Getting Our Chicken to Regurgitate - Managing Sour Crop in Our Copper Maran Hen 

Not so sure that letting the other chickens consume what the sick one regurgitated is a good idea since the sour crop may be caused by bad bacteria that could infect any chicken that ate what was regurgitated. Just a thought you might consider doing that outside of the chicken yard just in case it could be spread to the others chickens

Yeast is infectious and you allowed the other chickens to eat the infected crop fluid that came out...that could possibly be your problem.

People are subscribing. That normally doesn't happen. I thought I better look into it and found out a barfing chicken was to blame. +The Grass-fed Homestead - Your chicken fared much better than ours did with sour crop. We caught it too late in the game and couldn't get the crop to loosen up enough before the chicken died. Nice job guys. And you're still not off the hook for letting Ashley pick out all your chickens.

4:30 I felt a relief! My kids' pet chicken has sour crop. So we massaged her. I am going to do it tomorrow as well and give her ACV water.

Oh man I have had to this plenty of times. I always separate at the first signs and get that Yogurt, apple cider vinegar and olive oil into their system. Always check for moldy of spoil feed.

I'm so upset. We had a favorite hen with this issue, did the massage, and she aspirated and died. I've now found out this should only be done as a last resort and for no more than a few seconds. There should really be more of a warning with this. I can't get over the fact that I did this to her, and she probably would've been fine with other measures. I'm heartbroken.

Loved White House on a Hill. Thanks for sharing. As always appreciate your channel. Felt sorry for the poor chicken with sour crop. Had me researching the net for clues. Hoping for the best.

Thank you so much. Your video was great explaining and showing how its done. I have one I have to do tomorrow. I'm going to feed all the chickens yogurt and scrambled eggs in the morning. I don't have a separate place to take her away from the flock.

I have never heard of sour crop before. Even after raising chickens myself and my grandparents raising them for Murray McMurray Hatchery. You're going to have me researching more now. :) My Mom currently has a small flock and will keep my eyes open for this potential problem. Thank you for this video, great information and greatly appreciate it! :)

You know by letting the other chooks eat her vomit you’ve just introduced them to the same candida bacteria that made her crop sour, right???.... common sense people!!!!

I'm sorry for your loss 😔 i noticed my hen throwing up when i picked her up, i hope it isn't to serious, her breath did smell sort it sour, she is pretty active and walking currently. 🙏🏻

Trying to learn...first, why would you want other chickens to eat what the sick one regurgitated? Won't it then infect their crops? Also, have you considered adding some garlic to the apple cider vinegar and yogurt additions?

Please let me know how you ensure they do not aspirate while doing this. I believe I’m dealing with a sour crop at the present.

ACV can make a favourable condition for sour crop to keep thriving. Yoghurt is fine for sure but acv can keep it going longer than it needs to.

I waited until after I are to watch this. Hope the ladies are feeling better. Nice closing montage!

I have not posted here since I mentioned that I was considering cancelling my poultry order. I did not cancel it, although I was very sick with Neuro Cutaneous Syndrome (aka "Morgellons") my daughter raised the 27 chickens, 8 ducks and one Tufted Roman goose. I'm feeling somewhat better (just found out about a dr in AZ who specializes in this disease, so I'm hopeful that I'll recover using his protocol. Regarding our flock. We've had some bad luck (and lots of fun, too!). Our goose turned out to be aggressive to the ducks and chickens. He killed 2 ducks and started attacking the chickens. I processed him. That was a sad and difficult task. Two days ago we lost a chicken to unknown cause. When I watched this video about your recent experience with sour crop, I immediately knew what had happened to our bird. Sorry for your troubles... but watching your video helps me understand what I can do to avoid future losses. It's wonderful to be growing more of our own food, yet there are days when farming reminds me of how fragile life is... and yet how amazingly fun and robust at the same time... focusing on the beauty... doing all I can to not beat myself up for not being perfect... Thanks for the video guys!

Others have probably mentioned tj8s, but you don't want to let the other chickens eat what is regurgitated. I am dealing with the first case of sour crop after 8 yrs. I'm sure you've gotten good advice from here out. My hen developed SC while I was gone for 2 weeks, so it had a chance to establish. Really tough to treat now.

Great channel. I've got a hen with a swollen chest, too. In a few minutes I'll be making her regurgitate for the first time. Oh boy. You made it look so easy. I hope it is.

I can take one chicken barfing, but had to close my eyes and ask the kids when it was done the second time. Ooo, next video is about marinara sauce!

Good work doctoring those sick chicks! Is that a new fishing net or did you repair your old one that busted when we were hog wrangling?!?!?

