slow crop

for context, i just posted yesterday (link attached with backstory and images) https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/broody-chicken-with-crop-problems-please-help.1626112/#post-27775536 about my 4-year-old hen pearls who is having crop issues. this is now day 4 of her crop issues and i am at...

backstory on pearls: she is a 4-year-old splash cochin, and she has currently been broody for around 2 weeks (this is her second time being broody this year and i am assuming the "cause" for these crop issues). so 2 days ago i noticed that my chicken pearls was having some issue with her crop...

Hello! I’m really going through with one of my hens. It’s been a month now and her crop never wants to empty all the way. It isn’t hard, isn’t exactly squishy. Feels normal-ish most of the time. She poops all the time, all normal; eats and drinks if she can; acts completely normal. Ive tried...

I noticed one of my hens this morning moving slow, seeming unfocused and occasionally twitching her head down like she was gagging, and her crop looked huge. I caught her, and her crop feels like a water balloon with a bit of scratch in it, but her breath doesn't smell sour. She is otherwise...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) I have a Speckled Sussex pullet, Thelma, who is feeling very poorly. She’s about 10 months old. I don’t think she’s lost much weight. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. My flock caught...

TLDR: Crop issues, she passes some material and has gotten empty, but when reunited back with her flock she got plugged up again. She is molting, I've read that slows their metabolism and can create crop issues, but offer no solutions. There is NO apparent bad smell coming from her mouth. The...

As described in a separate post, I have one younger hen who has been struggling with a slow crop for coming up 2 weeks during a molt. A trip to the vet last weekend resulted in no diagnosis of impacted crop but curiosity from the vet as to whether a virus that I think took 3 hens from my flock...

Just a couple of days ago two of my pet hens got seriously injured by the neighbors dog that trespassed into our backyard, the birds had to be rushed to the vet. One of my birds got surgery along with sutures(her intestine was literally hanging out), the other got stables to close the deep bite...

This is Apricot, she’s 8 months old and lays. Yesterday morning (Wednesday 11/16) I noticed she had a very large crop, but that was after she had ate already. It was about the size of a softball. I didn’t separate her then because she was still very active and eating. I just gave her some...

Hi, I have two hens who have been having crop issues on and off for the past two weeks. Their crops have gone from impacted, to doughy, to sour, then better, to then having issues again. I’m at my wits end with this and I don’t understand what’s going on. Hen 1: Impacted -> Sour -> Better ->...

My 1 1/2 year old red sex link has laid a lot of white banded eggs. It started in the summer and I thought she was laying them because of the heat. She doesn't do as well in the heat. When the weather started cooling off she started laying normal eggs again. She has laid several thin shelled...

Lemon, our beloved pet chicken, has been sick for over 8 weeks. I've tried nearly everything, but she continues to decline. No bird vets available in the area, so I really need your help! Picture of healthy Lemon (scroll down for pictures of sick Lemon) Main problem: Slow crop / crop...

Medicine being science and art, what sort of parameters do you consider to decide pushing the necessary feeding volume to gain weight (when critical) but the crop is slow to empty? I am 4 weeks in to support care of a 4 month young Langshan. Very long story but started out with either eye...

Nugget is a 3 year old Novagen and is the last of my first batch of hens. As a first time owner I started with only three so I wouldnt be overwhelmed with my new experience. I have read this site since day one and truly appreciate all of the knowledge here and I continue to learn things here...

I have an ISA Brown hen-almost 3 years old. Brought inside a few weeks ago with unknown issue- has recovered well with some tlc until now. Believe she has a very slow/sour crop-it is very large and very squishy. She had fluid coming out of her beak when I put her on her side for a few minutes to...

On Feb 26 my 5 month old Silkie Pullet was discovered to have a large tennis ball sized, watery, gritty crop. I took her to a vet who said her digestive system had shut down and she had no hope. Luckily a member of my chicken FB groups had treated chickens with similar symptoms (coincidentally...

Hello, I need a little assistance? He over gorged himself on food one morning 4 days, ago. He ended up with a blockage the same day, it took two days to get rid of the blockage. I found plastic in the wood chips so I suspect it was the cause of the blockage. I did the 24 hour wait to see if his...

My 4 month old pomeranian pouter pigeon has a slow crop. He will stand up really tall and inflate his crop but unlike the other pigeons he seems to have a heard time deflating it almost like he is holding his breath and his stomach starts to move when he does deflate the crop he seems to feel...

Hi All! I'm new to raising chickens and this is my first time posting on this site. I've read a bunch of topics related to the issue I'm having though, and figured I might as well put it out there! I have an 8 week old Black Australorp with a distended, watery and grainy feeling crop. It has...

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