Sour crop

[TwoCrows]

Usually when one of mine turn up with a yeast infection, whether it be a sour or doughy crop, its all liquid diarrhea until I get it under control. Once it solidifies, I know we are making progress.

 

[azygous]

Ive been seeing a running theme lately with the treatment of yeast and fungus. And that is that alot of the home remedies are oils.
I have a friend who had a toenail fungus years ago. And she told me she cured it herself with mentholatum rub. (greasy type of ointment) . I then ended up with a partial avulsion of a toenail after a winter sport and small boots and had a subsequent toenail fungal infection. Home remedy treatments were coconut oil and a citrus oil.
Now olive oil and oregano oil for sour crops. I think there is something to the oil breaking down the fungal membranes. But is something that is not to be just one time dosing. You need to be persistant and steady with applications. That's been the other take-home on their use. Can't do it 1/2 way or it wont work.

Anyways just thoughts out loud....

You're definitely on to something. I've cured a toenail fungus that persisted for over ten years and through toxic oral medications, simply dabbed coconut oil on the nail, and a couple months later - all gone.

I've been mulling over how this might be applied to yeast infections. Yeasts belong to the fungus family, so it might follow they'd be susceptible to oils. The trick is to use an oil that isn't toxic when ingested. Coconut oil is well known to be an anti-fungal and perfectly safe to ingest. So, it might prove useful in treating mild sour crop.

There's another yeast condition that affects chickens. It's vent gleet. I would be willing to try coconut oil to treat that condition.

 

[rjohns39]

I just went through this thread from front to back and find you folks simply amazing

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Yes the meds for nail fungus are hard on the liver and I know Dr's do Liver Function tests before they give those oral medications. Most people are not diligent enough to do topical applications of oil. So the expensive pills of Western medicine. Which do the job I must say. I saw Tea tree now after just googling today was more efficacious than the citrus oil. What doesn't Tea tree help with ?! LOL. Aussies onto that!
I think coconut oil tastes delicious and I'm thinking birds will readily narf down a bit of that! What luck to have easy dosing if the patient is willing. I'm sure they would be.
Have not had the vent gleet issue yet. I'm sure it's not pretty or nice to deal with.

 

[casportpony]

I case any of you are curious, nystatin is not absorbed, so it's perfectly safe for the liver and other organs. Nystatin must touch the yeast to be effective.

 

[azygous]

One of the things I love, love, LOVE about BYC is that we're all like scientists and our flocks are like our personal laboratories, and when we find out something useful, we immediately bring it here to share. BYC is a built-in peer review for our science experiments.

I learn more here than hours of googling on the internet.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I think Two Crows on an old thread noted some limitations with Nystatin due to full crops. So definitely from what I've heard there needs to be a clear or vomited crop for that med. And on the old thread she found Clotrimazole cream actually fought through debris better. Is that still holding true Two Crows after a few years since the old thread?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Agree whole heartedly. I'm getting chills sort of reading this stuff and how it all sort of brings our knowledge into similar conclusions and assessments. I have a great respect for vets and such...but for a person who cannot get to a vet...there is much that can be done right here and with options as to what kind of chicken keeper you are (medicine or natural options) and befitting of special situations. The excellence of chicken health care is happening right here. Wholistic approach for that bird. And what happens here will benefit another. And another.

One of the things I love, love, LOVE about BYC is that we're all like scientists and our flocks are like our personal laboratories, and when we find out something useful, we immediately bring it here to share. BYC is a built-in peer review for our science experiments.

I learn more here than hours of googling on the internet.

 

[rjohns39]

I am waaaaay more comfortable treating a human with homeopathic remedies, natural oils and the like than my birds. So far I've been blessed with good health—but I lurk on so many of these threads to see what you folks are doing. And I'm in awe.

 

[casportpony]

Wow, I've never seen this in my birds before. There are many types of yeast however. When ever I have vomited out yeasty crops or had birds with intestinal yeasts, they have always been white. But I will store this image in my brain in case I see this in my birds! Thanks for sharing Kathy!

The vet said mine had "candida"?