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[lalaqueen]

Anyone have any suggestions for helping a chicken with a blocked crop? She's stretching her neck and gagging. I've massaged it and given her some warm water with olive oil mixed in... She's walking around but isn't pooping cause her vent looks dirty.
I'm in Dallas.

She died tonight.

 

[carcar80]

She died tonight.

I'm sorry I really didn't have any advice you hadn't already said/received. I had a RIR hen once that I treated for what I thought was sour crop or something similar for weeks. I did what you were doing, in addition to what another poster suggested about emptying the crop. She eventually just wasted to the point I had hubby wring her neck. Stinks when you can't help them.

 

[Flowerbh]

Was sad today because DH made me give away my beautiful Chocolate male runner duck just because he liked the ladies too much! DH just wouldn't listen to me that it was normal behavior. Oh well.

Lockdown tonight for my hatch this weekend. This hatch includes the Mottled Orpington eggs I got from the Newnan show. Only 8 of the 24 developed anything. (Will be picking up the replacement dozen the man agreed to give me next week) It also includes the Marans eggs I got from the judging table. Only 2 of the 4 were fertile.

On a good note, got 20 chicken eggs today plus 2 duck eggs. Sold 7 dozen eggs today. And, some of my chickens who haven't laid an egg in like 6 months started laying again!

 

[eqserman]

I'm sorry

I really didn't have any advice you hadn't already said/received. I had a RIR hen once that I treated for what I thought was sour crop or something similar for weeks. I did what you were doing, in addition to what another poster suggested about emptying the crop. She eventually just wasted to the point I had hubby wring her neck. Stinks when you can't help them.

Sorry for your loss, will probably have to wring the neck on one of my rescued hens this week, she has pasty butt and 9 weeks and no improvement, going to be hard to do.

 

[lalaqueen]

I'm sorry I really didn't have any advice you hadn't already said/received. I had a RIR hen once that I treated for what I thought was sour crop or something similar for weeks. I did what you were doing, in addition to what another poster suggested about emptying the crop. She eventually just wasted to the point I had hubby wring her neck. Stinks when you can't help them.

Thanks... Unfortunately it was too hard to diagnose due to the strange and varied symptoms ... I'm very sad ... She was my first chicken and a dear pet. I'm treating my other chickens with antibiotics and then worming them,
I only have the 2 that are a year old and then separated in another place I have 2 - 4 week old chicks. I'm just so paranoid now.

 

[carcar80]

Sorry for your loss, will probably have to wring the neck on one of my rescued hens this week, she has pasty butt and 9 weeks and no improvement, going to be hard to do.

I'm sorry for you too. I still don't think I know what kind of "pasty butt" you mean.. I think of chicks where it closes their entire vent off and that's what can kill them. Is your bird's vent still actually getting closed off? Or does the bird just have a messy hind end? There must be other symptoms I've missed besides that. Forgive me, I try to keep up.

 

[eqserman]

I'm sorry for you too. I still don't think I know what kind of "pasty butt" you mean.. I think of chicks where it closes their entire vent off and that's what can kill them. Is your bird's vent still actually getting closed off? Or does the bird just have a messy hind end? There must be other symptoms I've missed besides that. Forgive me, I try to keep up.

Well she has not had a "normal" poop for over three weeks, she basically "squirts" a very small amount green poo, which just sticks to her vent. Her area around her vent was bleeding, and now is a scab and also blocking some of her vent. When I bath and clean the area, daily she then proceeds to have a large discharge of watery, greenish poo, but then it reverts back to a small squirt and blocking her vent. The vet 6 weeks ago said parasites, and gave her antibiotics orally for ten days, have tried Probiotics, ACV as well as yogurt and everything I can think of. Have tried using destined around her vent area. Poo continues to just stick and block her vent and the area around her vent just stays red. Now going on 9 weeks, and isolation and about out of options other then to put her down.

 

[katsdar]

@lalaqueen I'm sending you a hug, my PC is acting up.

 

[katsdar]

I need your help!!

I have a dilemma

The dog that I was trying to find a home for, ok since I have started to use the shock collar,and was going to keep her has now developed sever separation anxiety. I have an evening job so I left the house to do that and my DH went to bed leaving the dogs out in the rest of the house which is not a problem, Cleopatra got off my kitchen cart a whole gallon of oil and chew a hole in it, I had oil from hell to clean up, when I leave the house I have to chain her up outside cause she had started chewing and getting into things, but this is the first time she had done this oil thing with someone home but not with in sight, I know she will not do well in the pound because of her timidness and the abuse she endured before I got her. Do I just go ahead and take and have her put down, or take her to the pound,

Carcar you met her. This makes me so sad, she is otherwise a good dog until she started this junk.

 

[katsdar]

@JoshFig it should be chick time are we still on schedule?