I have read you shouldn't give yoghurt to chooks with sour crop. You can ferment their grain to give them probiotics & put Apple cider vinegar in the water for probiotics.

Mine that have sour crop, which is today, just sits and I can walk up to her and pick her up. Every few hours I feed her some yogurt and give her a drink of water. I had 2 die, that I thought were egg bound so now first I look for sour crop. One of my reds that died layed the biggest egg. So big that I couldn't shut the lid on a cardboard carton, so I had to buy Styrofoam egg cartons. I sure miss her. I lost a black sex-link, a RIR, and an easter-egger

I have a red leghorn that has developed a pendulum crop. I have been massaging her crop every two hours or so. It was at first fairly firm, but now three days later, it feels like a handful of water balloon. I have aggressively massaged her crop, but I can’t get her to vomit. She’s very active, and continues to lay eggs. Historically, I have provided my girls with apple cider vinegar three times weekly in their drinking water. With this development, I have switched to daily additives of probiotics and Rooster Booster Vitamins & Electrolytes with Lactobacillus. What am I doing wrong? If only she would vomit.

I thought it standard practice to use at least the apple cider vinegar routinely; if not daily then 3-4 times per week.

So good to know about sour crop, I had no idea! Other than a full crop how do you tell they have issues? Love White House on the Hill! Your both great channels!

Is it just your Marans having problems with sour crop? I've never had the problem and I've been raising chickens for 50 years. I do remember my grandma dealing with it when her hens got into the wheat field before the cows. She fed them fermented grains with ACV and ground up cloves for a week or two. My worst problem was frostbite. I had arctic air come down and linger for about 2 weeks. I had combs & wattles frostbit. I stuck my heat lamps in the coop for extra warmth and my roosters crowded out the hens to be directly under the lamps and reached way and fried their combs! Then I lost power for 10 days and some hens who chose to stay away from the group froze to the perch and died overnight. I lofted straw about 3 ft deep for the chickens and goats to bury themselves in. Strangely, my turkeys treed themselves and did fine!

This video helped me burp/puke my chicken! Thank you!

I have used vet prescribed Terbinafine tablets for a duck with impacted crop. I don't know if it is ok meds for a chicken? I didn't have to get the duck to throw up. It was cleared up by the next day. I gave her the meds 1x a day. She cleared up completely and never had a impacted crop again. The meds are very cheap if you get them from Walmart.

Boy don't those nets come in handy.

I came for the barfing chicken. Video does not dissapoint.

We haven't had to deal with sour crop yet, but one girl has had a Bumblefoot problem for three months. Ugh!

How can I completely kill the infection. It always comes back even if I do this.

You might thinking your feed. I've seen when there's corn in feed it can cause problems. Corn is hard for them to digest if not finely ground.

I swear chickens have the weirdest chicken problems and ALMOST 59% ARE IN MY CHICKEN!

would you suggest this with younger chickens? one of mine have a really swollen crop (like 1/4th the size of them) and the rest aren’t that bad. i do not know how to respond to this situation. they are around 1 and a half months old. i have tried massaging them but it is hard since they are so small still.

Sorry about the type o. I was thinking you might want to change your feed. When you have more than with a problem, it could be your feed.

Seems you should do this outside the chicken pen so other chickens don't eat the bacteria and fungus. That will spread it.

Thanks i knew someone had advice from the community on this subject My one hen has always had a lop sided breast but not too bad But yesterday it was huge bulge out front....a bit of thought and searching its a crop problem We don't have too much grit in the yard with her could that be the problem?

Why would you allow the other chickens to eat what you just took out of a sour crop? DONT DO THAT PEOPLE! Empty the crop in a spot where others cannot get to it. Dont risk SPREADING a cause for the sour crop!

Never have seen how to deal with sour crop, good to know if I ever have a chicken that comes down with it. On the same note, being with that we are in the same region, I’m wondering if your chickens have enough access to grit-like pebbles, either in the dirt already, or if you supplement. We have to supplement where we are, because our dirt is too silty. The grit helps grind long grass/forage/feed down, lessening the chance of compaction which leads to sour crop.

Great educational video. I was wondering what concoction you used in your grain feed ? I feed mine all dry but yours was soft and moist ?? Thanks for any info you can give and will be giving my Sour Crop Chicken the massage tomorrow. By the way,did you put them on vinger and yogurt prior to burping them ?

:( RIP Tails. We lost our rooster too, Jack Daniels.

