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Head jerking may be a sign of an impacted/sour crop you did not let us know if her crop feels mushy or hard. I use super booster antibiotic it has vitamins in it and the mixture is on the package but you may need an injectable antibiotic unless you learn to tube feed .There are plenty of...

The crop does not feel swollen or mushy ? it should be empty by now if you are only feeding her liquids. I would get her some antibiotics and try tube feeding her the antibiotic and more food and/or mineral oil if she is not eating on her own still . I am thinking she may have eaten something...

I would put her on antibiotics I had this problem with a hen almost exactly the same age she layed weird yolk looking egg etc similar to what you described in the winter then layed nothing and i thought it was because of the cold but approx a couple months later she ended up having a huge...

Some of My chicks have done this before and its usually something stuck in the crop like grass etc. ..and i think they are trying to make it start moving when they move the head like in the video. If he keeps doing it he may have a partially impacted crop. check him in the morning before he...

I am no expert but that wound looks like it will need stitches and if its not infected it looks like it might be from the pictures. I would try cleaning it really well and removing any dead tissue around the wound then sewing up the hole with dissolvable stitches & suture needle also i would...

If your bird is still eating normally then there should be little need to tube feed especially with such an injury. I would space out the feedings so that she gets just as much as she normally eats but not all at once so the crop doesn't fill at least for the first week. extra vitamins etc...

I tend to agree with the lack of grit in her gizzard may have caused problems but there was plenty of grit available while she was outside and also in the run ,I guess for some reason she just didn't eat any/enough grit maybe because she filled up on the seeds and had no room. I have seen...

Mutt I didn't do a full Necropsy I only focused on the gizzard but I can confidently say that the crop was not impacted or sour as I felt it and it was empty with no weird clumps/sloshing etc.. The seeds should have passed within a few days in quarantine if they were going to (she had access to...

I would seperate the bird then sew the crop up and prob not use super glue there (will it dissolve inside of the pigeon afterwords?) then i would sew/glue the outer skin and keep the bird on antibiotics for a week . i would also not feed the bird enough to totally fill the crop for a week or...

I have already planted the seeds to see if i can get one to sprout =) i am not sure that the seeds would poison the chicken unless the outer shell was broken down which it wasn't. I broke the outer shell of a few seeds and the innards were white and the seed had a very sweet smell but i still...

The seeds are very hard as well like a popcorn kernel.

From my reading popcorn kernels are ok to feed chickens these seeds are no bigger than popcorn kernels thats why I was wondering if the seed may be poison or it just ate too many at once and it blocked the gizzard. the seeds must have caused death otherwise they would have been pooped out...

I am not sure they are peas unless they are wild ones but i haven't noticed anything like that around the house. I am thinking that they should have been able to get through the system as they dont seem too large but maybe because there was so many of them it blocked the gizzard from emptying.

There was no other grit in the gizzard but they have access to plenty of grit. it was just the seeds in there. I do not think there are any cherry trees or peas around here. but i can have a look and see if i can find any of the seeds close by. From my research these seeds should have passed...

Hello I was tending to a sick listless pullet from my flock (4 months old) for the past few days that roam freely around the house and in the woods some days. The chick was not eating but was drinking a bit the crop was not swollen or have any signs of being impacted., green bile poop...