Soup crop - help - treatments?

[ECrow]

I have a 10 year old hen who started showing signs of soup crop yesterday. After looking up the symptoms I’m pretty confident that is what she has (full, squishy crop, “vomits” when I pick her up, wet droppings, low energy).
What is the best way to treat sour crop?
I was also wondering how to make her most comfortable. I brought her into my house and I’ve been keeping her in a cat carrier, but when I let her out to clean her bedding she stands and wiggles her head around oddly. I read somewhere that that’s her trying to realign her crop so the fluid doesn’t go down her esophagus. Is that true? Would it be better to keep her somewhere where she can stand up fully?
I haven’t seen her eat or drink much, but she has eaten a bit of chickweed clover leaves and seems interested in her food, but doesn’t seem to have the energy to try to eat it.
If you have any info you could share, please help.

 

[Eggcessive]

Crop disorders may be a result of another problem, especially in older hens who have reproductive disorders or cancer. Sometimes there is a bacterial infection from a long standing impacted crop, or there may be a fungal infection. A vet is probably the best, but she is near her last years. Antifungal powders or creams can sometimes help. Medistatin powder added to a little water is the same as human Nystatin. Here is a link for that:
https://www.budgetpetcare.com/medistatin-for-pigeons-and-caged-birds-pack-876.aspx
Some use Monistat or miconazole cream or suppositories given orally twice a day. Some use acidified copper sulfate carefully. Coconut oil chilled and cut into small pieces to be fed to the hen may help move contents along. Making them vomit can be dangerous and cause them to choke to death. I have never treated a chicken successfully for sour crop. One lasted 2 months and still died, and was emaciated just like the others. I would lean toward putting down an older chicken, but that is up to you. Here are a few articles that might be helpful:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

https://the-chicken-chick.com/chicken-anatomy-crop-impacted-crop-sour/

 

[RubelliteRose]

I successfully used this advice from azygous in a thread about impacted and sour crops last October.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/impacted-crop-advice.1338913/page-3

I suggest you start her on miconazole (twice a day for exactly seven days, no more, no less). The crop being soft and full of liquid sounds like yeast is colonizing now. Molasses will produce diarrhea or liquid poop, but you really do not want to feed the yeast, and molasses would do that. Stay away from sugars and carbs for now. Boiled egg or mackerel or dry crumbles would be better for her until the yeast is under control.

Do you have Poultry Nutri-drench? That is what you need to give her for energy for a few days.

Unless you see any actual grass in her stool, the green you see is likely bile from starving.

We initially thought she had an impacted crop and treated her for that. The coconut oil/Dulcolex did not completely clear up her crop issues, but the Walmart generic of Monistat 7 did. We kept her in a dog crate in the house for the first several days of impaction treatment. After we were sure she was able to eat/drink/poop, we returned her to the coop and continued the sour crop treatment there. Thankfully, she has had no crop issues since then.

 

[RubelliteRose]

I should add that Pidgey was only 18 months old. Hopefully, your girl will start feeling better soon, but I would recommend weighing her to make sure that she isn't losing too much weight.