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Hey I stopped being notified of this post so sorry I didn't see it till now. I wanted to give my painful journey of where I've been at since in case it helps. As of Saturday she got really dehydrated. I ended up taking her Sunday to get emergency crop surgery which I wasn't sure was going to do any good. She made it through it and began to poop that evening. She started acidified copper sulfate on Monday but still isn't wanting to eat. She only wants cat food, and I gave her maybe 15 pieces throughout the day yesterday. But here's the thing. All this time later (in a cage in my house, so no access to any roughage), she's still pooping out thick nasty grass. Some is roughage like tangled grass/hay looking stuff and some is digested (think the texture of the grass that gets stuck in your lawn mower when you get a clog from mowing wet grass) but maybe looks like it was stuck in her gizzard a while. So the first two pieces of cat food I gave her on Tuesday didn't come out, and neither did the near 15 pieces from yesterday. I am not giving her anymore till I see movement. I've never seen a chicken this impacted. She literally was blocked from crop to intestines. All of it. Vet cleaned out crop. She had a lesion on her crop lining maybe from the junk in her crop or from the yeast. She seems grossed out by the copper sulfate in the water but today is day four and I'm afraid to stop it. Stools went from normal consistency with thick digested grass to now watery stools with the same junk mixed in. It's a bit bile-ish in color too. I am afraid that cat food soaked up all of her liquids yesterday and that she may be a bit slow to drain and end up with yeast again but hopefully not. It's just so hard to know what to do. In my case, this girl didn't have any chance without the surgery. Not sure if that's an option for you, but if it happens to another of mine again I will do that going forward. I've had them done for blocked crops before but never a sour crop. This is all new territory for me.Miconazole at first, full treatment. The suppositories are made from solidified oil in Canada. It's a bit like soap. I need to break it down to administer it. Kind of hard to administer, but I did it for the full 7 days, without improvement except for 1 morning (2 days after the start) when the crop was empty and flat in the morning. It came back after (the squishy crop, by the end of day no emptying after, except for yesterday morning).
I also gave her coconut oil during that time and massaged her crop. No improvement either.
I've waited a day or 2 and decided to try Clotrimazole. I read a couple of articles where people had a better luck with it than Monistat and it's in a cream format, so easy to give. I gave her 1cc 3x a day. It's a 6 days treatment. No improvement.
At some point, without any smell, I'm very doubtful that this is a sour crop.
If it's blocked down there, how is the flush going to work on the Impaction? By softening it?
As for the pre-digested part, the crop itself is not supposed to help digest the food. It stocks the food over there to be digested below. The food that is coming out when she overflows or when I made her vomit the other day was very very very mushy, liquid with nothing but mush in it. I agree it can be because of the liquid in the crop turning it into a mush instead of being pre-digested as I proposed.