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have a hen that has a crop the size of a grapefruit , dont think it sour crop as no smell and feels quite firm (food matter) .

ive seperated her with no food and will leave her overnight to see if it passes , given her a bit of oil but is there anything else i can try?

 

cheers

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have a hen that has a crop the size of a grapefruit , dont think it sour crop as no smell and feels quite firm (food matter) .

ive seperated her with no food and will leave her overnight to see if it passes , given her a bit of oil but is there anything else i can try?

 

cheers

 

 

You can help the oil do its job by gently massaging the crop, and give the bird another dose of oil before bed. It can take a few days to break up the compaction, so keep up the oil/massage. Hope she recovers :)

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cheers bert , shes quite happy but i was quite surprised by the size of it and it needs to be removed

 

 

Now i don't know if this is true but someone once told me that feeding live maggots will help break up a compacted crop. Maybe one of the poultry men on here can tell me whether or not that's bollox. I sorta think it sounds sensible, but freely admit i'm no expert :tongue2:

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ive had this before like bert says give the bird a few drops of cod liver oil.then hold the bird so its head and neck are angled towards the ground [not upside down].then gently massage the crop. working up to the beak.dont apply too much pressure. the contents of the crop should hopefully soften and the bird should reguritate the blockage. there may be a need to repeat the process over a couple of days. i had to last year with one of my birds before everything was back to normal. good luck.

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it wont come back up , ive tried vomiting it but nothing happened so it sounds like compacted rather then sour.

 

stupid chicken lol

 

 

When you read about the legion of things that can ail them, it's a bloody miracle any of them survive :laugh:

 

im a sucker for punishment , chickens and now lambs and pigs on the way

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ive had this before like bert says give the bird a few drops of cod liver oil.then hold the bird so its head and neck are angled towards the ground [not upside down].then gently massage the crop. working up to the beak.dont apply too much pressure. the contents of the crop should hopefully soften and the bird should reguritate the blockage. there may be a need to repeat the process over a couple of days. i had to last year with one of my birds before everything was back to normal. good luck.

 

ive dont that a few times, works very well, saved a few birds by doing that

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just been on the phone to a good man in poultry and for compacted crop he suggests-run some warm water down the birds throat. let it breathe massage the crop, then angle the bird to the ground and continue to massage until the bird vomits. i must admit i havent tried this myself but he said it has worked for him with a bird with compacted crop.

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just been on the phone to a good man in poultry and for compacted crop he suggests-run some warm water down the birds throat. let it breathe massage the crop, then angle the bird to the ground and continue to massage until the bird vomits. i must admit i havent tried this myself but he said it has worked for him with a bird with compacted crop.

 

sounds like it would work :thumbs:

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