Question about sour crop treatment

[Rhyara]

Thank you ❤

 

[Rhyara]

Gave her a small piece of yolk, she trilled a bunch and now she's rearranging the bedding, picking up and putting woodchips on herself... she's too young and physically stressed to lay an egg. I'm confused. Glad she's being more active, but confused.

Maybe she's trying to bathe? But she's not flapping at all...

Edit: She sat down and pulled the chips towards herself. I picked some up and put them all around her and she's trilling again. I have no idea whats happening but she's so cute... she's usually not such a trill monster.

 

[azygous]

That's nesting behavior. Check her pelvic knobs in each side of her vent. If you can fit two fingers between them, you could be seeing her first egg sometime today or tomorrow.

 

[Rhyara]

That's nesting behavior. Check her pelvic knobs in each side of her vent. If you can fit two fingers between them, you could be seeing her first egg sometime today or tomorrow.

That's so surprising and exciting!
She's only 5 months old, I thought cochins started laying later and she'd be the last not the first!
Her butt is rather poopy from the sour crop diarrhea, so I'll probably hold off on examining but I'll keep helping her nest and keep an eye out for an egg. When her poo solidifies a bit more we'll wash her up and check her then.

I gotta say I love her like this. So floofy and a trill machine ❤ I'm so relieved she has improved so much in just one day.

 

[azygous]

Five months is very young for POL in a Cochin, but yours may be precocious, defying the norm. The knobs are riding just above the top of the vent.

 

[Rhyara]

Five months is very young for POL in a Cochin, but yours may be precocious, defying the norm. The knobs are riding just above the top of the vent.

We decided to give her butt a bath, it got pretty messy down there. Some of it was granular chunks.

The knobs are just under an inch apart, definitely not two fingers yet wonder if she's just one of those sweet silly ladies that goes broody before even laying.

She did NOT take to the mouth filling method kept squirreling her head away despite our best efforts so unfortunately we'll keep with the slow messy method.

She hasn't been wanting to roost at all since we took her inside, is that normal or something to be concerned about?

 

[azygous]

I think you have a hen who hears a different drummer. But then she may be too weak from her recent bout of sour crop, and is not strong enough to jump up to the perch. Try placing her on it.

 

[Rhyara]

She kept jumping down from the roost and running to her nest, put the roost where her nest was and out her on it then she stayed.
She has jumped out of her enclosure when the lid was off so she has some energy again.

She has the energy to fight us a bit more with the treatments too. Got her to take a couple large squirts in her mouth.

Her crop is still rather full in the morning, is that normal a few days in? It's a lot less waterballoon-y and a little more like a sand filled bag with a bit of water. She isn't really having solid poops.
Should still I give her free access to grit? I feel like she's eating more than she needs, but she probably knows better.

 

[azygous]

It sounds like she's progressing. If this is only the beginning of the third day on treatment, it's good progress. It's normal for the crop to have a slushy, gritty feel this far along, and even some at the very end of the seven day coarse.

Yes, by all means make grit available. It's an important part of crop treatment. Also, eating is good. It helps to keep the crop action alive and moving. You have a very good little patient, even if she's feisty.

 

[Rhyara]

Bobbo update:
-She's pretty darn perky now. Jumped up on our shoulders after this morning's treatment.
-Her crop is still full, pretty hard too, but still malleable. Makes me a little concerned but she is making some solid poops now, there were a few under the roost we set her on.
-felt good enough to preen and desperately try to pick away at the new poop trail on her butt *barf* wiped a good amount of it off with wet paper towel, we'll give her another butt bath tonight, much easier as a team.

Just for fun
Pic of her nesting the other day buried in bedding. She was so happy lol