Noticed the other day Ms. Dolly here wasn't out and about doing her chicken thing. Had to bring her inside yesterday to give her the ole chicken check up.
Then this morning you could tell her crop didn't empty overnight. Chickens don't have a gag reflex and they can't throw up so......
Time to go in manually Dr.
What we got here is your standard case of sour crop. If left untreated, we will most certainly lose her. This is one of my 5 year old hens to. Shes a good one.
@Old_Paint y'all or any other chicken owners on here ever deal with this? This will be my third time in a few years. First time we lost a hen to it. Second time I learned to kind of "flush" them out and drain them. And it worked. So thats what i'm doing this time.
I take a dropper and give her a couple mLs of water. From there I lightly massage the crop, loosening/breaking up whatever the heck is in there.
Flip her upside down over something you don't care about and away from the house LOL cause its about to get NASTY!!!
I'm not sure they can even breathe right when you do this, so I do it in like 15-20 second intervals.
Hang in there ole girl, Hopefully we're gonna make it all better.