Quick question re: Impacted crop surgery; what can i use to suture the crop??

[Serenity Sav]

Hi, I have a hen that I will be performing crop surgery on, she has an impacted crop and it's been close to 5 days now, have tried oil/enemas/flushing of the crop, still impacted and she's beginning to have fever, so have decided to go forward with crop surgery. I've been studying resources here and online, and I'm prepared to start, except for one aspect I'm not sure of.
I don't have any dissolving/absorbable sutures on hand, is there something else I can use in place of that to suture up the crop? Would super glue work or??

 

[casportpony]

What is it impacted with? Food or grass?

 

[Perris]

human hair was used in the past; might work if you can access a long enough piece, or twist some together.

 

[Ryguy3684]

Hi, I have a hen that I will be performing crop surgery on, she has an impacted crop and it's been close to 5 days now, have tried oil/enemas/flushing of the crop, still impacted and she's beginning to have fever, so have decided to go forward with crop surgery. I've been studying resources here and online, and I'm prepared to start, except for one aspect I'm not sure of.
I don't have any dissolving/absorbable sutures on hand, is there something else I can use in place of that to suture up the crop? Would super glue work or??

I'm currently researching the same thing. I'm giving my hen one more day of massages, which haven't worked yet. Most of the videos I've watched have used super glue. E.R. doctors/field medics use it all the time, so I don't see why it wouldn't work on a crop. Good luck to you. Hopefully I'll be posting good results as well.