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If you think about it, you'd protest too if someone stuck a tube down your throat :eek: Just make sure you have a good hold on them. I got really good at it and I also use a small flashlight with a rubber handle so I can hold it in my mouth to see easily into their throat to make sure it's going...

I just checked and verified they are working. what brower/operating system are you using?

Sophie's crop is emptying better now. Going to start increasing her volume of feed. She has also gained almost 2 ounces.

Another question: how do I know when she's ready to go back in the coop? I was thinking when she's eating and drinking on her own, but for how long should she be doing this before she goes back? I'd love to keep her in until the heat dissipates, but that won't be for like... ohh.. 2 months.

Note: Sophie is my phoenix chicken. 4 years ago a coyote grabbed her. My rat terrier and one of my german shepherds hit that coyote like a train. He dropped Sophie and tried to run. They beat the crap out of him and then I called them off so he could run back to the pack and tell them "ain't...

I'll ask him. I just dewormed with valbazen a month ago - two treatments 10 days apart. Vet said lots of birds having problems right now between awful heat and some bug going around. Recommended I use oxytetracycline, which I'd been doing. But Sophie was not improving. Other birds are fine. So...

Sounds like a plan

Ok thanks for that. I should reduce the amount I'm feeding her then and just watch the crop so I can feed her appropriately I assume? I'm feeding her at 8am, noon, 4pm and 7pm. I work from home, have chickens horses dogs and cats.. so my ranch is my life LOL. If I'm not home, I'm either at the...

Question: my Sussex is around 4.5 lbs. She stopped eating & drinking a few days ago. I did not notice right away, as I've been distracted with my 29 yr old mare having an upper respiratory infection and wasn't watching them eat & drink and her coop mate was eating/drinking so I assumed she was...

So 240ml for a 4.5 lb chicken sounds about right? I must say, this thread has been a wonderful source of information and without it I am pretty sure my Sophie would be dead. I was terrified of trying to tube feed her, but figured if I didn't try, she wasn't going to make it. There is NO way you...

Question.. when tube feeding, once you've given them fluids, when you start the food, you still need to do fluids I assume...so how to you combine them? Alternate feedings or is the fluid used to mix the food sufficient?