Sour crop

[Bogtown Chick]

Great Great news again. Good Girl Bombie. She's on the mend. I'd keep an eye on here for a couple weeks though. make sure she's not eating hay or long grassy sorts of things. Watch out for yeasty doughy breads. Just straight up grains, mash, what have you. She's probably going to have to be a pretty "clean" eater from here on out. LOL Take care Shell. x

 

[shell3]

thank you and yes cleans the key i think she may not approve but we know better lol x

 

[Sunflowergirl]

Love hearing all the up and up reports!!!

 

[shell3]

thank sfg x shes still doing well and i think her combs improving some too god help me if she pops out an egg anytime soon ill break myface if i smile any harder! dont think thats likely for a while thou. just want to fatten her up now xx

 

[shell3]

bugger bugger bugger!!! bombies crop didnt empty this morning! thought she might have eaten early but not convinced. its now two in the sfternoon and its even bigger! not fluid but big and starting to sag again. it feels almost moldable like dough! ive given 1 ml liquid parafin by syringe and massaged ill check in 2 hours when ive picked the kids up from school fingers crossed its gone down by then. saw her poop its solid.brown with white. wish id carried on mashing the pellets! have removed food for now.

 

[shell3]

nope no movement yet 1 ml more .more massage. no food tonight. check in morning. idk! i feel lost

 

[Sunflowergirl]

Hang in there with her!!!

I know we got a 2 steps forward, 1 step back thing going... But hang in there!!!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

. . Come on bombie

 

[shell3]

Thanks guys

xx its so nice to have support, thou i do worry im getting boring now

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well after a total of 3 ml liquid parrafin and lots of massage last night i left them all without food for the night and crossed my fingers for the morning, then i sat trawling through page after page of threads on here trying to find where im going wrong, and i think i found it! found some posts from someone called ipana on a thread about sour crop and she she/he advises against putting them back on pellets so soon and instead giving baby food. the details wernt clear so i have pm'd ipana for some detail(i hope they dont mind!!) if they are still on here i hope they answer

i gave her baby food this morning but shes not too impressed. ive asked if mashing the pellets up with boiling water would have the same affect cos i know shell eat that. but im feeling more positive today and i just want her to fatten up a lot!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Morning Shell, or maybe good afternoon to you. I believe ipana was a big part of that wine thread. She had initial success with the wine but then ran into trouble again. I think there is something to the food texture thing to be sure. Reintroducing foods softly and slowly while that crop gets some, I dunno, muscle tonality back to it...LOL. That seemed to be a running part of that thread, the way the hens were fed initially after their trouble.

Brisk morning today -27 F. Everybody is cozy in the coop this morning. Day #4 of this deep freeze stuff. Chickens are behaving though and not picking on each other and must know deep down it's for their own good and that they must team together until we get through this bitter cold.