I have my first chickens and i'm a little confused about this,how you tell they have it.Also is it a good idea to give some apple cider vinegar and yogurt as a preventative?I make my on yogurt and gave them some before and they seemed to get diarehha.Ok i goggled it.It said crop should clear by morning after eating day before.Sometimes my chickens have white on there poop.Do you know what that is? I have been giving them DME about once a month for parasites(lol googled it)

The other chickens are like, your not gonna eat that?

What was the name of the episode from White House on the hill that you asked us to watch?

I have a fat chicken and everyday her crop is really big and full and yet she still eats alot is that a sign of sour crop. She still acts normal and lays eggs everyday

How did you discover the sour crop? What does it look like? We've had 6 hens for 2+ months and I want to be ready should one of ours get it. Thanks!

Fermented feed.

This is a topic I haven't seen addressed. How often do you need to do this procedure? Thanks for sharing! Blessings.

no I did not watch u make ur chicken barf.. but thank you for sharing to other chicken owners!

I have a question about one of my hens, she is a black copper Marian named Becky. She is grown and laying eggs. Her crop feels pretty full but it is full of liquid. She is still trying to eat and is very active (walking around and running with the other chickens) I just noticed it this morning. What does this mean for her and what do I do?

1:55 oh no!

Do you still have Penny ? I have not seen her in the last couple vlogs.

Will the chicken still be pooping if the crop is sour? I have a 6 week old chicken that is my largest but the crop is very full for last 3 days. Triple size compared to get sisters. I've massaged the crop but not vomited the chicken yet. She's still pooping so I'd assume food keeps moving theif her system

did you know chickens are lactose intolerant. Use dairy free yogurt for probiotics if you are going to use yogurt.

You sure it isn't a compacted crop? Some time grass will ball up in the crop and they starve to death even though the crop is full. Anytime a bird is sick I put them under heat.

There's no link below for your friends channel Dan!

Do your blue copper Marans have feathered feet? Mine don’t have any feathers on their legs or feet and its been confusing me about the breed.

Does any one know how to deal with an impacted crop i have herd that it is similar to sour crop or can cause sour crop. we have so far been massaging her crop after giving her olive oil she does regurgitate some stuff but it doesn't seem to change anything. we have also taken her of food and just giving her water with apple cider vinegar as she is still eating and i don't want her eating to make the impaction worse. is this the right thing to do? any advise would be really welcome as i am not sure we can afford the surgery and i really don't want her to die.

Get a one quart baggie and fill it a 4th full of water and add 3 nails to it then hang it in the middle of your chicken coop. 3 days later it should still be hanging there. If it falls throw it all out and repeat the prosess with new baggie, water and nails and hang it. By the 4th day it should still be hanging there. What does this do you may ask... Absolutely nothing but here in Kentucky that's what these crazy old people would be telling me to do lol.

Do you guys ferment your chickens feed? I've seen a channel on YT that says that can be the cause of sour crop and why she doesn't recommend it. Hope she feels better she is pretty..

I was eating a cheese burger and I didn’t they were going to vomit as my appetite went away 🤢

We have an albino chicken

R u serious? I don't turn on info to see someone's dead birds.

I call my chicken infirmary the "chickspital". lol :)

Do you give them supplemental grit?

What if you soak your chicken feed like Starry does?

How much ACV to H20 ratio

I think my hen has it since she has a red huge crop. It looks really irritated but none of the others a seem to have it. Does anyone know what the first signs actually are and if redness is usual? I’m nervous to do it since I have never seen this before and don’t want to have wrongly diagnosed it?

is there not a medication that you can get for them?

Never do that procedure in the pen or where other animals can eat it as that stuff is more “soured” going out then going in and good very well be the Reason you have so many “soured” chickens.

What were you mixing the yogurt with?

how do you know when they have sour crop?

What is the cause of sour crop?

I've never met the devil but if i did, i'm pretty sure he'd smell like the stuff i just squeezed out of my chickens crop

Just get to the point!

when they have this do their heads also twitch i am dealing with that right now and am new to chicken raising any advice would b so helpful thank u

In my case its a chick now what coupd i do

My cockerel had a sour crop and even though I read not to make him throw up, I've seen too many videos like this making chickens throw up that it stuck to my head and I kept thinking I had to make him throw up. I really wish I hadn't because he took a dive for the worst after he threw up and he can't keep anything down now, not even water. He probably would have been fine if I fed him a treatment for it instead of regurgitating him. These kinds of videos should be taken down. So much misinformation. 😡

Ridiculous

Bruh I’m trying to learn about sour crop screw all your other problems we don’t care

How city are you ridiculous

Make sure you check the chicken's pronouns.

How is this people sad when they die but not sad to send them to slaughter house? I'll never understand

Fail lmao