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[threehorses]

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Wow, congrats on the surgery. She won't eat voluntarily. You'll have to give her bits frequently in the beak in a not-very-wet paste (so it doesn't drip down the back of her throat but she has to swallow it). Frequent and low volume to catch her up. The high density of nutrition that is available in just a small quantity of formula will help, as will the probiotics that are already in the parrot formula so you don't necessarily have to do probios. It won't hurt.

Please do continue to update. I am glad those shavings are out of there as nothing would have dissolved them.

 

[Bantimna]

I don't know whats wrong but hope it comes out right.

 

[crazy huhn]

Update: She is doing well after her crop surgery. Eating and drinking, actually still drinking a lot (OACV water: 1 Tbsp OACV per pint of water).
She eats her layer crumble and once a day I give her crumble mixed w/oatmeal out of the food processor and probios mixed w/ little water to a paste.
Her droppings are normal colored now, but still of extremely soft consistency (cow sh..), {maybe even some dead roundworms in there from the deworming 23 days ago, cannot tell for sure as she also looses plenty of dandruff/molt and I do not own a microscope }. Because of that, I just gave her plain water tonight. Does too much OACV in her water also make the droppings watery?
She also gets Polyvisol once a day.

I have 2 of her sisters with similar symptoms. One is back with the rest of my flock and seems OK, while the other one gets weaker and weaker and has about 75% very soft droppings to 25% normal droppings. Quintessence, just my Cochins and none of the other breeds?

 

[crazy huhn]

Another 3 days have past and we are still doing the same. She is recovering well from her crop surgery, but the droppings are the same. Once a day I give her powdered oatmeal with crumble, 1000 mg Vitamin E, 100 mg Vitamin B and half Teaspoon of Probios. In addition to that: about 5 drops of Polyvisol in her beak.

She has plain water and layer crumble free choice all day long. She is all alert of her surroundings.

What else can I do to achieve normal droppings?

 

[crazy huhn]

This is what I got out of her crop after surgery. It has been 2 weeks and she is eating and drinking fine.

My problem still is her diarrhea. I have tried Sulmet (OMG: the feed store sold me an expired bottle from 2007 and I noticed it after treating her with it for 5 days....).
Now I do have her on Tetracycline 250 mg per day (from the pet store to treat fish ), 4 days with this treatment do not show a difference.

She eats her regular crumble and drinks a lot ( 1.5 cups of water this morning in 2 hrs). The droppings from the night in the morning look a little firmer, but as soon as she starts drinking, it is watery with loose normal colored droppings and very little white streaks of urates....

Is there any hope for her?

 

[ruth]

When you performed the surgery did you flush out the crop - wash it out? She might have a blockage in the small narrow part leading out of the crop. I'm just guessing because after my hen's crop surgery she began eating and pooping giant piles of poop whereas prior to surgery it was nothing but water. To me the diarrhea indicates that if she is eating, food is still not being processed properly.

I would try witholding food and water overnight and check her crop the next morning. See if you can feel anything in there - maybe a small lump near top or bottom that you can massage and break up.

Best of luck - you're doing everything you can.

 

[crazy huhn]

Family and friends call me crazy, but finally I took her to a vet.
The vet did an exam on her and did a fecal test. Not the C&S test, even though I requested it, but that is another story....., so the results came back all negative. However, they had an excellent avian specialist who recommended metronidazole and another round of worming this time with Panacur. In addition to that Kaopectate. After spending endless hours here on BYC and the internet, I would have never ever thought of that medication as it is commonly used for Blackhead or Canker in chickens, but my bird does not have any of that nor the matching symptoms. But great news: she is doing better after 7 weeks. She is still on the meds and time will really tell, but for now I am really really happy. Before I will put her back with her friends I want her to gain some weight back on and of course carefully rebuild the good bacteria in her guts after the antibiotic treatment.