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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    @Eggcessive I started her on the calcium citrate with vit-d on Friday morning. Since then she laid 1 or 2 more soft eggs or none daily. Today she finally laid a “regular” egg, however, it’s still really big like the ones she was laying before she started having issues with the soft shells...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    She’s on new country Organics layer feed, I gave her some cantaloupe too but she’s not eating so far this morning. Running up to get some calcium now! I do have some purina layer feed still if you think I should give her that instead? It’s crumbles… I attached a picture of her feed, maybe it’s...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    What I thought was one was 3 shell-less eggs 😯 I put some tums in her water just based on what I read on other posts, but this seems a little different than what anyone else has posted? I’m going to go to the store to get some calcium pills to give her now and I gave her another epsom salt bath...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    This morning this is what I saw when I went in to check on her… it’s another shell-less egg. Anyone have any ideas?
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    Good Evening, I’m hoping that some people are still up and on the thread, it’s 10:30 pm where I live. I have a hen that is either egg bound or has water belly. I originally thought for sure it was Egg Bound because she’s laid some massive eggs this week and then a “shell-less” egg where it was...
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    Necropsy Pictures- Warning Graphic! Third hen I’ve lost so I cut her open and I need experienced eyes

    Thank you Eggcessive! That’s good to know that what I thought was the kidneys wasn’t and that’s it normal for there to be poop in there. It was definitely fermenting and smelled of septic, all of it did, from her crop down. Most of our hens haven’t been laying, but there seems to be a weird...
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    Necropsy Pictures- Warning Graphic! Third hen I’ve lost so I cut her open and I need experienced eyes

    I just had our 3rd hen die of the same thing in 4 months. So I cut her open after she died, all 3 hens got an impacted crop and her gizzard was impacted. I finally worked up the nerve to do more than just check the crop after they died. I didn’t find anything that looked like it would have...
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    3rd chicken to die with this…. Has anyone else had this happen?

    Thank you all, I’ll see if I can answer all the questions… I know about the articles on sour crop and impacted crops, I read the articles, we treated for both of those things and we got tons of instruction from people who have had issues with those 2 things, even the author of the articles. So...
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    3rd chicken to die with this…. Has anyone else had this happen?

    Good Morning, In the last few months we’ve had 2 chickens have to be put down and now a third has the same issue. I’m just waiting for the vet to open to see if we can get her an appointment to be put down… what happens is their crop gets really hard and full, but you can still somewhat move it...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    We took her to the vet and they put her to sleep… best decision for her but such a hard call to make. Thank you for all your help as we tried to get her crop to empty, we did all we could, even before she swallowed the tube she wasn’t pooping much (I checked again this morning), her breath...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    It was just already a cut size in the kit I bought 😕 I realize now that it was definitely too short… my husband doesn’t want to do the surgery 😭 he is worried that it won’t work and she will suffer more. So if I can’t talk him into it we will have to wait and see if our vet can get her in and we...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    She swallowed the tube when my son pulled the syringe out to refill it 😭😭 we’re trying to get her into the vet but both exotics are in surgery this morning… at this point I may try crop surgery myself, because she’s going to die anyway if the vet can’t see her and they can’t do surgery and I...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    I just went out and followed your directions, nothing came out. It feels maybe a little smaller than it did around 11:15 (it’s now 2:20 my time). I did that as soon as I got home just now. It’s not like it’s almost normal, but not overflowing anymore… So should I check her again in a few hours...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    @azygous I’m sorry to bother you again… I just had a quick question and I wanted to ask before it becomes and issue (if it even does). What do I do if her crop doesn’t empty after the first flush? It’s been 3 hours and I just went out to check on her and when I picked her up and felt her crop it...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    We did it for the first time this morning! I got her crop as empty as I could before we did it, thankfully my teen helped me because I couldn’t seem to get the tube to go down all the way into her crop and he did it the first try 😅 it was super full afterwards and she seemed to be kinda leaning...
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