Please help

[FloridaChickMom]

I am a new chicken owner. 12 weeks. I have a 12 week Turken with large watery crop, white pasty poop and is getting weaker. Symptoms started this past Wednesday. We took her to an avian vet Friday. Vet lavaged crop...gave me some powdered formula and I have been tube feeding... adding olive oil and live cultured yogurt. It doesn't seem to be working. I don't want this cutie to suffer. She has moments of good energy, but prefers to stay in one place with feathers puffed out. Does anyone have other ideas?

 

[Eggcessive]

Most of the treatments for impacted crop are to give the olive oil the first day in a dropper, then massage, massage downward several times a day, giving nothing else but water. Second day give yogurt, keep massaging downward. Third day if having poops, start on soft foods only. Are you tube feeding some sort of powdered food, too?

 

[FloridaChickMom]

Thank you for your quick post! Yes, the doc gave me a powdered based formula for baby birds...I mix with water and olive oil to thin consistency. I just added the yogurt on my own. We wanted to make sure she was getting nutrition. She appears thin. When massaging down, I hear something like bubbles...is that normal and am I inflicting pain?

 

[FloridaChickMom]

Okay, I massaged Scruffy's very full crop this morning...downward and bubbles came up and it appeared Scruffy was tasting a regurgitation. So, I extracted some of the liquid from her crop with a soft-tip catheter feeding tube... mostly milky water, maybe a thin piece of something. Then I rinsed out the tube and fed her approximately 5 ml olive oil.

Question: should I give her more than 5 ml?

She has free access to clean water. Thank you Eggcessive for the "treatment regime". I have been reading many of the posts, but I didn't gleam that the first day should be only olive oil. I am fearing she may have a blockage further down than the crop, not sure.

We have 5 other happy healthy hens that Scruffy wants to rejoin.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would stop at 5ml of oil. Do not put vinegar in her water right now if you do so normally. There is a good article in Backyard Chickens this month about the subject. If you go to the search at the top of the page you can get tons of info from other people here on BYC that have tried different remedies. In the chicken yards chickens can get impacted on too long of grass, string, too big of a chuck of food, nail heads, you name it--so this is a common problem. Keep us posted on how she's doing.

 

[FloridaChickMom]

Thank you for your reply and good information...Scruffy died yesterday.

 

[Eggcessive]

So sorry to hear that. You did everything you could to help her.

 

[FloridaChickMom]

Hopefully we will be able to prevent this for the rest of our flock. I have been reading the threads for the different treatments and prevention of empacted crop since last week and was hoping her blockage would clearwith the interventions I chose. Unfortunately it did not. I knew Scruffy's condition was worsening and I was going to try anything to help the poor thing but did not want to see her suffer. I know we are talking about chickens, but it is quite sad.

 

[FloridaChickMom]

Thank you.