PLEASE HELP ME! She's wheezing, her crop looks weird and her breath is horrible!! Will I loose my fa

[TwoCrows]

Don't let her sleep until you give her water. Water is going to help break the impaction down, along with massages.

 

[Mountain Peeps]

Ok...no food for 24 hours.

Water only. Get an empty syringe, no needle and suck the entire thing with water. 3 to 5 cc's Go sit on a bench with her beside you. With one hand, pry open the beak and the other hand, slowly squeeze in TINY amounts of water on the middle of her tongue. Keep her head level. Not down, and not up, but level. Take your time and squeeze this all in slowly, even if it takes 5 mins. You don't want to squeeze fast or it can go into the breathing holes. Once you get this in, massage the hard ball for about 3 to 5 mins.

Repeat this every hour. No food at all until this ball is gone. Keep giving her water all day and keep massaging to break down the impaction.

Oh wow! Thank you two crows!!!! So helpful! My brother and I are going to do that now. Wish us luck!

Should i keep her inside?

 

[TwoCrows]

You can keep her anywhere you like. Just don't let her eat anything.

 

[Cyan Night]

Hope she gets well soon. I've heard that making them vomit can kill them, if done incorrectly/too much/too long, so that kind of concerns me. I don't think I could ever do it. But, it does sound like an impacted crop turned to sour crop, so ACV would probably be a bad thing. I'd keep her on liquids with maybe a bit of baking powder and keep massaging her crop.

 

[Mountain Peeps]

You can keep her anywhere you like. Just don't let her eat anything.

Ok. We got it all ready. Is it ok that it's warm water?

 

[Mountain Peeps]

Hope she gets well soon. I've heard that making them vomit can kill them, if done incorrectly/too much/too long, so that kind of concerns me. I don't think I could ever do it. But, it does sound like an impacted crop turned to sour crop, so ACV would probably be a bad thing. I'd keep her on liquids with maybe a bit of baking powder and keep massaging her crop.

THANK YOU!!!!

 

[TwoCrows]

As long as it is not hot, warm is fine. Go do these things and come back and report it.

Keep doing this all day long and she should start pooping pretty soon. Hopefully we can get the size of the ball down by morning. There are things you can give her to help break this ball down, but lets see if water works first.

Keep us posted!

 

[Mountain Peeps]

As long as it is not hot, warm is fine. Go do these things and come back and report it.

Keep doing this all day long and she should start pooping pretty soon. Hopefully we can get the size of the ball down by morning. There are things you can give her to help break this ball down, but lets see if water works first.

Keep us posted!

GREAT NEWS!!!! She drank and her bulge has already gone down!! She didn't drink much but at least she got some in. Here's some pic updates.

 

[Mountain Peeps]

She now is shaking her head like she is trying to break something up. Her bulge is on her far right and there is nothing but feathers on her left.

 

[TwoCrows]

The crop should be on the right side of her breast and not on the left side. Just feathers on the left.

Sounds like she became impacted and kept eating and it was coming up the pipe, she was shaking it all over herself and stuck to her beak, some might have been inhaled, hence the wheezing.

Keep up with the water, as much water as you can get into her each hour. Keep massaging and no food today.

Crops really need to be checked in the mornings only, unless you know a bird has a problem, because they can be full and funky all day long. So once we get this cleared up, keep feeling her crop each morning for a while. Never hurts to check the entire flock. I check all my birds crop each morning every day. (I have a hen that is prone to slow and sour crops. So since I check hers, everybody gets their crops fondled each morning. )