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    Pinless Peepers

    Thanks for the reply! This started for us in late winter...we saw a little picking on them here and there, and then one morning we went out to the coop and three of them were picked bare to the skin on their back, a spot about the size of a baseball right above their tail. Since we put the...
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    Pinless Peepers

    Hi all....had a question I was wondering if anyone who has experience using peepers/blinders might be able to help me with. So we have a small number of hens, and a few of them were picking at the backs of the others. We tried a bunch of different things, including Pick-No-More, isolation...
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    Crop surgery post-care?

    Thanks for the response...that's sort of what I was thinking, but we didn't want to rush her if she needed longer. She seems back to her old self and as I mentioned, is having a fit being away from the others. I think what we may do is let her forage a bit this evening, then isolate her again...
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    Crop surgery post-care?

    Thanks! Happy to be here...glad I found it, we've already found a ton of great resources here.
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    Crop surgery post-care?

    We're newbies, both to this forum and to raising chickens in general. We have 6 pullets, all layers, and one had an impacted crop that unfortunately required to be emptied surgically. We don't have an avian vet near us, but our local vet was able to cobble enough resources together to help us...
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