Sour crop

[Sunflowergirl]

This was the thread that I used.

I don't personally know but here is a good thread about it:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/630307/sour-crop-cured-with-monistat

I will share my experience. Mine was a little Easter Egger pullet around 15 weeks. One evening she just stopped foraging and stood there with an expression of, "OH! I don't feel so great!" I could not get her to eat any grass or really move. I felt her crop and it was squishy. I put her in my chickie hospital in the house (a big dog crate). I did what you did with the apple cider vinegar in the water and yogurt and simple crumbles. I got the monistat suppositories which are petroleum oil based and have 200 mg of the anti fungal. Since my pullet was so young and small. I divided one suppository up in to 4 which would be roughly 50 mg of the anti fungal. I gave her one fourth of the suppository at the morning and the night for about 4 days. She just ate them out of my hand. I also massaged her crop several times a day.
She is now laying me pretty green eggs! She did have a bit of a squishy crop about a month ago. This time, I just watched her and massaged on the crop morning and night. She got through that one with no medication.
This is just my experience and I am not and expert! It just worked for me!
I wish you the best!!!

edited: I went back and looked at the box and the suppositories are vegetable oil based!

 

[shell3]

Thanks guys! So good to have people to talk to she has not eaten any of the crumbs mash or yoghurt and barely touched the water with acv in it so I've given her clean water as I don't want her to dehydrate and got some canesten pesiries from the chemist I've chopped them into 3 pieces per tablet and just fed her the first piece in some scrambled egg. Thank god she ate something! She had a little water too. She has water diareah now! So I won't empty the crop again tonight as I don't want her to vomit the tablet back ou,I'm leaving her with scrambled egg and clean water for the night and will see where we are in the morning. I'm praying she will have perked up a bit by morning. Fingers crossed! She's indoors with us for the time being in a cage upstairs away from our cats! She really is a lovely chicken,part of our family and I hope she recovers,I'll be devastated if she leaves us. I'll post in the morning and keep you updated x

 

[Sunflowergirl]

Oh I do hope that stuff works!!! I am praying with you that she gets better!!!

 

[shell3]

Sunflowergirl- thanks for the hug I needed that
Well Big Bombie(my 3 yr old son named her!) seems slightly better today, she drank water last night but ate no more of the scrambled egg, she still had mouth open this morning but only for moments at a time and the crop felt smaller thou still sloshy and not right, I vomited her and there was not as much come up as previously and it was grey water this time rather than gloop which I'm thinking of as an improvement. I crushed another third of a canesten tablet and mixed it with a tiny amount of porridge and she ate that so I then gave more porridge and she ate that too. Just felt her crop now and it feels still smaller than yesterday so that's good but her comb is still droopy and she seems quiet and still has watery poop. I won't vomit her again until tonight as I want the meds to stay in the crop. Has recommended Beryl's friendly bacteria so ill order some online today. They won't say the canesten is ok coz it's a human med but said don't eat the eggs for at least a month which seems daft as I've taken that med myself so what's it going to harm! Anyway I couldn't care a less about eggs I. Just want her well and she's not laying at the moment anyway I'm hoping she will soon just to know she's on the mend. I'll post latter how she's doing x

 

[Sunflowergirl]

Slightly better is good!!!

Hang in there!

 

[shell3]

I checked on her when I got home from the school run and she was gasping again so I was going to empty the crop but as I started to tip her white foamy liquid shot out and was in her nose ,eyes and she started spluttering! I held her and soothed her,I thought she was going to die in my arms but she calmed. Then the phone rang,it was chicken vet calling to say they found a specialist chicken vet 20 mins from me so I called and they saw her straight away, the vet said she needs samples so I've got a pot to collect poop sample tonight and she's going back tomorrow to have her crop cleaned,they gave me stuff to go in the water to build her strength and a syringe to force her to drink it. Told me to feed her pellets which she has eaten a little of and picking up Beryl's friendly bacterial solution tomorrow along with antibiotics tomorrow. She also advised me to continue with the canesten! And said I'm doing everything right so that's a relief! Poor thing looks so ill it's unbearable but I won't give up on her she's a lovely girl and I'm going to fight for her! I'll give her the canesten tonight and the water solution with the syringe, I'm just giving her an hour to relax from the trip to the vets then i,ll do that.she said don't risk emptying the crop tonight so I won't and they are going to clean it tomorrow. So hope she perks up over night. I'll post in the morning

 

[Sunflowergirl]

I am so glad you found a good vet!!! And I know it was reassuring to hear from the vet that you were doing everything right!!!

 

[shell3]

Hi, just checked on Bombie and give her her protein supplement and another piece of canesten tablet and brilliant news! Her crop emptied over night! Yay! It's flat and all I can feel is grain in there no liquid at all! No more balloon crop. She's up and eating and much brighter and her poops are solid again no more watery poop. I just phoned the vet and cancelled her crop flush as I don't think she needs it and I don't want to put her through it if she doesn't . I'm still going to pick up the antibiotic coz even if I don't need it this time I can have it in the cupboard for emergencies, and I'm going to get the Beryl's friendly bacteria to balance the crop and strengthen her up . She's not better yet but it's looking really hopeful so it's definitely the canesten that's cleared the infectious fluid.
What great advice from you wonderful people! Thank you so much

 

[shell3]

Sunflower girl thank you for your brilliant advice

 

[Sunflowergirl]

Awwww! I am so glad things are on the up and up!!!

I don't know that I would call it advice as much as shared experience!!!