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She is much improved this morning. I still think she has something in her crop. She pooped 7 times and it actually has a little substance to it. She was also very hungry. Gave her some mash and grapes.

Yesterday I gave her a Docusate Sodium 100mg tablet. I massaged her crop for a count of 30 about every 30 minutes. I also have her some scrambled egg with anti fungal cream and baytril in it. She didn't touch it.

I still need to study up on how to flush her crop out, in case we need to do that. Worst case scenario, I've seen where they do surgery to clean it out. I really hope we won't have to do that.

I will put her back out with the flock today, but will keep a close eye on her as I think she still has a problem. I feel like I have bought her some time.

I will try to make a post about this experience later today. Maybe title it, "Crop issues? Share your experience here". Maybe we can get some dialogue going on it.

Thank you @fuzzi for the information you shared with me. 💗
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A least she made it onto the paper 6 out of 7 times...lol
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Edit: make that 8.
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It's a busy morning at our place.

Hubs is cutting off more of the stumps from the 25 poplar trees he cut down. These things are so big.
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Next stump! I was out in time to see him pull this one over. He's dead dog tired by the time he finishes chainsawing through these.

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Just checked my girl. Her crop feels like it is back to normal. She is active and eating and was unhappy I picked her up... :gig
Thankfully I only had to administer one Docusate Sodium 100mg pill and do periodic crop massages. So glad to know what I should try first if this happens again. 💗


Thank you for all, for the great advice and good wishes offered! 💞
 
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