Posts by corrae

I'm sort of in the same boat....  Last night the dog brought me a tiny duckling--completely unharmed--and we are no where near water.  No trees (so no wood ducks?) and I've got a solo baby on my hands.  I've got it warm in...

Hi Angela--I don't know very much, so take this for what it's worth--but she sounds like she might possibly have "sour crop."  I lost a hen of mine to that--my fault--but I did research here and found a lot of...

Last night I brought home 6 chicks from the local farm and ranch store.  I have a sweet broody cochin who was thrilled to have "instant" family.  Surrogate mama and babies are active and eating and drinking this...

I had one like that--hard boil an egg, mash it up, and feed it to your listless chick.  If it feels like there's nothing to it, it's not getting anything to eat.  I hand fed mine like this for quite awhile until she could hold...

I think you have pasty bottom.  Diarrhea stuck on their bottoms.  Get some oatmeal and grind it up fine--use a blender or food processor.  Take their regular food away for a few hours and get them to eat the oatmeal. ...

Hi Kristy--I had this happen to me several years ago.  I'm not sure how I managed to find it, but on this forum I did find a post with the information you're looking for--as well as photos.  What I did with my little guy was to...

Sadly, I discovered too late what the problem was:  "sour crop."  I lost my poor hen last night--she spasmed in my arms and just died.  Having had horses, cows, cats, dogs, etc all my life I find it incredibly...

Thanks for the moral support.  As I'm sure you know, this is very hard.  I feel so guilty--I wish I had done more, or the right thing, or something.  This is horrible.

My buff orp hen just died in my arms--I'm 99% sure it was sour crop.  i'd spent today massaging her crop, giving her water w/apple cidar vinear, and I just brought her out of the crate, set her on my lap, when she suddenly threw up...

I've brought the hen in--she had some yellowish diarrhea on her feathers--I clipped that off--she's in a carrier in the house--her crop feels soft and mushy--maybe the area below the crop-- it almost feels fluid filled.  She's most...