*URGENT* NEED ADVICE

[azygous]

**I used a massage technique called frictioning. I'm a massage therapist and it is just like it sounds. Get the fingers center mass . Dig in a little and make quick short back and forth motions. Maybe 20 to 30 seconds at a time.

This is the massage technique I use that is highly effective to break up a stubborn crop mass. You first need to give two teaspoons of oil. I use coconut oil slightly chilled for ease in getting it into the chicken's beak. Then use the technique described by @ChicNmom concentrating on one spot in the center of the mass. Focus. Keep massaging that one point until you feel it break up.

If it refuses to break up, give more oil, and keep trying. One time I had such a stubborn case that it took an entire hour of constant massage and repeated doses of oil to get it to break up. When it began to break up, it seemed to fall apart all at once and I kept massaging until the crop was emptied of this solid material. This patient also had sour crop due to the mass fermenting. So I followed up with miconazole for seven days.

 

[Neeci84]

This is the massage technique I use that is highly effective to break up a stubborn crop mass. You first need to give two teaspoons of oil. I use coconut oil slightly chilled for ease in getting it into the chicken's beak. Then use the technique described by @ChicNmom concentrating on one spot in the center of the mass. Focus. Keep massaging that one point until you feel it break up.

If it refuses to break up, give more oil, and keep trying. One time I had such a stubborn case that it took an entire hour of constant massage and repeated doses of oil to get it to break up. When it began to break up, it seemed to fall apart all at once and I kept massaging until the crop was emptied of this solid material. This patient also had sour crop due to the mass fermenting. So I followed up with miconazole for seven days.

Ok so I need to stay diligent. Always stay in the center? Luckily my girl eats coconut oil like its candy.

 

[ChicNmom]

If you feel it break up really well in the center then I would find the next hardest part of the mass and then find the center of that and start again.

It may not all move through in one day. Don't be discouraged if it seems to clump together again over night.
Thus happened with my hen but each time it was a much smaller clump in the morning.

 

[Neeci84]

What did u feed her during this time and how much? Did u keep her isolated?

 

[Neeci84]

Update.... her crop was very hard this morning but about the size of a golf ball. I did the oil and friction massage. The weird thing is it seems to break up and feel softer as soon as I start to massage it. But doesn't empty. Do u think that means the blockage is further down her digestive system? I'm going to keep up the oil and massage today and hope for the best. I feel like the yeast medicine is really knocking out the sourness

 

[azygous]

This is good progress. Is she feeling any better yet? She should be. Keep up the massage. you're almost out of the woods. Offer her grit, water and boiled egg. This will keep the crop active and help push the mass through her gizzard. That her crop has emptied this much indicates things are moving through the gizzard.