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Jools

Joined: 28 Jul 2006
Posts: 1028
Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 8:49 am Post subject: Help please!

fenella's not well.

i can feel a load of food in her crop. she's quiet and her head's a bit droopy. she didn't eat or drink much yesterday (that i saw) and spent the day just standing around, yet she seemed alert.

i've managed to get some water down her today (just a couple of teaspoons or so). what else can i do?

should i try and massage the food back up? if so, how? hold her upside down and do it?

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 9:04 am Post subject:
sour crop? upside down massage out would maybe work try natural yogurt also for any bad bacterior in there

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 9:06 am Post subject:

Get a small quantity of thin cooking oil down her neck and then massage the crop. She sounds as though she's crop bound.

You haven't got her bedded down on hay have you? They quite often pick strands up and this can be the cause of the condition.

All the best.

Probably not sour crop, as you can feel food packed tightly in the crop and you don't mention the foul smell that is associated with it.

Jools

Joined: 28 Jul 2006
Posts: 1028
Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 9:22 am Post subject:
thanks. I did hold her upside down and massaged and a dark liquid came out that smelled sour. unfortunately, she didn't make it. <sigh>

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 9:23 am Post subject:

As much vinegar down her throat as you can get her to swallow, massage around. Hold her upside down (gently) and allow any liquid to fall out mouth, then........natural yogurt (be warned - very messy), and then pop her down to get over all that. Repeat at next feed time.

Cured 2 with this sour crop this year.

make sure your grass isnt too long - some times it gets wound into a tight little ball in their crop.

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 9:40 am Post subject:
sorry to hear least you know what to do for next time

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 10:27 am Post subject:
Always sad. Trouble with chooks is, they tend to hide their problems until it's too late to help them. sigh

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
Posts: 312
Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 11:35 am Post subject:
That's a shame, poor Fenella!

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 5:54 pm Post subject:
bu**er

Jools

Joined: 28 Jul 2006
Posts: 1028
Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 6:44 pm Post subject:

misty07 wrote:

sorry to hear least you know what to do for next time

Yeah. I'm still very much a novice. Only had chickens for a year and not come across this before. It's all experience, but a sad way to gain it.

She was a lovely little thing.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 6:49 pm Post subject:
Its just typical of all Norwegian Blues. You look after them as best you can and then they break your heart.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45616
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 6:53 pm Post subject:
happens to us all ,not in the same way but you know what i mean

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 6:54 pm Post subject:

Minamoo

Joined: 05 Feb 2008
Posts: 1231

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 11 10:29 pm Post subject:

Oh I'm so sorry about Fenella! I was just telling DH about her the other day and saying how I wished I could have a pocket chicken. Our LS Marmaduke was really sick a couple of months ago but luckily it was an infection and a dose of antibiotics saw it off. It was hard enough trying to crop feed her through a tube. I would hate to try to empty her crop afterwards! (Not to mention the fact that I wouldn't be able to hold her. She weighs at least 4kg!)

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