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Please keep me updated! I’m not in a rush atm because I am wanting to wait until my hen goes broody again (she goes broody ALLLLLL the time from spring until fall). I’m hoping she will adopt some chicks. I’m only looking to get her 3 maybe 4 chicks. And since they’re auto-sexed, just pullets.

Hey everyone! Been a long time since I’ve been on here… Life got busy and crazy for me… Anyway, I don’t want to buy from a hatchery, I want to avoid buying chicks through shipping… So I’m curious if anyone knows where I can find someone who regularly breeds and sales Crested Cream Legbar...

I had a Speckled Sussex that had an impacted crop... Not sure what it was impacted with but it was hard as a rock and the size of a softball. I was just about ready to cull her when my sister passed away and culling my hen got put on the back burner. I kept reading that a chicken wont survive an...

What do you think the odds are of a chicken surviving an impacted crop the size of a softball that is just as hard and turned sour with no other treatment except stool softener and occasional massage?

My two SS are still molting but both of their blocked crop issues have resolved completely. I will note that I did notice an issue with them both after changing from crumble to pellet. So I am wondering if they are eating their blood feather casings and that mixed with the pellets was just too...

I've no idea. But I checked both my SS ladies this morning before I let them out to eat and their crops were empty! I massaged that gave them stool softeners and that seemed to have done the trick

I realize this is an old post, but thought I'd share my experience. I had a Sussex that was molting. She also developed an impacted crop the size of a softball and just as hard which turned sour and pendulous. I tried everything short of surgery. After about 2 weeks, I had to give it a break and...

Thank you all! My sister was a fighter and she fought her illness every step of the way. She is no longer in a body that became her prison. I am praying my hen continues her path to recovery... I just find it amazing how she has been able to bounce back from something that should have taken...

So I wanted to give an update about my hen... about 3-4 weeks ago I discovered that she had a severely blocked crop. It was hard as a rock and the size of a softball, if not larger. I fought and fought to save her life. I massaged it. I gave her stool softeners. Withheld food. Crated her. And...

I so dread doing this... with every fiber of my being, but I know it is part of good animal husbandry.

Ok, maybe not ether. I read on full grown hens it is slower and causes convulsions.

Thank you! Maybe I will try the ether route!

I have a hen with a blocked, sour, pendulous crop. I've been massaging it. Giving her monistat and stool softener. It hasn't fixed the issue and now she has stopped eating. I am looking to humanly euthanize her by internal decapitation but I'm so scared I will botch it. How hard is it to do?

Thank you all for the tips!!! I have placed her in a crate with only water this morning. I massaged her crop, to the best of my knowledge on how to do so, and although it is still huge, it is not near as rock hard. Do any of you have a video of how to correctly massage an impacted crop?