Potential crop issue?? Please help!

[cackleberryandco]

My 10 week old Speckled Sussex has been having issues for about a week now, I am no expert but I am suspecting a crop problem? This day last week she had a huge lump on her chest, we kept her inside, no food for 72 hours, water w apple cider vinegar, then we started giving her a little grit and gradually it got better, and when it seemed completely empty we put her back in the coop with her sisters. This was yesterday afternoon. Today after work I came home and they were already in their sleeping places (it was 6:45 and pretty dark already, a cold night tonight as well) but I noticed she was standing outside of the nesting box, so I picked her up and she began to bubble at the mouth, and then she puked 4 times. I know chickens can't actually throw up, I am thinking it was just getting a bit backed up and began pouring out. It was yellowish-brown with some chunks of grass in it. I have her back inside now, I probably won't give her food again for a day or two. I have Monistat suppository that I heard I can give orally as a last resort, I would prefer to not do medicine unless I have to.

Does anyone have any idea what it could be and/or what to give her? Right now her crop seems smaller than it was before throwing it up, kinda feels hard, maybe like kneading raw dough. She has had some bad smells coming from her beak as well. For the past week or so she has been doing a gagging motion often as well as bubbling inside of her that I can hear.

She doesn't seem particularly lethargic or anything, she is moving a lot, very very talkative, cuddly and friendly, she does want to eat even though I won't let her.

Any advice would be great! She's my favorite in the flock and I hate to see her suffer

 

[azygous]

Reading my article on crop disorders might help you to figure out what may be going on. https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

It sounds like, from the description of the smell and the bits of grass that came up, impacted crop. If your hen has an addiction to eating grass, and if the grass hasn't been mowed, she may have some undigested material stuck in there.

It's good that she's still behaving normally, but unaddressed, a crop disorder can lead to starvation. Impacted crop is treated with oil and massage first, then with the miconazole cream to treat the yeast that has very likely colonized the stagnant crop.

 

[cackleberryandco]

Reading my article on crop disorders might help you to figure out what may be going on. https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

It sounds like, from the description of the smell and the bits of grass that came up, impacted crop. If your hen has an addiction to eating grass, and if the grass hasn't been mowed, she may have some undigested material stuck in there.

It's good that she's still behaving normally, but unaddressed, a crop disorder can lead to starvation. Impacted crop is treated with oil and massage first, then with the miconazole cream to treat the yeast that has very likely colonized the stagnant crop.

Thanks a billion.. I'll try a few more times with the oil and massage, and if nothing else works, I will go with the miconazole.