At what point do i know that she's better? I haven't been feeding her any regular feed, just the mixture. She's eating it without Chick feed on it now. How much of the mixture should a week old Chick get at a time/per day? And when can I give her the regular feed again?
When you massage the crop is there a certain way of doing it? Like in an upward motion to get the gas out? I always hear what sounds like bubbles popping when I massage her.
Gave her another TSP of egg/yogurt/kefir and oil mixture tonight and she ate it all.. This is what she looks like after eating (the yellow color is from the olive oil)
Good to know!I will do that.she keeps making a bunch of noise, I gave her some more yogurt with probiotic kefir and olive oil (she only gets plain water) but her crop is so gassy, like a little balloon again :(
Is it a good idea to give her the egg now even though is so bloated?
My 3 week old Maran Baby has been dealing with sour crop. Last night it was so swollen that I thought it would burst. I went and got Kefir and natural yogurt, took all the food and bedding out overnight and she seemed to have emptied it overnight. This morning I gave her a tiny bowl with the...
My 3 week old Maran Baby has been dealing with sour crop. Last night it was so swollen that I thought it would burst. I went and got Kefir and natural yogurt, took all the food and bedding out overnight and she seemed to have emptied it overnight. This morning I gave her a tiny bowl with the...
Thank you all for the warm welcome on the intro thread. I posted this there but it got lost in the shuffle. Started building the coop beginning of June and the Texas heat had me take way longer to build than I intended. But it's finished except for the frames on the windows indoors. Now I'm...
Thank you all for the warm welcome! It took a little longer for me to complete my coop but its finally DONE and today was move-in day for the "Cre8ive Chicks"!
Got 2 silkies, black and white and 2 Marans. The last 2 won't hatch until Monday so they'll be joining us in about 3 weeks.
Here are...
Hi there,
I've been secretly reading up and learning tons from all of you or a while now and since I'm in the process of building my coop ow, I figured it's time to become an official member :)
Since I already feel like I'm living in a zoo most days and having a well growing veggie garden that...