After 8 straight days at the vet, Jen is home now in a pen at the end of our bed (we have a house full of out of town guests!) Her weight came back to 4.2 (low was 3.9 lbs, former is 4. 9 lbs) We are hand feeding her a bird formula with a syringe, she won't eat it on her own, 20mls, 6 X/day, metronidazole 2x day, and 1 ml of a medicine (?) for mobility of the GI tract. She's getting really strong! We had her in a pen in the yard today in the sun, it was the first time she's seen the light of day in a week. She looked so healthy, her sisters were glad to see her, they stayed close to her wherever we moved her pen. We want to keep her penned because we are looking for those dang pellets as they exit.
I've been massaging her crop which was distended and now getting smaller but a lump of it just won't move. The vet wants to keep her on a mostly liquid diet to flush out all the old food but mealworms are okay and she is eating them up. I think the sun, the activity, and the familiar faces and surroundings helped a lot because after our first feeding I massaged her crop for a while and then she let out her first healthy looking poop, Full of grass blades from over a week ago and no more yellow. No pellets though. All I want for christmas are five pellets from Jen.