Chicken bald back

[gavclojak]

Poor fauna has sour crop, must be early onset as there was no smell, just lots and lots of brown fluid that I managed to get out of her yesterday morning, she went to bed last night with a still slightly enlarged crop, I have restricted food and gave her a tiny amount of water yesterday and half an hour after her meds today. I massaged her crop and have started her on a course of nystatin.....5ml twice daily,

This morning her crop was completely flat! Phew I hope that's a good sign?

I plan to give her a tablespoon of wet mash this afternoon then Annr before bed, is there anything I'm missing?

[mollyripkim]

Sounds like you are doing all the right things. I have a greedy bantam orp who had it once, like yours just liquid with no smell, the only other thing I did was give her some probiotics. Touch wood it hasn't reappeared so hope Fauna stays well too.

[gavclojak]

Thanks mollyripkin, I have given her three tiny meals of a tablespoon of mash mixed with water and she seems fine so I am hoping it was a one off, problem is I am back to work on Monday so will have to leave her with food/water

[Beantree]

We restrict ours to only water for at least 24 hours Gavclojak, sometimes 48 hours. They can go weeks without food so it's not a problem. Any food you give can potentially fuel the sour crop so it won't be cured. We going to be trying Avipro Avian on a cockerel we have with sour crop at the moment, but we won't use it until he has been thoroughly flushed with water.

[gavclojak]

I wondered where you had been beantree, I know you know a lot about this condition.

She has had a flat crop in the AM for a week now and has been on nystatin for a week. I withheld food and water for 24 hours then introduced water and small amounts of wet mash, kept her on that for a few days then just mash now she has access to mash and pellets as we a introducing them to the big girls.

I'm hoping I caught it very early as there wasn't any smell although I know you don't always get that but she seems very well apart from shivering a bit which I hope is due to the sudden drop in tempreture and not any underlying condition.

I'm waiting for the poop sample to be tested too.....always something to worry about should be my catchphrase

[Beantree]

The shivering will be due to a lack of fuel. Our cockerel is inside under a heat lamp at the moment. He came in with hypothermia, which was a surprise as it hasn't really got cold yet. We have contradicting symptoms. He had a full crop which wasn't shifting overnight. The first poo was a slimy sour crop one. We are watering him only and massaging to get rid of a heap of pellets. He's just had Nutri-Drops because he couldn't stand this morning. Walking about now but he's put himself back under the lamp.