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nikirushka said:
It's not something I like doing, very risky. But she hadn't been emptying for a little while and I didn't want her to go full sour crop if possible - plus taking all that fluid out got everything closer together so hopefully the grit can do its job better/faster.

The ACV is still diluted - I've got a jug in the fridge with water with 20ml/L ACV. vets unfortunately isn't an option as I just can't afford it right now - self employed, work very slow at the minute - so I've just got to keep on hoping! She's had some more grit-bread today and has wolfed that down, so hopefully that will be grinding up that straw nicely.
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I have not read the whole thread, but gather you are dealing with an impacted crop(?)
Bread can be binding, so I would stop that. Let her have plenty of water, see if she will eat a little coconut oil and massage the crop several times a day, try to get whatever mass is in there broken up. You can also use stool softener like Dulcolax to see if that will help break it up.
Grit helps the gizzard grind up foods, but giving it after you have a crop problem will not necessarily work, so if she has grit already in the crop, then she has enough, so I would take that away too.

Here's a couple of articles that you may find helpful - one is a snapshot of how to treat different crop issues, while the other is very detailed - I recommend that you read each one through. I hope she gets better soon.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/
http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/impacted-slow-and-sour-crops-prevention-and-treatments
 
Sorry, I missed that you'd replied! It's a blockage with straw. I have been massaging, and she's had oil and liquid paraffin to no avail. She didn't have grit in there already - she wasn't taken any in and I couldn't feel any, so I figured I should get some in there to start breaking down the straw and bread was the easiest way as she was wolfing it down. I could squish a few bits into the middle of a small piece of bread.

And it's working! Most of the straw is gone now, just a few soft strands left and her crop is emptying nicely too. So no more bread as of two days ago, and I think I'll be able to let her out tomorrow or Friday (just got a few strands of straw left to clear up before I do, just to be on the safe side).
 
Thanks, that's my boy Linc :)

I am still not winning here. In the end the straw congealed into a blob but moved away from the crop exit, so she was able to eat and drink normally. Brilliant.

Until it then moved all at once, left the crop, and stopped on the other side! Back to square one, near enough. Her crop can't empty properly so it's as big as it was to start with, and this thing won't shift. I've done two more doses of paraffin (after a decent gap from the first two to let her recover) and nothing, and I daren't do more of that. No point anyway, with it not working.

She's still active and eating but fed up, poor girl. It's hard for her to move well with this enormous thing hanging down. Any ideas?
 
Not pendulous proper, just not emptying so it's enormous. For her sake I may have to empty it again today. It's just blocked where the straw has moved out of the crop but then gone no further.

The liquid paraffin I'm using is exactly that - 100% liquid paraffin.
 
Ok, I was wrong - the straw hasn't left the crop at all. The damned stuff is still in there, somehow I just couldn't feel it last time I checked. But the doughball that formed before has moved so maybe it's still that that's blocking things, or a bit of the straw is in the exit as it was before. I don't know.

I've started her on dulcoease anyway as per the article, thanks. If that doesn't work I'll try the recipe further down.
 
Still not winning. The straw is sitting in the exit to her crop and won't budge either way. I can feel enough to feel where it is now but I can't seem to manipulate it out of the way. She's losing weight and although some has emptied overnight, not much.

Epsom salts laxative today and that's the last ditch effort - if that doesn't shift it I'll have to call it a day before she really goes downhill.
 

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