Hello,
I have an older hen (8+ years) that has quickly developed what shows to me to be sour crop, and possibly more. I first observed it around noon yesterday. I didn't know at the time what I was dealing with, so I set up a dog crate I use for treatment and moved her to it for observation. She was a bit skittish, so it took a little manuevering to catch her. While carrying her out of the run and to her prepared crate, she started vomiting out some fluid. She probably did this 3 times during our walk to her crate. I was only holding her enough to safely move her and definitely wasn't trying to do any more than that (I now know that I was likely, inadvertently, pressing on her crop, but I'd never had a situation like this before). Anyway, she was safely moved to the crate and after she sneezed a time or two, was settled in with no further drama.
Now, I supspect sour crop, or that's probably my best guess to go off of right now. She has watery and yellow stools - yellow like an egg yolk color - and is still puffed up. My plan was to give her the ointment 2x a day for seven days (following the article), but I'm nervous about handling her and causing inadvertent vomiting while trying to give her the medication. I don't want her to asperate on any fluid, but she's not going to just let me hold her either. I feel like I'm going to need to balance holding her enough to medicate, but not in such a way that she vomits again.
Any pro tips to share?
I have an older hen (8+ years) that has quickly developed what shows to me to be sour crop, and possibly more. I first observed it around noon yesterday. I didn't know at the time what I was dealing with, so I set up a dog crate I use for treatment and moved her to it for observation. She was a bit skittish, so it took a little manuevering to catch her. While carrying her out of the run and to her prepared crate, she started vomiting out some fluid. She probably did this 3 times during our walk to her crate. I was only holding her enough to safely move her and definitely wasn't trying to do any more than that (I now know that I was likely, inadvertently, pressing on her crop, but I'd never had a situation like this before). Anyway, she was safely moved to the crate and after she sneezed a time or two, was settled in with no further drama.
Now, I supspect sour crop, or that's probably my best guess to go off of right now. She has watery and yellow stools - yellow like an egg yolk color - and is still puffed up. My plan was to give her the ointment 2x a day for seven days (following the article), but I'm nervous about handling her and causing inadvertent vomiting while trying to give her the medication. I don't want her to asperate on any fluid, but she's not going to just let me hold her either. I feel like I'm going to need to balance holding her enough to medicate, but not in such a way that she vomits again.
Any pro tips to share?
