maryn7
Songster
I've got a girl who seemed fine two days ago. Yesterday morning, she was seated in the run - I saw her drink a couple sips of water but she wouldn't eat anything. Not overly hunched, but tail at half staff - clearly not feeling the best.
Figure it's something to do with her crop - and I've gone back and forth between impacted and sour crop (esp from this article).
Brought her in to assess - her crop felt mushy, but all I could really feel in there was what I believe is some grit in the crop. She's our flappiest girl, so we were only able to get a very little bit of coconut oil into her. She started panting, and she also sort of burped a few times. The smell was unremarkable. But she's just acting like she simply is not hungry or thirsty.
Eventually, we returned her to her flock, all of whom were free ranging. Tried treats, offering water. Just uninterested. Spent some of the day resting, some of it walking around with everybody, tail up, sort of acting like she's pecking but not really eating anything she found. She looked like she was trying to get stones or hard matter, if anything. She put herself to bed on the early side.
Got her first thing this am, crop still exactly the same - feels like it's mostly - but not completely - full of air or water. We got more coconut oil in her this am (she's still fighting). And she just pooped (on a bathmat, so not much to show for a photo). It was mostly water, white urea, some dark green matter (guessing old grass), and what looks like a hard seed - size of a popcorn kernel.
I have some Monistat and am about to administer, thinking that this is most likely sour crop. I really cannot feel a mass of anything in there - but it is possible it's some long grass that is bunched up against the exit to the crop.
Just figured I'd pop over here to see if anyone had ideas that *aren't* coconut oil for potential impacted crop or the Monistat for sour crop.
I feel like at this point I've got to get some water in her more than anything else. Thanks for any advice you might have.
Edited to add: she's doing a lot of panting in the bathroom (though not outside yesterday and it was in the 90s). And she did lay her egg yesterday - went to the egg box.
We also definitely saw her drink water from the saucer of a potted plant the day before she presented with symptoms. As always, they prefer the grossest water possible. So she could have gotten some kind of algae or bacteria that way.
Figure it's something to do with her crop - and I've gone back and forth between impacted and sour crop (esp from this article).
Brought her in to assess - her crop felt mushy, but all I could really feel in there was what I believe is some grit in the crop. She's our flappiest girl, so we were only able to get a very little bit of coconut oil into her. She started panting, and she also sort of burped a few times. The smell was unremarkable. But she's just acting like she simply is not hungry or thirsty.
Eventually, we returned her to her flock, all of whom were free ranging. Tried treats, offering water. Just uninterested. Spent some of the day resting, some of it walking around with everybody, tail up, sort of acting like she's pecking but not really eating anything she found. She looked like she was trying to get stones or hard matter, if anything. She put herself to bed on the early side.
Got her first thing this am, crop still exactly the same - feels like it's mostly - but not completely - full of air or water. We got more coconut oil in her this am (she's still fighting). And she just pooped (on a bathmat, so not much to show for a photo). It was mostly water, white urea, some dark green matter (guessing old grass), and what looks like a hard seed - size of a popcorn kernel.
I have some Monistat and am about to administer, thinking that this is most likely sour crop. I really cannot feel a mass of anything in there - but it is possible it's some long grass that is bunched up against the exit to the crop.
Just figured I'd pop over here to see if anyone had ideas that *aren't* coconut oil for potential impacted crop or the Monistat for sour crop.
I feel like at this point I've got to get some water in her more than anything else. Thanks for any advice you might have.
Edited to add: she's doing a lot of panting in the bathroom (though not outside yesterday and it was in the 90s). And she did lay her egg yesterday - went to the egg box.
We also definitely saw her drink water from the saucer of a potted plant the day before she presented with symptoms. As always, they prefer the grossest water possible. So she could have gotten some kind of algae or bacteria that way.
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