We have a 4 year old hen who hadn't been roosting for a couple of nights. The morning after the 3rd night, we pulled her inside and started feeling around and noticed her crop was rock solid. We withheld food and throughout the day her crop started to feel more pliable, like it was full of chicken feed or something. She drank a ton of water and was acting normal otherwise. We started to massage her crop 4x a day. Her crop was solid the next morning as well. We fed her a scrambled egg after about 24 hours of no food. Her droppings to this point had been consistently watery with some solid brown matter in it. Her crop became pliable the second day as well. The third day, in the morning, her crop is pliable (feels like its full of feed). We syringed some olive oil and started massaging more frequently. Her crop hasn't changed in size. Worried and overwhelmed with information, I tried to induce vomiting using techniques I read online and saw in videos and ultimately failed to make her vomit. She has been eating and drinking less today than the previous two days.
Can anyone help make sense of this? There seem to be a myriad of possibilities: impacted, doughy, sour, slow crop. At this point I don't know what to do.
Can anyone help make sense of this? There seem to be a myriad of possibilities: impacted, doughy, sour, slow crop. At this point I don't know what to do.
