If you are refering to impacted crop that is easily fixed you can either hold them upside down and squeeze their crop like milking a cow. I chose to open my hens crop it was very easy to do i did it with a exacto knife and i sew it back together with black sewing thread.
My hens crop was too impacted to squeeze it she had eaten long grass blades and them had tangled in her crop.
I had a roo with a crop full of corn and i squeezed all the corn out and he was fine.
Sad news
I wish I had known what it was before it was too late to help Charlie.
I know. It is so sad.
Might be good to do a remedies thread and link it to the stickie --impacted crop---
Very good idea.
If you do it for a remedy instead of saying the black thread like i used just say catgut or whatever you call the stuff you sew up wounds.
The thread was all i had at the time and i wanted to save my hen. The exacto knife is a good surgical tool it cuts clean and fast i opened the crop very easily with little bleeding.
Used peroxide to clean the surgery site, wound and alcohol to sterlize the knife,needle,thread.
Catgut's actually not the preferred suture material anymore; too many animals react to it. Most suture is synthetic now.
Soak in alcohol for at least ten minutes to sterilize instruments, not just a quick dip. Boiling works well too.
When using hydrogen peroxide, make sure you don't get it in any skin pockets... like abscesses or maybe the open crop... the foaming can create serious problems with healing. If you do, flush liberally with diluted Iodine solution (not tincture, not scrub) and that usually takes care of it.
Jay
Sorry to hear about the loss of your Rooster.
I've added this to the reference thread under anecdotal remedies >>anything you want to add or clarify....
Where is it? I looked under the sticky at the top of the forum but I must have missed it.
It's about the 10th post on the reference thread...2nd stickie.