Update (pg 11): Daisy's crop - successful surgery and now eating!

[AndreaS]

How are You and Daisy doing today?

 

[caralouise1974]

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Thanks so much for your kind words!

It's been a rough couple of weeks, but I'm hoping Daisy will get better and continue to bring me so much joy.

As for couses of crop impaction, usually it's from eating long grass, so always put the clippings away after you've mown an overgrown lawn. Also, when preening, feathers can get ingested into the crop and get stuck, which is what I think happened to Daisy as she had started her first mini-moult. We've been unlucky to have two cases of it in a matter of five months, so please don't worry unduly about it.

 

[caralouise1974]

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I just dropped her off at the vet for crop gavage surgery. They've asked me to sign a consent for a general anaesthetic, just in case she doesn't co-operate when they try to use just a local, so I'm crossing my fingers she's going to be docile and behave herself. She's very thin, but still alert, so hopefully she's still strong enough to get through this...

I'm fine too, but have had a sickness bug for the whole weekend, so am off work today recovering, and my poor DD has had an awful prickly heat rash - it never rains but it pours eh?

But we're both okay, and looking forward to DD's first birthday on Thursday, and having Daisy home to celebrate hers at the end of next month (on the same day as mine!)

Will update later after the surgery is over... wish her luck...

 

[AndreaS]

 

[jjthink]

Much luck wished

Hope the humans in Daisy's life feel better too

JJ

 

[AndreaS]

Oh Cara! You really deserve a break!
There's got to be some good karma or something coming your way!

I would be interested to know, do you think the anti-fungal's helped at all? I was thinking about trying to get some to stock my chicken first aid kit with.

Keeping you all in my thoughts-
Hang in there!

 

[caralouise1974]

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I think it has probably prevented her from going under with poisoning from the rotten contents of her crop, yes, but with the crop not being empty, it was like trying to put out a forest fire with a water pistol really.

 

[caralouise1974]

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Thanks JJ

DD is much better today, as the Piriton seems to have kicked in and the rash has gone, and I just had a light breakfast and kept it down, so that's good news too! Just waiting on Daisy now...

 

[jjthink]

Let's get a perfect trifecta

Off to work, will be thinking of Daisy.
JJ

 

[caralouise1974]

Daisy's had the surgery and is alive!

I have to pick her up in an hour and then no food, just water, for 24 hours. The vet is concerned that nothing especially suspicious came out of the crop, so is unsure if this was even a crop impaction - the worst case scenario is that she has an impacted gizzard, and if that's the case she will continue to deteriorate and will need to be put to sleep.

I so hope that she gets better...