Sour crop, need some extra guidance here

[Johnn]

He's hungry, keeps pecking at my shiny fingernails when I try to massage his crop. I did make him regurgitate some of the stuff in there cause it was so full and nasty every time I massaged. Figured I would let him rest a while, it's not empty by any means but there was a lot of stuff that came out. Looks like watery slimy feed to me.

Why would you regurgitate them and then give them feed, something is not right in there or we would not be back in this situation now. How do I go about fixing what is wrong?

What you need to do is next time is blows back up, completely empty it and then starve him for 24hrs. In that time just give him water and a pea sized amount of Darkatin and with any look he should be fixed.

 

[casportpony]

Well it really wont get any better if they don't empty it. It wont go away by itself unless they go to the vets and get them to treat it.

Treat with Nystatin or Diflucan and it will go away if it is a just a yeast infection.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Also you need to act fast, a chicken goes down so quick with a sour crop. I lost my favouraite girl to it.

Sorry you lost your hen, but did you have a necropsy done on her? If not, there is no way of knowing what the actual cause of death was, IMO.

-Kathy

 

[ivyrash]

Treat with Nystatin or Diflucan and it will go away if it is a just a yeast infection.

-Kathy

Are those two medicines you get from a vet? He had nothing to eat yesterday so we may try that if I can get my hands on some today. Howl long should I wait before I start feeding him again?

 

[casportpony]

Are those two medicines you get from a vet? He had nothing to eat yesterday so we may try that if I can get my hands on some today. Howl long should I wait before I start feeding him again?

A vet has them, but you can buy them online without a prescription. If you need help finding them, let me know. If your rooster was mine, he would get weighed, dusted for mites/lice, dewormed and tube fed fluids for 24 hours. It's not usually the disease that kills them, it's dehydration and starvation.

-Kathy

 

[ivyrash]

A vet has them, but you can buy them online without a prescription. If you need help finding them, let me know. If your rooster was mine, he would get weighed, dusted for mites/lice, dewormed and tube fed fluids for 24 hours. It's not usually the disease that kills them, it's dehydration and starvation.

-Kathy

Ok, I'm with you on everything but the tube feeding part. What size tube should I use. He is a bantam cochin, 5 months old. Do I still need to tube the liquids if I am seeing him drink? After 24 hrs what would you do? This has been going on about a week. He has not had anything to eat since Sat. evening and that made him blow up again. His crop still has a little bit of stuff in it this AM but not blown up like a balloon. My vet does not have the two meds you suggested earlier, I am calling around to find someone that does treat poultry but the next closest town with a vet is about 25 miles and they probably don't treat poultry either. I think you said earlier how much fluids they need.

 

[casportpony]

Question, when his crop blows up, is full of air/ gas or water? If it's air/gas, you should be able to massage the crop to help it escape. If your vet doesn't have the meds, a pharmacy does for sure and your vet could call in the prescription.



-Kathy

 

[ivyrash]

Is this your normal routine with birds that are off?

 

[ivyrash]

Its a combination of air and food. The last time he ate was Sat. evening. Sunday morning it was full and when massaged there is a sort of popping sound and then a nasty smell. I did make him regurgitate yesterday and there is a lot of watery grainy feed in there also.

 

[casportpony]

For tubing, get yourself the following:

• Digital kitchen scale
• 35 or 60 cc catheter tip syringe
• Size 16 french catheter feeding tube
• Pedialyte
• Kaytee Exact Baby Bird Food

-Kathy