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    Help with quarantine

    I’m going to be honest, I’ve read 1000 articles on sour crop and I’m just not sure. I guess maybe I’m not sure what a crop is supposed to feel like. When i found the hen that died she had some brown stuff coming out of her mouth and that’s what worried me. I’ve smelled all of their breath and it...
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    Help with quarantine

    We lost the one :( I’m going to start treating for sour crop as well, just in case. The roo that was healthy as could be now has a goopy eye. It just feels like we’re fighting an uphill battle.
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    Help with quarantine

    Quick update: things are looking up. We didn’t lose the one yet, she ate and drank some. Still trying to decide whether or not to put the healthier ones back into the coop, let me know what you guys think.
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    Help with quarantine

    I was thinking about that! The one bird is still kicking, not sure how but she finally drank a whole cup of electrolyte water and ate a bit of corn. I want to put the roo and the two healthy hens back in the coop, they aren’t wheezing at all and stopped sneezing today. I guess I’m just scared to...
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    Help with quarantine

    I’m currently giving them tylan50 and I’m not sure if it’s helping. The symptoms are sneezing that turns into wheezing if it progresses, lethargy, and in the one serious case a lack of eating or drinking. The closest place that will take a look at my birds is over an hour away :(
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    Help with quarantine

    hi everyone! My husband and I had a respiratory outbreak in our flock starting on Sunday. We brought 7 of our 16 inside and quarantined them. After giving them antibiotics and electrolytes it looks like we’re only going to lose one, although losing that one is going to be very hard :( Anyways...
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    Hello from Virginia!

    My name is Anna and my husband and I live in a small town in central Virginia. We’ve been raising chickens for about a year now and we still have so much to learn. We just had our first respiratory disease in our coop and I realized that I’m gonna need some help along the way. Excited to be part...
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