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Oh - sorry. They get spinach every day. They also get mealworms in the mornings and evenings.

She was, in my opinion, about 1 - 2 pounds over weight. It was noticeable when she lost the weight.

Hi There - we feed them layer feed. They also have access to oyster shells and grit.

Hi All - I have a golden wyandotte who is lethargic, stays off to herself and I can tell is not feeling well. She's lost some weight too after being very over weight. First background - we let them out to free range every day and their coop is located in a 20 x 40 fenced in run. There are 9...

Hi All - We finally had to put her down. Our girl still wasn't feeling well, the prognisis was poor and we didn't want her to suffer. After tears and much angst we put her down Saturday morning. It was confirmed by a vet (via x-ray) that she had indeed laid internally. We will post the...

I have asked for a copy of the film to be sent to me. I will post it once I receive it.

Hi All - quick update. The cause of the sour crop is the fact that she has laid two eggs internally. One normal sized egg and another peanut shaped egg. The vet suggested operating for $400. I cant see spending that at this time. I have heard that giving an internal laying hen oil and...

My apologies for not responding sooner - the buttermilk drench we used was buttermilk applied directly to their normal food in the hopes of providing some good probiotics.

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Thank you so much for your reply. It's much appreciated. I will answer your questions below. We give all our chickens their normal food and then some spinach as a treat in the AM. We also provide them scratch and meal worms each day. She loved to eat the spinach but stayed away from the dry...

3 weeks ago we had a buff who we thought had worms, potentially mites and sour crop all at the same time. We brought Mello Yellow inside and put her in our "hospital". It's a small cardboard box with pine shavings. We withheld both food and water for 12 hours. Her crop was flat but a bit...

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Does Valbazen come in different strengths? If so what strength should I give a hen who is about 5 pounds (normally 7) who has worms?

My advice is to separate your injured chicken from the flock if she is badly injured with some of her sisters who you know to be non violent. Many times setting the pecking order can be scary for us. We just combined two sets of birds. We combined 6 new pullets with my 5 adult birds. We...

Many thanks! I have tried eggs in the hospital coop and she loves it. Now that she has eaten and was separated for much of the day she is back to her old self again. I know she isn't acting ill for attention but I can not find anything wrong with her. I wondered if in her excitement this...

Have checked her for mites. Didn't find any. She seems just a bit better since I have separated her from the others. She was super hungry this morning and made a very crooked but committed attempt to get to the food bucket when we brought it out. I am trying to figure out how to attach a...

well - after two days of seemingly normal behavior she stumbled out of the coop this morning staggering sideways and walking backwards. I have her isolated once again in the "hospital coop" but have no idea what to do. I have read that this could be botulism, mareks (though she is 2 - 3 years...

Ok - update on Amelia's crop issue: Amelia's crop initially had gone down after we vomited her. In fact we vomited her a couple of times due to the fact that she was drinking so much water (our opinion is that she had an impacted or blocked crop and was trying to drink liquids to dissolve the...

Update - We kept Amelia separated for 3 days as we attempted to manage her crop issue (still believe it was sour crop). During crop massages she would expel some super nasty liquid - most of it green. Initially we provided her a stool softener - 100 mg Ducolax tablet and kept food from her...

Many thanks. We have been giving her yogurt and pieces of water melon but she has almost no interest in eating. She seems to be a bit more perky today (at least at points) but she spends lots of time in the corner of the chicken house. We have her separated in a separate smaller house so that...