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Wow - that is really helpful, thanks! I'm glad that doc was able to save your chicken. We do feed our chickens ground oyster shells with their food as well as the occasional cheese or yogurt treat. ACV is put in their drinking water. Any sick chicken (esp. poopy butts) get fed yogurt and...

Just a final post about Fuzzy Butt. She lived a happy life and adjusted well without a tongue. She learned to eat mash & pellets, drink and forage. She simply adapted to doing it differently than the other chickens. We got plenty of beautiful eggs from her too. During the spring of 2014...

If I could hold her still long enough. Those tongs look long enough to reach but I'd be afraid of puncturing something in her throat. She has adapted to this new lifestyle and we continue to feed her the mash in a bowl with water. We're committed to feeding her like this for the rest of her...

Her tongue is still stuck somewhere down her throat but she is gaining weight! Her energy is back and she is now 3lbs 7oz at 20 weeks old. Almost as big as the other pullets! Three times a day we feed her a bowl of mash with a lot of water. (Think cereal bowl filled with milk to the rim.)...

I will try to get a pic of the inside of her throat and post it here. Right now my profile pic is of Fuzzy Butt, taken a few days before she started having problems. Riki: Believe me, I'd love to get her to a vet that treats chickens (if we could afford it too) but we are on our own here. I...

No, not yet. She only weighs 2 lbs now, has lost 1/3 her body weight compared to her sisters. I bought a 50# bag of grower mash in hopes that the finer grind would help her. She eats it like the other chickens, but I'm not sure how much is getting down into her tummy vs. falling out of her...

That's an idea - I could tightly tape a Q-tip to a shishkebob stick. The hard part is keeping her steady, neck straight and beak open all at the same time. I wish there was a way to make a chicken relax long enough to poke down there. Thanks for your advice!

Someone please help? I see a lot of responses on all the other topics, but no response here. Is this really a rare thing to happen? I really don't want my chicken to starve to death, please help!

Hi! Please know that I am VERY GRATEFUL for any advice that you can give - we are brand new at keeping chickens! None of our local chicken-keeping friends have ever heard of this tongue problem. We love our babies, they are like pets to us and we really want to save 'Fuzzy Butt's life. (Our...