Vet experience

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Sour crop and slow crop are indeed often related tosomething elsewhere in the digestive tract. Impacted crop, however, is usually not--something is in the crop that has blocked it. Common things are excessive amounts of long blades of grass (a reason to NOT give grass clippings; much better to let them bite off small pieces), excessive amounts of grit, sand or rocks. Any of these can block the exit from the crop, causing everything else to form a massive traffic jam, so to speak.

You mentioned earlier that this bird likes to eat wood shavings--that could very well cause a crop impaction.

 

[cuntryuppiechick]

We are getting decent poops now. The crop isn't completely flat by morning but I assume that with any surgery you'd have swelling. I am going to follow the second vet's advice and keep him inside for three weeks. I'm still doing the same infirm diet. My little kitchen scale says 4.2 oz. I hope it is accurate enough to tell weight gain.

When he pulled out the grass, he pulled from the bottom and ripped the whole piece out and was trying to eat the whole strand before I took it away. The vet found some wadded grass but didn't say not to tractor them.