Sour crop? Impacted crop? Doesn't fit any of these

Mmeellyy · Jun 24, 2020

I have a 7 week old silver laced barnevelder that I thought had sour crop. I brought her in this morning after taking the food away all night last night. I found a YouTube video of a mix of some herbs and lemon juice and water. I syringed it to her a couple times, by the end of the afternoon she was full of hell and bouncing around. Her crop was back down.

I put her back in the coop this evening and went to check on her an hour later.. she gorged herself. Her crop is huge and hard.

Everything I read says that their appetite should be gone.

She is pooping fine and seems insatiable.

I took the food away for the night to check her crop in the morning. I am lost.

I don't want to lose her, I only had 4 hens hatch out of these eggs.

Any ideas??
She has ACV in the water, she is running around with everyone? I am super confused.

Lobo123 · Jun 24, 2020

How does the crop feel?

At morning her crop should be empty. If it is, I don't think you have anything to worry about. Chickens usually have very large crops by the end of the day, at night they empty their crop and should be empty by morning.

Mmeellyy · Jun 25, 2020

Lobo123 said:
How does the crop feel?

At morning her crop should be empty. If it is, I don't think you have anything to worry about. Chickens usually have very large crops by the end of the day, at night they empty their crop and should be empty by morning.

The food was out of it but it is huge. So she's digesting the food. She's walking around with no neck again too.

I have a friend bringing me a small kennel to use this morning. I will isolate her in it in the coop with water again and get it cleared out.

Would this be sour crop? Even though she is digesting everything? They're on medicated chick feed.

Kiki · Jun 25, 2020

Can you get clear pictures of how big her crop looks?

And clear pictures of fresh poop?

Mmeellyy · Jun 25, 2020

Kiki said:
Can you get clear pictures of how big her crop looks?

And clear pictures of fresh poop?

Here's some photos. She had a small poop when I brought her in. I assume from the stress. I will get a better one once she poops again. Yesterday it looked normal but a bit runny.

She is lively. She is protesting being in the kennel today right away.

I do hear some "air" when I massage her crop. Maybe it is sour crop? She is digesting everything out of it though, so it isn't slow.