- Mar 2, 2015
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Would it be bad to introduce multiple different treatments at once for sour crop?
One of our chickens had a crop blockage last year and eventually recovered after expensive vet treatment and multiple times a day of massages and medication and I think she came out of it with a slow crop. Previously it would flare up and not drain overnight but it would go away after a couple days with a crop bra.
Since about late March (a year after her initial problem), her crop has not be draining and for most of that time she hasn't been able to get on the roost at night and has been sleeping on the coop floor. She's had crops bras on and off in that time, but now she's so huge the crop bra keeps slipping down underneath her crop. She was still doing ok last weekend, but when I saw her last night she was very pale and weak. She couldn't stand or walk with the crop bra on so we took it off. She's still weak and off balance today, even without the crop bra, because her crop is just so heavy, but we did put a crop bra on her (and it of course slipped down again).
I think she probably has sour crop now. Her crop is not hard and felt like it was filled tight with gas today although previously it's been liquidy. When I squeeze it, there's gurgling and sometimes she's tilt her head up like she's drinking because I think I'm probably squeezing some back up her throat. It's hard to tell if her breath smells because everything smells out there. She doesn't have any beak leakage, so she not totally filled up yet.
Because she's weak, that seems to indicate that she's not really getting much nutrition although she has previously been eating and drinking at least some. Last weekend I saw her do a smelly, mushy green poop.
We asked our vet since we didn't want to have to bring her in again and she suggested giving her 20cc of water twice a day and massages, although that sure seems like a lot of water. She also recommended watered down food and we tried that this morning and I got her to take some by syringe, but she wasn't really interested in eating. She also suggested probiotics, which I bought today and put in their water and gave her 4cc of by syringe. She said that she would have prescribed antibiotics rather than anti-fungal medication, but everything I've read here indicates an anti-fungal medication should be used. Since she's in such bad shape now, I don't want to order nystatin or medistat online and how to wait for it to arrive, I'd rather just go out to the store and get some miconazole and try that.
Since she hasn't been eating much, I was also thinking of getting a poultry nutrient drench and giving her that. But I'm wondering if we should just do things one at a time or if it's ok to just try everything at once since she's so weak now.
I'm also wondering how you can get them to eat the miconazole cream and what the dosing should be.
One of our chickens had a crop blockage last year and eventually recovered after expensive vet treatment and multiple times a day of massages and medication and I think she came out of it with a slow crop. Previously it would flare up and not drain overnight but it would go away after a couple days with a crop bra.
Since about late March (a year after her initial problem), her crop has not be draining and for most of that time she hasn't been able to get on the roost at night and has been sleeping on the coop floor. She's had crops bras on and off in that time, but now she's so huge the crop bra keeps slipping down underneath her crop. She was still doing ok last weekend, but when I saw her last night she was very pale and weak. She couldn't stand or walk with the crop bra on so we took it off. She's still weak and off balance today, even without the crop bra, because her crop is just so heavy, but we did put a crop bra on her (and it of course slipped down again).
I think she probably has sour crop now. Her crop is not hard and felt like it was filled tight with gas today although previously it's been liquidy. When I squeeze it, there's gurgling and sometimes she's tilt her head up like she's drinking because I think I'm probably squeezing some back up her throat. It's hard to tell if her breath smells because everything smells out there. She doesn't have any beak leakage, so she not totally filled up yet.
Because she's weak, that seems to indicate that she's not really getting much nutrition although she has previously been eating and drinking at least some. Last weekend I saw her do a smelly, mushy green poop.
We asked our vet since we didn't want to have to bring her in again and she suggested giving her 20cc of water twice a day and massages, although that sure seems like a lot of water. She also recommended watered down food and we tried that this morning and I got her to take some by syringe, but she wasn't really interested in eating. She also suggested probiotics, which I bought today and put in their water and gave her 4cc of by syringe. She said that she would have prescribed antibiotics rather than anti-fungal medication, but everything I've read here indicates an anti-fungal medication should be used. Since she's in such bad shape now, I don't want to order nystatin or medistat online and how to wait for it to arrive, I'd rather just go out to the store and get some miconazole and try that.
Since she hasn't been eating much, I was also thinking of getting a poultry nutrient drench and giving her that. But I'm wondering if we should just do things one at a time or if it's ok to just try everything at once since she's so weak now.
I'm also wondering how you can get them to eat the miconazole cream and what the dosing should be.