Ruptured Crop

I have had very little experience of this injury, in both cases the injury was minor and high up in the crop so it mended itself while I gave only sufficient food and fluids to fall below the injury line.

This is what Les Stocker has to say on the subject in his book Practical Wildlife Care (available from Amazon)

This is from Les Stocker's book Wildlife Practical Wildlife Care. It might help if you take the baby to a vet:

Ruptured Crop

The injury seen in pigeons but apparently not in other species is a rupture of the crop. Usually the crop is so full that the slightest knock seems to explode it. Injury may be obvious with corn seen coming from the defect. ...sometimes the injury is quite expansive and often contaminated with food and , sometimes, the lesions of trichomoniasis. However, if the defects are thoroughly cleaned and sutured most birds make a complete recovery. It should be treated as an emergency as the bird will have been unable to eat or drink since the injury occurred. It could be severely dehydrated warranting extra fluids.

A crop rupture involves two layers, the actual lining of the crop and the fargile skin over the top of it. Both have to be sutured, preferably under anaesthetic. Broad-spectrum antibiotics can be given, usually long-acting amoxycillin at 250 mg/kg daily.

If you go to this link and scroll down you will find a graphic pictorial account of a torn crop being mended. It is not for the faint hearted , but it demonstrates how bad things can look and how they can be repaired:

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Cynthia