Peachyfrog
In the Brooder
- Jul 16, 2020
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I have a 4.5 year old ISA brown hen who has had poop in her feathers for the last few days and was kind of slow walking around. I had daily been cleaning her butt to ensure she wasn't blocked (never was, just messy outside). Today she's now standing and dozing, not really walking around a lot. When I picked her up she didn't even fight me like usual and I must have touched her crop or something as she threw up what looked like water when I put her down. It didn't have any smell to it, so not sour crop. I picked her up again and feels like maybe a small golf ball or smaller size lump around her neck and a little below that it just feels very squishy like a lot of liquid, so I'm guessing impacted crop. I massaged the lump some in case that's what it is. I've brought her inside to keep a close eye on her and she's mostly just sleeping. She's recently drank a good bit of water and now she's like angling her head and making kind of faint gurgling sound like she might throw up the water again. Her poop was pretty solid/normal looking a few days ago with the messy but, though today now it's just like liquid (guessing no food getting through her given her other symptoms). I've put bread soaked in olive oil in with her (no other food) but she doesn't seem interested.
Thoughts on if this is indeed impacted crop and if so anything else I should try other than keep massaging her crop a few times a day and hope she eats the olive oil bread? Syringe with a little olive oil? Anything else? Or with the poop on the butt and lethargy is this maybe something different and there's something else I should try??
Here's a link to a video of what she's doing after drinking (as I can't seem to attach it) - https://1drv.ms/v/s!Av1-Hn0lYyHskLU4z5G2skABYDZ7ng?e=aZjhOI
Thoughts on if this is indeed impacted crop and if so anything else I should try other than keep massaging her crop a few times a day and hope she eats the olive oil bread? Syringe with a little olive oil? Anything else? Or with the poop on the butt and lethargy is this maybe something different and there's something else I should try??
Here's a link to a video of what she's doing after drinking (as I can't seem to attach it) - https://1drv.ms/v/s!Av1-Hn0lYyHskLU4z5G2skABYDZ7ng?e=aZjhOI
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