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    Small soft lump on LEFT side of chest, crop problems? What is it?

    My 3.5 year old hen has had this issue for a while but I have not made a fuss of it because she was eating and drinking well and her poop was normal. She is molting right now so she is feeling poorly and eating less (my chickens always feel like this during a molt so for them it's normal, but...
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    HELP, my hen is lethargic, not eating & drinking, green poop

    Thank you for your reply. Did your hens make it? did you figure out what they had??
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    HELP, my hen is lethargic, not eating & drinking, green poop

    My 3 year old hen has been feeling off for the past three weeks. It was kind of on and off, some days she seemed great and some days not so much. Now, it's worse than ever. She hasn't been feeling well for the past 5 days and there has been no improvement. She was one of our best layers (an egg...
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    Please help me figure out what is wrong with my sweet hen :(

    I forgot to mention that after free-ranging sunday, she still had a little stuff in her crop monday morning and that is when she seemed to start feeling bad. I massaged her crop and got it to empty. I have check her crop every morning since and it is fine now Also, she is 3 years old. Another...
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    Please help me figure out what is wrong with my sweet hen :(

    Hi everyone, I have been searching on here and on the web to figure out what could be wrong with my hen but I can't pinpoint exactly what's wrong as there seems to be so many possibilities... She has not been herself since a few days, she is usually the most active girl so I can easily know...
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    Why are my hens molting again?!

    I have four 2.5 yr old hens that all went through a molt recently since around September-October. One of my hens had a rough molt in September and lost a lot of feathers, more throughout October-November and starting laying again for about a week beginning of November but soon stopped again and...
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    Heavy breathing with mouth closed

    Thank you so much for your reply. There was only a bit of blood and she hasn't bled again today. Her nostrils still seem a bit blocked but somewhat better than yesterday. She is still breathing strangely with her mouth closed, and it is more noticeable when she is laying down. Her behavior was...
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    Heavy breathing with mouth closed

    I just went back to check on her and one of her nostrils is bloody??? how can this happen? it's bloody and closed up with what looks like dried blood, I can't get it unclogged, her nostrils are so tiny! please help!!
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    Heavy breathing with mouth closed

    I have searched everywhere but haven't found any answers to this.. My 2.5 year old hen is breathing quite heavily, but with her mouth closed. When she is laying down, her whole body rocks when she breathes. I can really notice a sort of contraction in the throat area. She is acting fine...
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    Sour Crop CURED with Monistat

    Thank you, I will keep a close eye on her! It's so strange.
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    Sour Crop CURED with Monistat

    Thanks for your reply! I'm thinking it might be side effects from the molt, but then again even before she started molting she has had this "abnormal" crop in the morning if I compare it to my other hens. From your experience, when your hen had sour crop, was her poop normal? was she active...
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    Chicken Sickness, need help!

    Welcome to BYC :) Could the bump on her chest simply be the crop?? It's on the right side of a chicken's chest. It can be all kinds of sizes during the day. It should be full at night and check first thing in the morning to make sure it is empty (withhold food for the night until you go check on...
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    Sour Crop CURED with Monistat

    Also, I just checked on her crop again and it is firm (just right) and full of crumbles after eating her pellets. It feels totally normal. I just don't know why there is this soft spot in the morning... if it were sour crop, wouldn't her crop feel enlarged and mushy during the day and not normal?
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    Sour Crop CURED with Monistat

    Would it hurt to give my hen monistat even though I am not 100% sure it's sour crop? My 2.5 year old hen is acting fine, eating, drinking and pooping normally but she is currently going through a molt so she is not laying for now. She poops fine overnight but I notice a small, soft crop in the...
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    Can I give docusate sodium if my hen is already on antibiotics (penicillin) ?

    I forgot to add that she is acting very well otherwise, she is hungry and is looking for food. It's like the impaction doesn't really bother her??
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