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He is so cute!

Well, I don't know you, but I'm so proud of you! And I chime in with you on how wonderful and knowledgeable and helpful and kind people here on this board can be.

Thinking of you... How did it go?

Do a search for "sour crop."

Thank you everyone. She was indeed my last chick from the little flock of chicks we brought with us when we moved from one house to another after my divorce. My daughter was 12 at the time, and she talked me into getting the chickens before we moved, so we had them living in the bathtub while...

The vet was open for emergencies and I took her in. I knew I wouldn't be able to do the maggots myself. She had approximately 20 maggots in the folds around her inner thighs and they had eaten into the muscle there. They probably started when the diarrhea irritated her skin. The vet said...

Thank you. I'm just so sad about this. She's my last one and maybe because of that she's more important to me than all the others have been. It's really hard to let her go, and I was willing to let her pass on her own as she seemed peaceful and restful, but the maggots just tip this over...

My chicken is dying and she has maggots, and I don't know what to do. She got diarrhea after sour crop and was eating but only a little. I've been force-feeding her today, but she has her eyes closed most of the time and most of the time she lies down in the corner of the run. Starting...

Now I know why hen had been flinging food around her coop - overgrown upper beak. She had trouble picking up the food. I never noticed the beak until now, and I feel so guilty. She's not recovering well from sour crop now, and trimming the beak is probably the last of my worries right now...

Not sure where to put this - how do you clip or trim an overgrown beak? It's pretty long and I never noticed it before. I feel like such an idiot for not noticing it before. I'm only noticing it now because I'm trying to hand feed her. (Not much luck with that, though, and it looks like...

We recently went through this. Here's my account of our experience. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=196991 An update is that she is now back to her normal energy level, but not eating very much. She seems hungry, and is pecking around the run, and clearly wants me...

I'll try some oatmeal. So far she won't even look at what I put into dishes. Will also try blueberry yogurt. You are right - just keep trying. I'm out at that coop a billion times a day! But at least the crop is empty. Man THAT was awful.

My hen has gotten over sour crop (yay) but is rejecting all food, mashes, yogurt, egg yolk, everything, and vitamin water. The only thing she's going for is grass (reaching through run wire) - which is how she got impacted in the first place. I can tell she is starving - what to do...

My hen has successfully gotten over sour crop, and now is rejecting all food, except for trying to get to grass outside of the run. I think that grass is what caused this is the first place. I have fed her crumbles for a long, long time - most of her life -- because at some point all the...

The crop is at the base of the neck/front of the chest.

We recently had the gurgling issue and it was sour crop. I'm not saying that's what you have, but does your bird have a swollen, mushy crop?

A few notes to anyone dealing with sour crop: Many people on these pages recommend doing a crop flush using a tube. You can find directions for that method by searching "sour crop". We did not use the tube down the gullet approach. I didn't feel that I could manage it, and I felt badly about...

Update -- Two days since crop crisis (see above for the whole drama), and her crop is MUCH smaller. I fed oil/bread yesterday, feed soaked in water, tried yogurt, mashed egg yolk with no luck. She's definitely perkier. I'm not assuming that she's out of danger yet, but I'm cautiously optimistic.

Threehorses, Thank you! She was not gurgling this morning, and was interested in the tiny bit of bread soaked in olive oilbread/oil I gave her. What concerns me most is that I think she still has material in her crop. Do you think that the treatment you describe might be enough to help...

Anyone have any ideas?