Posts by MsLisaG

It's been over 24 hours since I first discovered her crop and it hasn't gone down. It is still bone dry in there, no liquid at all that I can tell. I can actually hear whatever gritty substance is in there grinding together when I feel...

Thanks. I will keep her in our infirmary coop by herself and see what happens.  

Hoping to get a little insight here, I'm not sure what is up with my hen. I noticed there was some poopy gunk on my 1 yr old silkie hen's butt, so I took her inside to wash her off. She hasn't laid in a few days, and when washing her I...

It sounds like it could be Marek's. Do you know if she was vaccinated? This is a good bit of info on Marek's here: animalscience.ucdavis.edu/avian/mareks2.pdf Lisa  

I can't say I blame you one bit. Good luck in finding a new Roo! :)

I'm so sorry I'm over a month late replying to this, for some reason I didn't get any notifications. :( I agree that yes, it is canker. I hope your hen is much better now.  

Good luck! I hope he's back to normal quickly!

I got it from Jeffer's in the pill form. (Fish zole is the specific product I used.) It came in 250 mg. form and I just gave her the whole pill because she's an orp and weighs more than my other girls. Your idea of soaking it in...

That looks almost exactly like what one of my hens recently had, it was canker. I used the Metronidazole to treat her, and she is just fine now. :) As far as I know it will not hurt if it is pox or something else. (It really looks like...

I would go get a bag of grower feed/flock raiser and some oyster shell. Layer feed is too high in calcium for a 12 week old chicken, so you can just offer oyster shell for the layers in addition to a grower feed until she gets old...