Chicken with extremely swollen chest

[Raylac44]

i have a black silkie hen just over a year old with a huge swollen squishy chest. I do not think it is an impacted crop because it is very soft. It is huge almost half the size of the hen. She has always been smaller than the other birds. I just noticed this today it seems warm to the touch but she seems to be eating and drinking and even laying eggs. I have had chickens my whole life and have never seen this before or know what todo.

 

[WolfGirlMagic]

Sounds like perhaps sour crop

 

[Saaniya]

i have a black silkie hen just over a year old with a huge swollen squishy chest. I do not think it is an impacted crop because it is very soft. It is huge almost half the size of the hen. She has always been smaller than the other birds. I just noticed this today it seems warm to the touch but she seems to be eating and drinking and even laying eggs. I have had chickens my whole life and have never seen this before or know what todo.

Sounds to me like sour crop or slow crop can you smell her beak if there's any fermented sour smell? Coming ?


I suggest to give some unfiltered apple cider in water and massage and some yoghurt with kefir help moving things

If it didn't goes down then you should probably start sour crop medicinal treatment with any Antifungal Med or Copper Sulfate (but copper Sulfate is good but very careful course)

 

[WolfGirlMagic]

Does the chickens breath smell yeasty or fermented?
Do you hear gases or gurgling when you manipulate the crop?

 

[AmyJane725]

It could also be water belly, but chickens with that usually don't feel very well. Does she act just fine? Happy and alert?

Also, is it her entire chest that is all huge and squishy, or just the right side?

 

[BugStalker]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/ might help

 

[Raylac44]

I work a vet clinic so I brought her in! Sour crop. Called Washington state university vet school and talked to the exotic specialist on steps.

 

[AmyJane725]

View attachment 1792987 I work a vet clinic so I brought her in! Sour crop. Called Washington state university vet school and talked to the exotic specialist on steps.

Wow. That crop is MASSIVE! What did the doctor tell you to do?

 

[Raylac44]

Wow. That crop is MASSIVE! What did the doctor tell you to do?

It’s huge!!! She is acting so normal! Eating drinking pooping and even laying eggs! I think what caused it was a food change, normally they are pellets but the store was out so I just got crumbles. We put a pressure wrap on like a compression bra for 7 days and some antibiotics then we will see how she is!

 

[Mary cb]

My hen has a stolen croup. Is the chicken in stress?