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Hi Theresa,
What are the symptoms? For me, its always hard to tell if its sour crop or impacted. Supposedly with sour crop it smells really bad.
I've read about flushing with soda bicarb. Have you tried anything like that? I actually sort of treat them both the same, if I'm not sure. If I have Baytril.....I give that if they seem really sick. I've given nystatin before, but it didn't seem to help.
I've noticed that they seem to produce alot of mucous when they have an impacted crop. It feels squishy, but when you get the mucous moving, then you find the big walnut-sized hard mass.
Sorry if I'm rambling. If I were you, I would isolate her and stop feeding her anything hard for a couple days. I tear off little pieces of bread and soak them in olive oil and feed that to the sick one. If they don't eat it, then I get a 3cc syringe full of olive oil and put it far down in their throats, every day for several days. I also give them Dannon's plain yogurt with a part of a probiotic capsule stirred up in it. I also give them Papaya juice to hopefully break up any mass. Watch for what kind of stools she has. Give her water.
And I massage the heck out of the crop.......at least 3-4 times a day. I think massaging, oil and yogurt are the best first steps.
I hope I haven't confused you. I have a hen in isolation now with a big crop too. Fortunately, she loves the oil-soaked bread. Just don't give too much bread.

Hi Theresa,
You can use vegetable oil. We mostly use olive oil here, so that's what I always use on them. I feel like its much healthier than plain corn or canola oil............but those oils wouldn't work too.
I know its hard to describe what you feel (we all perceive things differently).......but is her crop enlarged at all? .........or are you going on smell and just her acting sick?
My chickens with crop problems have always pooped little green balls, which improved when their GI tracts started working better again.
I think the yogurt and probiotics help alot. The yogurt MUST have "live cultures".
Chickens can have a number of problems in their GI tracts, and they can cause the whole length of it to shut down........which can make diagnosing difficult.
If you do start giving her Baytril, be sure to give her yogurt several hours away from when you give the antibiotic.
How much baytril do you usually give? I realized with my last sick chicken that I was giving ALOT of it, compared to what I read on the internet.......but that's the dose my Avian vet told me to use on a sick chicken several years ago.
I've also been wondering if I should let the chickens try to heal themselves, with minimal interference from me. Maybe just by taking your chicken out of the yard and keeping her in a crate, and giving her less food, she might start to heal. I hope I'm not confusing you!

Its sort of like when we get an intestinal flu-type thing. Seems the best thing for us humans is to just rest and quit eating for awhile, but taking fluids.
I'm rambling. Sorry! Good luck with your little one. But the probiotics/yogurt are very important and they can't hurt.