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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    Uggghh I was hoping it was just a phosphorus deficiency or other type of mineral deficiency that I could remedy
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    To try that may just be bringing her back in for crop surgery again as she may eat both
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    That’s what I’m afraid of she’s young and was good up until a week ago them this all happened I know theoriginal problem was the long grass she kept eating even with it then when the vet showed me the picture of all that was in her you could see some bedding and feed and scratch the second time...
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    I use both I know oyster shells aren’t grit it helps with the eggshells they have a station of both with having 2 cups of grit in the station and one 1 cup of oyster shell in the other station they never go without grit in their runs
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    Unless you are suggesting that I pour bags of grit and oyster shells on their dirt in the runs if that would help but to find out she still will ext shavings and another crop surgery ugggh
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    I have grit stations and oyster shell stations in runs for them when out free ranging well we live on a mt ridge there is plenty of lil grit rocks around
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    I know that’s the problem I can’t figure it out how to keep her from eating bedding when she was raised on it and never ate it till recently that’s why I was thinking she had some sort of deficiency vet doesn’t have an answer but to keep her off of it and yes I have grit and oyster shell...
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    Thank you no they don’t keep her away from food and I have 2 feeders just in case of that also have grit/ oyster shell stations in runs
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    Like I said they eat kalmbach feed crumbles & pellets I do give fruit and vegetables but as a treat not everyday or week mealworms as well just enough to call them ba k in from free ranging to secure them when I have to leave for work or elsewhere water they get rooster booster electrolytes with...
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    Right now she is in a wire bottom cage but she will be going back in with the other 9 hens so I’m wondering why all of a sudden she is doing this and what to do with her/ the coop she will b going back in when she has recovered it gets real cold here in NYS on the mountain ridge so sand won’t b...
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    Typo she had no way to get grass the 2nd time as she was in a cage in a room in the barn
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    Yes her crop also had shaving in it when the veterinarian did surgery opened her up on both times and there was shavings and the 2nd time she ate them she was in a living world cage recovering from the first surgery which was a week prior to the 2nd one so she had. I access to grass not mushy...
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    Help 19 month old laying eating shavings

    I have an 18 month old barred rock that has decided to eat large pine shavings and she got a crop impaction not once but twice who she surgery done yes she had shavings long strands of grass and feed All my large breed chickens free range for a few hours everyday then in their pen their coops...
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    Found Dead Hen - *Very* Graphic Necropsy Photos

    Is just had a healthy hen pass away I necrospy her & found similar finding
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