Hello, I've been treating a hen for sour crop since Sunday. It's the first time I've had to treat for it for any of my hens. Dominique is part of a 4-chicken backyard flock--no longer free range because of hawks and bird flu. She's about 8 years old. I won't euthanize unless they are in extreme pain, so that's only happened once in my flock, and so I'm not ready to euthanize her--she's more of a pet than a farm animal at this point, I admit. Here's how I've treated her: I restricted her access to food and massaged her crop. I tested to see if it emptied overnight, but although it seemed to improve, today it's very full again. I have been trying to flush her crop by carefully giving her water with a tiny bit of epsom salts and water in a syringe. I tried molasses in her water for 8 hours. I gave her plain yogurt. I also gave her scrambled eggs. She didn't seem interested in either. When I massage her crop, even though I'm massaging downward, it makes her vomit so I tip her for 5-10 seconds and raise her up. I know that's risky, but she's vomiting even when I massage downward. I just made a batch of acidified copper sulfate to add to her water--took a few days for it to come. And I've received an order of probiotics but since she had such a full crop today, I'm not sure I should put food out with the probiotics on top (not the water based kind). Here are my questions-- Should I be feeding her, and if so, what and how often? Should she have access to dirt or the pine bedding? I don't see or feel pine bedding in her crop or vomit--but I do think it looks really muddy. And it still has scratch in it even though she hasn't had scratch since Sunday morning. Are there any other simple solutions? She's an old hen so I don't want to do anything pricey to keep a chicken alive who is already 8 years old. I also don't want to put her down as long as she's feeling okay. Also, I'm going out of town tomorrow and have a house sitter who has tended my chickens with great dedication, but I don't want to make his job too hard. Any timely advice would be appreciated.