Recent content by gabbi824

Same here, thank you so much for all your calming advice :) You deserve that Golden Feather title!

Hi everyone :) I checked the hens this morning all crops were normal. Withheld food up until an hour ago and let them all munch on some yogurt...hope I have no more scares.. Did catch the little one eating wet hay since it's raining today...planning to change bedding to pine shavings

that is a wonderful idea! thank you so much! I am keeping my fingers crossed for them to be unpuffed in the morning. I will feed the yogurt which i hope can be a better step them "vomiting" them. Ugh that was scary....

I have never had some many concerns with our chickens. All of our other chickens were adopted from people who had them in their backyard and no longer wanted them. This was our first flock of baby chicks, its extremely sad. I think i am so concerned with the "sour crop" thing because the last...

I just went to close them in their coop and i lifted her up and she spit up which is kind of how the other chicken started her journey to sour crop. I pulled all their feed out, they do nest in hay. I attempted to smell her beak she would not let me ill try again tomorrow if it isn't down. I did...

This may be other chickens "bullying" that one. I would keep an eye on her, but the other chickens will sense a weak chicken. Not sure of anything else, I would be happy to check out my "Backyard Chicken Bible" and let you know!

So the last one "Elouise" we did the vomit technique and it ended up with her dead. We may have given her a heart attack because we had to do it three or four times before her crop was emptied. Well now that the last hen died I am on a kick on making sure the last six are ok, we have had a lot...

Hi everyone, so I am in a bit of a pickle with my new baby chicks. We recently had a baby chick (6 months of age) diagnosed with "Sour Crop" or "Thrash" and it died, sadly. At this time I am concerned that another baby chick has this same condition and I am trying to nip it in the butt right...

Grass time is cut and non pesticide are used. We are an organic farm so there is no harmful chemicals used anywhere on the property. I will deff re-post in the emergency section (once I figure out how to). Fortuantly this baby chick is no where near as bad as the other one, but I would much...

Hi everyone I really hope I can get some help from you all. I recently bought 7 chicKS in April and they were doing well up until one died last week. She was diagnosed with "sour crop" and we tried our best to empty her crop and give her the meds the vet gave us but she unfortunately passed away...