Possible Coccidiosis Case Please Help (EMERGENCY)

[RoyalChick]

It can help to massage the crop to break up whatever is causing it to block.
You need to do it very carefully if it is very full because you don't want it coming up the wrong way and causing her to aspirate.
If it was very full when you felt it earlier, I would wait until the morning to try massage. Hopefully the crop will be smaller then so the risk is less.
Meanwhile, look up the anatomy of the crop so you know what you are doing. You are wanting to break up any fibrous stuff like long grass so it needs a firm touch but not a big squeeze,
I have had to do this a few times to different chickens and I tended to do it very early in the morning and they actually liked it!

 

[SmiYa0126]

How is she doing? I had a hen that ate a bunch of straw, I alternated with nutri drench and watermelon to flush her out. It took me month to get her weight back up.

 

[azygous]

If she's been laying, perhaps she has a stuck egg. It never hurts to pop a calcium tablet into a suddenly lethagic hen.

Yellow poop can indicate reproductive issues and liver issues. A full crop can indicate egg binding as well as a crop issue. Treating for egg binding is a good first step.

 

[LhickenChicken]

How is she doing? I had a hen that ate a bunch of straw, I alternated with nutri drench and watermelon to flush her out. It took me month to get her weight back up.

she is doing fine but spending long periods of time standing there doing nothing.

 

[LhickenChicken]

If she's been laying, perhaps she has a stuck egg. It never hurts to pop a calcium tablet into a suddenly lethagic hen.

Yellow poop can indicate reproductive issues and liver issues. A full crop can indicate egg binding as well as a crop issue. Treating for egg binding is a good first step.

No she stopped laying the day after yesterday.

 

[LhickenChicken]

It can help to massage the crop to break up whatever is causing it to block.
You need to do it very carefully if it is very full because you don't want it coming up the wrong way and causing her to aspirate.
If it was very full when you felt it earlier, I would wait until the morning to try massage. Hopefully the crop will be smaller then so the risk is less.
Meanwhile, look up the anatomy of the crop so you know what you are doing. You are wanting to break up any fibrous stuff like long grass so it needs a firm touch but not a big squeeze,
I have had to do this a few times to different chickens and I tended to do it very early in the morning and they actually liked it!

I started by massaging very gently and when it started draining I did it a bit harder then after 1/2 hour then I gave her more coconut oil then massaged it again because she still had a bit of something there.

I don't have long grass here because it's winter time.

 

[RoyalChick]

I started by massaging very gently and when it started draining I did it a bit harder then after 1/2 hour then I gave her more coconut oil then massaged it again because she still had a bit of something there.

I don't have long grass here because it's winter time.

Do you have a calcium pill you can give her as @azygous suggested?
I use Calcium citrate from the women's health aisle in the pharmacy - but if you can't get access to that you can even use TUMs.
And please check her crop again first thing in the morning and let us know how it feels.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Do you have a calcium pill you can give her as @azygous suggested?
I use Calcium citrate from the women's health aisle in the pharmacy - but if you can't get access to that you can even use TUMs.
And please check her crop again first thing in the morning and let us know how it feels.

But the calcium citrate pills are so BIG! Won't she choke on them? She wouldn't eat big pieces of coconut oil that were smaller than the calcium citrate pills!

 

[RoyalChick]

But the calcium citrate pills are so BIG! Won't she choke on them? She wouldn't eat big pieces of coconut oil that were smaller than the calcium citrate pills!

You can break them in half. Post a picture of what you have - the ones I get (Citrical minis) are actually not that huge. But if I were to use a TUMs I would break it in half.
I have seen my chickens swallow mice and frogs whole - they can gulp down a lot!
I pop the pill in the side of their mouth and it just disappears down the hatch!

 

[LhickenChicken]

You can break them in half. Post a picture of what you have - the ones I get (Citrical minis) are actually not that huge. But if I were to use a TUMs I would break it in half.
I have seen my chickens swallow mice and frogs whole - they can gulp down a lot!
I pop the pill in the side of their mouth and it just disappears down the hatch!

okay good advice!
But she is back to her normal self, definitely not coccidiosis or egg binding.
It was just impacted crop. she is running around and actually complained when I picked her up (this morning she didn't do that.) Thank you so much. I just care that Mrs. Cleanegg feels better.