsom salt flush did you seperate her with no food or did you leave a dish of feed for her?

Hi there, I am so sorry you are going through this. I gave her watered down chick feed in her crate~she would drink the water off the top and eat the wet feed. Take the food out at night and feel her crop in the morning. I did this until she was pooping normally and her crop was empty in the morning.then she went out with the flock.

 

[Ry123]

Hi there, I am so sorry you are going through this. I gave her watered down chick feed in her crate~she would drink the water off the top and eat the wet feed. Take the food out at night and feel her crop in the morning. I did this until she was pooping normally and her crop was empty in the morning.then she went out with the flock.

Okay thank you for the help!

 

[catballou]

Okay thank you for the help!

I too am going thru a crop issue with my favorite hen. She has waterbelly, which I drain as needed, but she has had a lot of fluid in her crop. She vomits brown liquid when I pick her up out of the dog crate.
Green and white runny watery poop for a week, but last night she ate some wet chick starter with some recovery 911 mixed in. This morning the poops were still runny but were chick starter color. She sits up or stands in her crate and is totally aware of her surroundings.
After reading these posts, I'm going to give her the tomatoe juice this afternoon. Not sure if I should do the Epsom salts thing.
That is my question.

 

[Ry123]

I too am going thru a crop issue with my favorite hen. She has waterbelly, which I drain as needed, but she has had a lot of fluid in her crop. She vomits brown liquid when I pick her up out of the dog crate.
Green and white runny watery poop for a week, but last night she ate some wet chick starter with some recovery 911 mixed in. This morning the poops were still runny but were chick starter color. She sits up or stands in her crate and is totally aware of her surroundings.
After reading these posts, I'm going to give her the tomatoe juice this afternoon. Not sure if I should do the Epsom salts thing.
That is my question.

I did the epsom salt thing just in case but only gave 15ml

 

[catballou]

I'll do thatr this afternoon. I have a MRI at 2 pm.

I did the epsom salt thing just in case but only gave 15ml