Sour crop and treatment?

[KranK]

Whatever corn is in the pellets I would not worry about, it has been processes/ground up finely I just would not give her scratch/corn.

Try to take photos of poop each day, I know that can be a challenge.
You could withhold food for another day and see if that helps. Or take out food earlier in the day to give more time to see what happens overnight.

I may post a photo of pellets later too

 

[KranK]

I understand you are wanting to treat the yeast - the crop is sour because it's not emptying - therefore the food is "fermenting" in the crop and digestive system.

Nystatin as linked and discussed previously is given 2X a day for 7 days.

I would continue with the treatment, but it's up to you whether to let her out or not. She's got some reproductive problems - the photo of that wrapped up egg membrane/lash egg material indicates that. For me, I let my birds with the others unless I just have to isolate them for a short period of time, but I do continue with treatment.

She'd eat a lot of wheat probably when with other hens :/ if nothing helps i'll probably let her out

 

[Wyorp Rock]

@Wyorp Rock her comb has been falling a little bit but today i noticed it started turning purple, just like in my old hens that were close to dying . She isn't laying anymore, is eating less (she was the fattest, now she islike other hens). If she is about to die i let her out in order to make her die happily with other hens. I didn't even forcefeed her with nystatin today

I'm sorry to hear she's not doing any better.

I agree, let her out with the others. You have done a good job trying to help her

 

[KranK]

Either my vision was bad because of waking up early and bad light in the coop, or her comb really was purplish and then became normal? To my surprise her crop today was almost flat, no food, a bit of liquid but there was barely any! She ate whole lot of scratch and wheat i think. Maybe it somehow pushed the impaction? I'll keep you posted.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Poor baby There was no egg stuck fortunately, and she went roosting tonight

Sounds like she's hanging in there.
You're doing what you can for her.

 

[KranK]

I'm very sorry to hear that
Sadly hens with reproductive issues often decline no matter what we do to help them - you did a good job caring for her.

Thank you for helping

 

[KranK]

I'll mark her with a loose zip-tie, so after a night without water grandpa will isolate her and give her water. Could i give her some yoghurt with cooked yolk in the evening so she woudln't be hungry at night or in the morning?

 

[KranK]

One of the articles says that the first thing i should do is make her vomit. Should i do it before night?

"First thing you need to do is get this gunk out of her crop. This stuff is going to become toxic very quick like and since chickens can't vomit, you will need to do it for them. If left untreated, this gunk can poison her. So take her outside for this next procedure. Hold her like a football in one arm, beak facing out. With your other hand support her at the Crop. Stand yourself with feet apart and lean yourself and the bird forward. You are going to want to lean her far down, beak facing the ground, tail up. Gently squeeze and massage the Crop. The MOMENT the fluid starts to come up out and out of the beak, hold her for no more than 2 seconds in this position and then stand her and yourself back up. Any longer and you can aspirate her. Give her a few moments to catch her breath and do it again. REMEMBER....stick to 2 seconds only in this downward position. Do this until you can't get anymore out. You will never get it all out of the Crop, but do your best so she can heal faster and feel better as well."

 

[KranK]

The zip tie should be fine if you leave it fairly loose, but not so loose it will slide up her leg.

Right. 2 different perspectives in the articles. Unless you are very confident in what you are doing, then I would not vomit her - you risk aspiration. I've never had to vomit a hen that had a crop issue but some people do that. It may make it better, I couldn't say.

If possible, I would cage or kennel her so you can monitor what her poop looks like and that will be easier for Grandpa to tend to her as well.

Do make water available for her.

I'll mark her and she'll sleep in the coop but in the morning grandpa will put her in a empty rabbit hutch. So as she doesn't drink water at night, she'll get plain water in the morning and a bit of food before taking her to the coop. Should i make her vomit when the crop doesn't empty itself?

 

[KranK]

Likely will not empty until you start treating the crop issue.
Read my post about vomiting...it's totally up to you - if you feel confident in doing that, then so be it.

So the only way to treat it is either to vomit or to give her this cream?