Coconut oil for sour crop??

Chikenlover3728

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The best way to check would be remove the food and water at night, then feel her crop first thing to see if it's emptied.
If she's got access to food/water, then she's likely eating/drinking before you go check.
Woke up her crop still has chunks doesn’t feel like the sour crops I dealt with so ima guess it impacted crop?
 

Chikenlover3728

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Noticed she didn’t go for her feed but all the other chickens did since they had no food she was the only one who didn’t want it she rather tried getting out to eat more grass.
 

Chikenlover3728

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Is there any easy way to give the oil? In the morning she was hungry so she just ate it from my hand and massaged her crop and it got smaller, now I’m trying to give it to her and she won’t budge tried opening her beak and giving it to her but it slides off and falls from her beak.
 

Chikenlover3728

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This is how her poop looks. It’s hard to give her coconut oil. Would it be possible to give it to her in bread or some other way.
 

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RoyalChick

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Easiest way to give coconut oil if she won't eat it from your hand is to have little chunks frozen or cold so it is white and hard and then pop them in their throat like you would give a pill. She will swallow it like a pill because it is solid and then it will melt to oil in her crop.
 

Chikenlover3728

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Easiest way to give coconut oil if she won't eat it from your hand is to have little chunks frozen or cold so it is white and hard and then pop them in their throat like you would give a pill. She will swallow it like a pill because it is solid and then it will melt to oil in her crop.
Yeah gave it to her in the fridge and broke it into bits she ate it in the morning but now she won’t budge. So that’s the only way? It’s not possible to give it to them in it’s liquid form in a piece of bread? If so then I’ll give it to her in chunks.
 

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