Trying to Treat Impacted Crop/Water Belly in our chicken. 

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@@susie14 I alternate my solution each day. Some days water w/ apple cider vinegar, other days just the Rooster Booster, and then other days I go with just probiotics. I avoid mixing more than one at the day. Afraid it may taste bad to them or something.

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Sorry for your lose, sadly she lost her life from a raccoon.

@@Homesteadactivities I'm so so very sorry. That breaks my heart. Poor baby.

We usually rub out chickens with olive oil, and cook at 375. Joking aside we did try that no luck.

@@Homesteadactivities lol!! I see. I hope your chicken survived. Definitely worth trying if nothing else is helping

@Homestead: I'm so glad you were able to save her using this method (before the raccoon attack)!! I'm sorry for your loss, in the end! :( @Bonnie: You’re so right. We actually just lost our chicken last week and it was so sad. She had an impacted crop from some grass, but her crop was still soft / squishy and wouldn’t empty the fluids. We tried massaging and olive oil for 2 full days days and her crop wouldn’t empty. I was able to partially empty her crop by getting her to throw up, but I was so worried about aspiration that stopped halfway and didn’t empty it fully. It helped a lot, but I didn’t get her completely emptied out. Another full day of massaging and olive oil, but she was starting to deteriorate and her crop would still remain completely full. I couldn’t get it fully empty until a 2nd attempt to get her to throw up another day later. When her crop was finally completely cleared out after the 2nd time, it wasn’t a TON of grass, but it also wasn’t a tiny amount and she was still pretty young (about 10 weeks old). She aspirated a tiny bit getting her crop fully cleared and then it went downhill from there. She held on for another day and a half, but she then fully aspirated when she threw up on her own and passed. If I knew at the beginning what I know now, I think I would not have tried to get her to throw up and instead opted to surgically clear her crop. Not pretty/easy, but safer. There are a lot of videos on RU-vid that show how to do this and I purchased all the necessary tools to do it. The only reason I don’t do it right away is because my husband was out of town and my kids aren’t old enough to help hold. I was going to do that in the first place, but all of the videos watching people do this was when the impaction was a hard, HUGE ball of obstruction. Hers was never like that, so I tried the throw up method and regret it. I mainly write this for anyone who is reading/watching this now is in an emergency situation and looking for advise. Exactly as this video shows, take your time and go VERY SLOW and give your chicken several breaks. Try and do very small amounts at a time and not too much at once. The 2nd time that gave us problems, it was so much coming up at once at the end and I didn't have a good way to cut it off and give her a break to breathe quickly enough. Just like this video says, sometimes you don't have much of a choice. No chicken vets around here (they're hard to find), and had already tried massaging and olive oil for days. It was either try this or they die.

I've done this many, many times to my hens without any problems and great success. And they always feel much better afterwards. It's a very common practice.

Yes it’s very hard to treat and sorry for your loss, that’s why we try to make these videos to inform and try to help people, then best thing to do is going to a farm vet but in this case we didn’t have one any wear near us so massaging was the best bet.

@@Homesteadactivities yeah thing is we had no clue it was sour crop until it was too late. She threw up and then died shortly after. I knew it was sour crop cause I've dealt with it once before. Yeah its hard to find a good avian vet. I luckily found a house call one, she's amazing. Sadly it was too late.

@@lindavesely945 you guys are in our prayers and sorry for the loss, we lost 5 of our chickens from a raccoon attack not to long ago.

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It acts like a vest pocket for the temporary storage of food. When a chicken picks up food with its beak, its tongue pushes the food to the back of its mouth into the esophagus, which is like a water slide from the mouth to the crop.

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Infection in the chicken crop. Aka second stomach

So sorry to hear that. It is very common with the chickens especially when the companies sell really cheap food for the chickens. A lot of our chickens got sick from tractor supply feed.

We are sorry to hear that :( water belly affects a lot of chickens over time especially the older they get.

@@Homesteadactivities yeah it was almost 4years old