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Ok, thanks. The frequency of her head twitching has picked back up to how often I was seeing it yesterday. She’s puffed up and lying on the wet ground.You can check the crop now if you wish, but the best gauge of crop function is very first thing in the morning before the bird has had anything to eat/drink.
If you feel it now and she's been eating/drinking, then it should feel firmish - like she's been eating. If the crop is really puffy/bloated or has a lot of fluid and she's not been drinking/eating a great deal, then that would be a good sign that there's an issue that needs to be addressed.
The way I do it is feel the crop at night when they go to roost, then first thing before I let them out. They have no food/water in the coop - so crops should be empty/flat.
Treating for Coccidiosis shouldn't be harmful to any of them, you would just cut out "extra" vitamins that contain B1 Thiamine during the course of treatment.
I tried feeling her crop but I’ve never done this before so I had a really hard time finding it. I tried finding the crop on my other girls and I couldn’t find it on them either BUT one thing I noticed was all the other girls we much heavier and meatier than my sick girl. My sick girl feel incredibly light and scarce honey compared to the others. All I felt was skin and bones. Since she’s been back with the girls I’ve seen her drink but not eat.
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