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    Injured Baby Turkey Chick

    Hello, My dog got into a wild turkey nest and grabbed a chick. The bird was found in my window well chirping and distressed. It has an injury on the back of the head. The feathers were ripped off in a nickel sized chump exposing the skin and flesh which looked raw. There was no blood or...
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    Bird has fluid in lungs after trying to get out sour crop liquid.

    I read that garlic in small quantities can help to condition their crop. It has allicin which has antifungal properties. A chicken breeder told me feeds his chickens a bit of garlic or give garlic water once a month and he has seen positive benefits. But anyway she has eaten any. I syringed...
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    Bird has fluid in lungs after trying to get out sour crop liquid.

    Ok it seems like only a bit went in. Her breathing is fine now, no open mouth or gurgling sound but I'm worried about pneumonia if a drop or two of the sour crop liquid went in. She has now got a mostly empty crop. I am offering her half a yoghurt bowl of water with half a cap of apple cider...
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    Bird has fluid in lungs after trying to get out sour crop liquid.

    Hello, My bird is having sour crop with liquid in her crop, so I held her gently, tipped her forward face first, supported the crop with my hand, then massaged the liquid out. A stinky green fluid was coming out. However, she might have swallowed a bit into her lung. Now there is this gurgling...
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    Blockage In Crop

    Hello all, I have a roughly 1 year old chicken who appears to have pendulous crop the crop is jutting forward. She keeps making jerking movements with her head like she is trying to flex or move something in her crop. In the morning, I felt the crop and it is full of water and not empty. I...
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    Chicken is going blind

    She is eating fine and is being crated in the evenings and let out during the day. She is eating her regular layer feed. The food has to be put right in front of her in a bowl and as she's trying to find it, she will peck in the air many times and miss the bowl, so we know it's a vision...
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    When Should an Automatic Coop Door Close? Are my chickens night owls?

    Can you mount the panel on a swivel and try pointing it towards the setting sun. There are certain light meters available, you can test it out and see if there is a particular direction where there is more light around the time the hens are going in, and the point the solar panel towards there...
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    Chicken is going blind

    I am attaching pictures of one eye. I will get better pictures tomorrow. I am not seeing any cloudiness in the eye. No paralysis of the legs. There is weight loss because she isn't able to find the food. She is walking around otherwise fine. I found her today after she had fallen into a window...
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    Chicken is going blind

    Hello, One of my Plymouth Rocks who is about 2 years old appears to be going blind. I noticed that she keeps stumbling when she comes out the door at the step and it happened twice. We thought previously she was ill as she tends to hide in one spot and isn't moving around like she usually does...
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    Broody Chicken or Ill

    One of my hens has been sitting in the coop all day. There was a clutch of eggs I hadn't collected yet that she was sitting on. When I approached she was making some annoyed sounds, I moved her over and then took the eggs. She was still sitting on the floor. I felt her crop, felt full and...
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    Trying to figure out of hen is egg bound or digestive tract issue

    Hi Everybody, @SmiYa0126 @Miss Lydia The chicken is now fine. Here is what happened: 1) I mistakenly diagnosed her as egg bound because she was flexing her vent, lethargic, and not eating. So I thought she is trying to pass an egg. But when I checked in the vent, there was no egg that I could...
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    Trying to figure out of hen is egg bound or digestive tract issue

    Hi everyone, @SmiYa0126 @Eggcessive @SmiYa0126 I am reading that it might be sour crop. As she has a lot of water in the crop and it feels like a balloon, but not impacted crop as it's not hard. Is Calcium still a good option if it is sour crop ? Some are saying a bit of apple cider...
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    Trying to figure out of hen is egg bound or digestive tract issue

    Hi everyone, I just saw your messages now, so I'm reviewing your advise. Update. She seems to be flushing something out of her system. I can't tell if this poop or yolky discharge from the vent. It is sort of greenish yellow. It might be one of the soft eggs that isn't fully formed has broke...
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    Trying to figure out of hen is egg bound or digestive tract issue

    @SmiYa0126 I have now mashed up a calcium magnesium and zinc tablet and put it in the water. I didn't have just pure calcium. Her crop feels full of water.
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    Trying to figure out of hen is egg bound or digestive tract issue

    Hi everyone, Yesterday I went to feed my chickens and one hen didn't come out. She was in her coop and sitting there as if she wants to lay. I came and checked on her an hour later and she's still there. In the morning when all the chickens came out, she came out with them, but she is a bit...
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