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

[AndreaS]

Woohoo!!

I'm so glad she made it

So, they didn't have to use general anesthesia?

Keeping my fingers crossed that it's not a gizzard impaction! Maybe her crop was just still slow, and you had broken down the impacted foods before when you were doing the massage and all of that. Will she still be pendulous?

Hope you and your daughter continue feeling better as well!

 

[caralouise1974]

She's home now, looking a bit shocked and tired, but hopefully feeling better now she is in familiar surroundings.

I've got to continue the nystatin for 48 hrs, and she has a five day course of Baytril too, and on Weds I have to phone the vet and we'll make a decision on whether she's improving or needs to be put to sleep.

For now, I've let her sleep in the coop with her friend Bella, as I'm sure she's going to be happier there than in a cage in our stifling hot kitchen. She has no access to food in any case, so I don't see the harm in it. In the morning, I'll let her out and then bring her inside to the cage until I can come home at lunchtime and am allowed to start feeding her.

She's had a huge drink, and seemed interested in the garden and her surroundings, so that's got to be a good sign...

 

[caralouise1974]

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Thanks Andrea, we're all feeling fine now! Daisy didn't have to have a general, just a local, which I'm sure helped a huge amount. Her crop seems to be a normal size now, and even after having a massive drink it isn't hanging down low at all. If she just manages to get through the next 48 hours and starts to show an interest in food over the next couple of days then we're over the worst...

 

[caralouise1974]

Oh, and I need some ideas about what to feed her when she can start eating tomorrow... I'm thinking bread soaked in milk, natural yoghurt, the fleshy insides of some cherry tomatoes, cheese spread... anything else? She's terribly fussy about food and doesn't especially like sticky or wet things, so I'm worried she won't be tempted by many of these types of food. She's a grain and greens girl really - which is probably how she managed to get a crop impaction that ended up so serious!

 

[Slater1995]

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I did the same surgery on my Cochin Hen last night myself and I plan on feeding her tonight if all is well when I get home to check her. I read, that applesause, yoguart and of course wet chicken feed is best but only a little. You can also try can cat food. Or is she must have her grain, try putting it a blender and making it a fine powder, My feed that I just got this week is a premixed feed that the feed mill makes themselves. It is sooo fine that I couldn't believe it. If she won't eat the applesause or the yoguart, I am going to give her just a little of the feed and see how she does with it.

 

[caralouise1974]

Thanks for the ideas - I will certainly try the fine grain mix if she doesn't want to eat anything else. And I know she likes cat food, so that's a great plan! Hurrah!

 

[MattalynsBarn]

Oh I'm so glad to hear she's home! Give her a kiss from her BYC followers!

 

[caralouise1974]

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I will add it to all the kisses I already gave her! I was pretending to give her the nystatin but really, I was sneaking little cuddles and kisses all the while!

Oh, and I was thinking - she LOVES the maggots I sometimes get from the fishing supplies shop (they're farmed, so not likely to give her botulism, don't worry everyone!). Would those be okay or possibly too rubbery? They're soft, sure, but will they get stuck? I bet they have massive amounts of protein, which has to be good for her, if she's allowed to eat them...

Thoughts on that one??????

 

[MattalynsBarn]

Awww!!!

Are they maggots or mealworms? I feed my lizards mealworms and so I know you can get them really small, so those *might* be ok

 

[caralouise1974]

Live maggots. Honestly, my girls go CRAZY for them!