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My chicken has a strange raised ring on it's neck with a crater in it's flesh. A chicken vet recommend this protocol to heal. Maybe this would be useful to you for the wounds and keeping out infection and flies. Good luck! This an email someone sent me trying to help me out. After doing...

Wow thank you all for your suggestions! The hole is like a shallow crater and it is a red scab. The sides of this thing are like a massive roll. I will try and take a better picture today. I have been treating with this protocol: Looks like I could add colloital silver to the mix. The hole...

Will hurt to give her collidal silver even if it's not infection?

Ewwwh. Is that harmless once it's left the chicken?

img/smilies/idunno.gif" alt="idunno" />">https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55351_img_0514.jpg What is it??? No one on Emergencies responds... Friends have said ringworm, spider bite, pecking? She seems under weight, feathers are making a peak at the breast bone. It's a 17 wk...

The crop is a large lump that I can move around. Is that impaction? What else could it be? Every time I get it cleared out and let it eat, it fill back up to a hard ball.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55351_img_0514.jpg Could this be ringworm? Posted a link to a picture of my 17wk Bramha hen with a weird circle wound a few days ago. It's a crater about the size of a dime with very raised white skin on the edges. The crater of flesh has...

OK... removed small grit. One of my chicks yesterday had a golf ball size crop and wasn't moving around much. I worked yesterday and last night and she is much better, I am just keeping an eye on it to make sure stuff keeps moving down. Started to get paranoid with each bulge!

I'll do that right now! The shavings I have are great because they are very low dust, but they are also a lot smaller! Thanks for the help!!!

My three chicks are 7 and 9 days old. Live inside on wood shavings and only have eaten chick starter. A couple seem to be getting really full crops. They have plenty of fresh water. I am nursing back one chick that had a really large impacted crop from yesterday. It was gone this morning...

Thanks, these chicks are being raised inside and have only had chick starter. They are on wood shavings. Should I give fine grit anyway?

I have a 7 day old chick who has seemed the mellowest and the most docile from the start. Her weight is good, has a great appetite. This morning I noticed that she had a HUGE bump where her crop is. I have been giving her small amounts of warm water bit of olive oil in it, with special curved...

What do you clean it with?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55351_img_0514.jpg This is a 17 week old hen. We found this round, red looking wound on her this morning and it wasn't there last night. It's just odd because it's in such a perfect circle. She acts fine! I have two silkie roosters and a total...

We just brought home two 3 day old Marens. I am feeding them the same organic grow mash I feed my 16 week old chickens. They just seem to be pecking at it with not much interest. There are some poops, and they seem energetic, but cheeping loud! I ground it up finer in a cuisan art blender...