I swear my issues with my flock are never ending. First it's bumble foot, which I stalked up on vet wrap(awesome stuff), boric acid mix and now my Brahma has sour crop.
I'm hoping I'm doing this right! Her crop is 3-5x's the normal size the other morning, so I felt it and it was squishy. She's perky and tail up, but I did not want to wait on this. She's had sour crop 3 times as a chick, I'm assuming she prone to it. Almost dying the first time as a baby.(just on starter feed). Plus, she always threw up liquid on her own frequently until she was a year old.
Anyways, her mouth didn't smell, but I emptied part of her crop leaning her forward and the wrenchiest pukiest liquid came out, then about a dozen army worms and other nasty stuff. It smelt like gut rot. I let her be for a while and repeated the process later that day when she came up for water.
I mixed water, probios, and a little olive oil mixture and put it at the base of her beak. She did not fight me. I did that once after the first empty.
Yesterday I noticed her crop is still squishy, so I repeated the process. Yuckier stuff came out with some more worms. I repeated the mixture, but added 125mg of amoxicillian. This time she fought me with the mixture. Her crop went down to normal!
Do I try this again today? Or leave her alone. This is my 9 year old daughters bird and there are no vets near here that will look after chickens.
I don't know if she's pooping normally. It was 90 outside and the flock stayed in the cool woods until sundown.
Is sour crop a blockage? Do I need to be more worried?
I'm hoping I'm doing this right! Her crop is 3-5x's the normal size the other morning, so I felt it and it was squishy. She's perky and tail up, but I did not want to wait on this. She's had sour crop 3 times as a chick, I'm assuming she prone to it. Almost dying the first time as a baby.(just on starter feed). Plus, she always threw up liquid on her own frequently until she was a year old.
Anyways, her mouth didn't smell, but I emptied part of her crop leaning her forward and the wrenchiest pukiest liquid came out, then about a dozen army worms and other nasty stuff. It smelt like gut rot. I let her be for a while and repeated the process later that day when she came up for water.
I mixed water, probios, and a little olive oil mixture and put it at the base of her beak. She did not fight me. I did that once after the first empty.
Yesterday I noticed her crop is still squishy, so I repeated the process. Yuckier stuff came out with some more worms. I repeated the mixture, but added 125mg of amoxicillian. This time she fought me with the mixture. Her crop went down to normal!
Do I try this again today? Or leave her alone. This is my 9 year old daughters bird and there are no vets near here that will look after chickens.
I don't know if she's pooping normally. It was 90 outside and the flock stayed in the cool woods until sundown.
Is sour crop a blockage? Do I need to be more worried?
