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    1 yo Speckled Sussex hen with puffy "balloon" crop

    Just letting you all know that she appears to have fully recovered from whatever ailed her. My best guess is that she had ingested something that caused a temporary blockage and has now cleared. Thanks to everyone who took the time to offer advice and support!
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    1 yo Speckled Sussex hen with puffy "balloon" crop

    She has been eating well since yesterday but still has the puffy crop and related neck/head spasms. I still don't smell any suerkraut odor around her head and she's otherwise acting normal
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    1 yo Speckled Sussex hen with puffy "balloon" crop

    We've had a flock of 20+ hens for almost 17 years, so I'm pretty familiar with how crops normally feel. Hers feels like a water balloon, it's quite swollen but doesn't feel impacted at all and we don't smell any odor (e.g. sour crop). The swelling is definitely her crop. I feed the flock...
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    1 yo Speckled Sussex hen with puffy "balloon" crop

    She only pooped a couple of times after we transferred her to a cage yesterday. She just drank more water and isn't having any spasms currently and now she's scratching and pecking in the shavings but still not eating. There's nothing in her beak or throat. I don't know how to tell if she has...
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    1 yo Speckled Sussex hen with puffy "balloon" crop

    She has no interest in eating the watery egg, but she did drink quite a bit of water when I roused her this morning. She immediately started regurgitating it, similar to someone attempting to belch or induce vomiting. She has had similar neck/crop twitching and spasms for a couple of days now
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    1 yo Speckled Sussex hen with puffy "balloon" crop

    Their run has grit floor, so she has daily intake. Her crop feels empty, just ballooned full of air. I'm thinking of running a tube down her throat to try to relieve the pressure. I'll try watery egg in the morning but she's not responded to food or water.
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    1 yo Speckled Sussex hen with puffy "balloon" crop

    She started acting strange a couple of days ago with some head/neck twitching. Her crop feels like a balloon full of air, we can't feel anything in it. She isn't eating at all and not drinking much, though she did pass droppings this morning. Just in case it's related, I've been giving the...
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    Bird Flu

    If you're going to talk about Chinese vs American licorice, please use Botanical names for clarification
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    8 month old hen broody for weeks but not laying

    All of my other large hens seem to prefer laying on the floor under their nesting boxes, so the rocks aren't a problem for them. I've kept upwards of 25+ hens at any given time over the last 16 years and have, on occasion, had to cage some when they've been injured or sick. My observation is...
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    8 month old hen broody for weeks but not laying

    I could not bring myself to put her in a cage, as a few have suggested. I decided to put several 4-6" rocks in all of the large nesting boxes (she's a big girl) Wednesday afternoon before I left town for Thanksgiving. She immediately moved onto one of the roosts, then joined the flock and has...
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    8 month old hen broody for weeks but not laying

    hens will continue to lay until they have a clutch. She has not laid in the weeks she has been broody in the empty nest box.
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    8 month old hen broody for weeks but not laying

    Breaks my heart to put her in a cage, she's such a sweetie, but I am willing to try it to break her broodiness. I've kept chickens for 16 years and had broody hens before, but never had a broody non-laying pullet.
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    8 month old hen broody for weeks but not laying

    we raised 7 hens from day-old chicks. All are laying except one, our partridge cochin. She's been glued to the nesting box for at least two months now, but as far as I know she's never laid an egg, nor is she sitting on other eggs. She's not egg bound, but I've read about false layers, whose...
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    Housing a feral cat inside the chicken run for rodent control?

    I move my broody chicks and their eggs into a brooder inside a separate building. They don't move out to the coop until they are at least 7-8 weeks old and, even then, they have "mom" to protect them.
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    Housing a feral cat inside the chicken run for rodent control?

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