help my chicken won’t hold her head straight.

[shellirae]

I have a year and a half hand that is holding her head to the side and found a big lump on her chest

 

[ChicNmom]

Does her crop feel full of food or squishy with fluids?
Is she eating? Pooping? Laid an egg recently?

I've never seen the outside of a crop look like that. I can't tell if it's been bothering her for a while and she's been picking at it or just what exactly is going on there.


Here is some info on crop treatment.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

Also I would clean the exterior and put some plain (no pain medication added) antibiotic ointment on it.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Did you wash her? Why do her feathers look wet?

 

[Eggcessive]

Could she have been attacked by something that hurt her head, neck, and caused abrasions on the crop? Do you have any bullies or roosters? She looks wet, so did you wet her? I would spray or dab her wound with a disinfectant or saline. Then apply plain antibiotic ointment twice daily. She may have wry neck, a neurological sign of head or neck injury. Human vitamin E 400 IU and human B complex 1/2 tablet daily can be given orally to help. Get her drinking some fluids, electrolytes, or sugar water.

 

[shellirae]

Does her crop feel full of food or squishy with fluids?
Is she eating? Pooping? Laid an egg recently?

I've never seen the outside of a crop look like that. I can't tell if it's been bothering her for a while and she's been picking at it or just what exactly is going on there.


Here is some info on crop treatment.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

Also I would clean the exterior and put some plain (no pain medication added) antibiotic ointment on it.

 

[shellirae]

She seem to be normal the day before I noticed her turning her neck a little bit when I went by her, but it didn’t seem anything abnormal and yesterday I saw it was really turned over and she was Hart having a hard time keeping it upright first thing I did was check her crop and was astonished of the huge hard mass which was her crop and the top was like a healed over scab that was super thick. With a yellow outer area by the skin. I didn’t even notice anything of this as. it was tucked underneath her feathers to rule out it being any kind of crusted dirt or food or rocks possibly it was matted i soaked her in warm water, but it didn’t even penetrate the hard skin skin on top was so callous super hard I thought it was a impacted crop so did all of the things massaging it with oil turning her upside down to see if I could help it, but it couldn’t even be massaged it was nothing squishy. It was a solid ball.
So I started treating it as a an impacted crop so did all of the things massaging it with oil turning her upside down to see if I could help massage it, giving her olive oil but it couldn’t even be massaged. At that point I saw. my only solution was to try to surgically open her crop see if it was impacted. I knew if I didn’t do something she was going to die. I researched and watched other people do videos on how to perform it after watching others do the procedure.
I had a friend help me and we gathered all the necessary supplies from the tractor supply and made a small incision in her crop, but there was nothing in there. We filled around the crop and it was empty and very bloody, which people said if it’s an impacted crop, it shouldn’t bleed hardly at all She totally was fine laying there letting us do this, not having any reaction to any pain And alert, closing her eyes sometimes
Once we had her open and saw there wasn’t any impact of the crop that we could tell we called our veterinary clinic at CSU vet Hospital told him what was going on but for them pop pre to see her was gonna be $470 at that point I am hysterically, crying, not knowing what to do I realize I would have to euthanize her.
I’m still perplexed at what this was and couldn't do an autopsy.
emotionally i could not deal with doing an autopsy. I feel so horrible that I did not even notice it, I didn’t notice any behaviors other than her neck she was acting fine