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    Not vent Gleet..what's going on?

    Hoping someone with more experience can help me. I have 5 hens in a nice area. I keep their coop clean and dust them and the ground often with diatomaceous earth. They have a sand bath with D. earth) and I spray them and they area periodically for mites. They don't pick on each other at all and...
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    How long should I give impacted crop to resolve?

    That would be great! I have watched several surgeries online and I grew up on a farm so I am pretty confident I can handle it..LOL Let me tell you what I was planning and let me know if I am missing anything or should do anything different: Assume that all instruments are sterilized and I am...
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    How long should I give impacted crop to resolve?

    Have a hen who I have been working on her impacted crop 4 days now. It's smaller than a baseball, larger than a golf ball. In the mornings it is still pliable and soft/mushy. I have given her oils and even that ginger concoction I read about and I massage it 10-15 min 3x daily. Even after...
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    Impacted/Pendulous Crop (Surgery?)

    I am feeding my hen this same concoction to help her impacted crop and what I have found VERY helpful is to wrap her tight in a towel and let her basically stand in my lap with my left arm around her, gently cupping her head and helping hold it still. Then I carefully use the tip of the...
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    Impacted crop?

    I have a lovely, friendly hen who, about 4 days ago, wouldn't leave the nesting box (no she is not broody) and when I open the box her feather puff out as if in pain. So I assumed impacted egg, since she hadn't laid that day and she often gives me double yokers. On day 2 I soaked her in an epsom...
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