Speckled Sussex acting strange...

[Miss Lydia]

I'm sorry your hen is having problems. I've treated for sour crop only a few times and used this method from @Two Crows
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ntion-and-treatments-of-crop-disorders.67194/

 

[Everose]

With Gapeworm the hen would not be eating/drinking, they would be too busy gasping.
A foul odor can be caused by sour crop, infection, canker, etc.

Not true. I had a very different experience with gape worm, not sure what you history with gape worm has been but my hens have gone weeks (not on purpose, we were just busy and accidentally pushed it aside for way too long) without treatment and they ate and drank and we're active but kept choking until we treated.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Not true. I had a very different experience with gape worm, not sure what you history with gape worm has been but my hens have gone weeks (not on purpose, we were just busy and accidentally pushed it aside for way too long) without treatment and they ate and drank and we're active but kept choking until we treated.

Interesting. So how did you treat it?

 

[Everose]

Interesting. So how did you treat it?

Off with her head!

 

[Everose]

Actually I'm just kidding. We usually do beef tallow (we eat spaghetti those nights) hardened with oregano and garlic mixed into it. We may have used actual wormer that time but I rlly can't remember, we have a friggin ridiculous amount of animals that we maintain and worm ourselves so it would be like asking me what I ate for lunch on the second Tuesday of last month (chicken piccatta).

 

[Blue Raptor]

Is she doing like a stretching gasping motion?

Yes.

If there's no foul odor and she's eating I suspect gape worm. We've had it before and the chickens remain active and everything but will stretch their necks out and yawn or make a choking motion.

I never though of that...

With Gapeworm the hen would not be eating/drinking, they would be too busy gasping.
A foul odor can be caused by sour crop, infection, canker, etc.

She is eating, but not very much. Same goes for drinking.

 

[Everose]

Yes.

I never though of that...

She is eating, but not very much. Same goes for drinking.

Could you take a video possibly?

How does her crop feel? What is her body score, and how long has this been going on?

 

[Blue Raptor]

UPDATE: The stretching/gasping motion seems more like she’s trying to keep stuff down. I have been tipping her beak forward and massaging her crop to get the stuff out, but I only do that for a few seconds (so she can breath). She has been eating some kefir, which is good, and now that I have been emptying her crop, I do realize the smell. Is is still sour crop, or pendulous (did I spell this right?) crop? It seems to be potruding, is there anything else I can give her for sour crop, or should I look to treatment for pendulous (?) crop?

 

[Everose]

UPDATE: The stretching/gasping motion seems more like she’s trying to keep stuff down. I have been tipping her beak forward and massaging her crop to get the stuff out, but I only do that for a few seconds (so she can breath). She has been eating some kefir, which is good, and now that I have been emptying her crop, I do realize the smell. Is is still sour crop, or pendulous (did I spell this right?) crop? It seems to be potruding, is there anything else I can give her for sour crop, or should I look to treatment for pendulous (?) crop?

Is she pooping?

 

[Blue Raptor]

Is she pooping?

I’m not sure, I haven’t seen her poop.