A sick chicken gets some ultrasound help

We’ve begun keeping chickens, as so many people have I guess. Our girls are a couple months old now and get lots of love and attention from the family. So everyone was sad and worried when one of them developed a “sour crop”. To explain: the crop is like a secondary stomach located at the bottom of the neck. The crop helps predigest the chickens food. The chickens occasionally intake very small pebbles which go into the crop and help mechanically break up food. When the crop becomes stuck due to impacted matter not passing through it can become “sour crop”. This can cause the chicken harm and ultimately great pain and worse.

One of our favorite birds, a very robust large white chicken. I just begun today to show signs of sauerkraut. She was very inactive and was making a sad for Loren. Well, we’ve never heard before. She also wanted to sit constantly. We decided to give her an ultrasound application on the crop and the results were astounding.

During the ultrasound, the bird went from tense and cawing pathetically to pushing into the device in an embrace. She then became relaxed and began to fall asleep on it. Her crop is a bit smaller and lower. I attribute this to decreased tension. We will see how she is tomorrow but this is a rapid change for the better.

Thanks for all your posts and Sterling being the spark behind this community. I’m new and appreciate the community citizen scientist aspect of this community.

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