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[Steph101]

We were really worried on Friday morning, as Barbara's crop was bulging first thing, and we had found a soft shelled egg in the litter tray (never seen one before). I was frantic having ready all the stories on the internet about them sometimes needing surgery to get rid of it. After a little research, I went to the chemist to buy a syringe. and the fishing tackle shop to buy a couple of bags of white maggots. Gross!

But I'm happy to report that, after a couple more days of maggots given in the evenings doused in olive oil, and a little firm but gentle massage, all is well again! Panic over!

[Egluntyne]

Well done!

 

Mine love maggots as a treat.

[beanie3]

Well done - we had the same problem - last year. beryl had impacted crop which turned into sour crop. we had a syringe and epsom salts - we had to turn her upside to help her get it out of both ends - massage her for a week and she came though it. We also had some help from maggotts which the chickens loved.

 

We were so pleased - like you reading some of the horrifying stories was worrying.

[superjules]

Well done Steph! I haven't had that problem myself but I've heard it's not nice to have to deal with.

[emmaw298]

well done! I had the same problem a few weeks ago and its very worrying and takes a lot of TLC - the vet thought I had probably saved her life, thanks to all the advice of this website. Mabel lost a lot of weight during it and went very very pale. She is my only ex-batt not to have gone through a moult yet so I think it had quite am impact on her.. she isn't laying much still but her face has started going red again recently so things are improving. Hope yours makes a full recovery!

[queen toni]

so what exactly do you, feed them maggots in a little oil and massage the crop? anything else? i think one of our chickens has an impacted crop, we noticed it yesterday looking a lot bigger than usual, and it feels quite hard to touch.

[Egluntyne]

Read **this thread**queen toni. It is detailed there.

 

Good luck with your hen and welcome to the forum.

[queen toni]

thanks, thats really helpful!