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    Enlarged flaming red crop. Impacted? Sour?

    Good going there chicken mommy - I think that WAS her windpipe I was massaging! Anyhow - the massaging helped the crop go down in size quite nicely, she's pooping normally, she's busy in her little dog crate, and she's happy to eat a slush of warm olive oil and boiled egg yolk. So now her only...
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    Enlarged flaming red crop. Impacted? Sour?

    OK, I just saw another post from last eve with a similar sound, and that person described it much better - sizzling of water drops in a hot frying pan, or Alka Seltzer dissolving in water.
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    Strange sound coming from hens left side

    We have the same sound with one of our girls. I just described it in the thread called "Enlarged flaming red crop. Impacted? Sour?" by Hobie Ranch. I called it gurgling - but your description is much better - sizzling of water in a frying pan, or the Alka Seltzer sound. What the heck...
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    Enlarged flaming red crop. Impacted? Sour?

    I've brought her into the garage and she's in a big dog kennel. OK, so it is smaller this morning. Maybe it does go down a bit at night, but it's still bigger than the other girls' and it gets huge during the day. * I massaged the crop and it felt full of fresh layer pellets...and...
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    Enlarged flaming red crop. Impacted? Sour?

    Any suggestions? Thanks...don't want to do the wrong thing.
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    Enlarged flaming red crop. Impacted? Sour?

    One of our girls has had a greatly enlarged crop for a couple of weeks. It does not go down overnight. The good news is that she is still very active and is eating voraciously. But she is losing weight and I just noticed that the skin immediately around her crop is flaming red. I feel...
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    roosts and dropping board in a small coop

    Thank you all so much. This is really helpful. I wouldn't try to get so specific about all this except that we are tight on space. And yes, I know that our coop is smallish (5' x 5' x 8' high), but our girls also get a big old run (probably 10' x 50'), and any who are so inclined just hop the...
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    roosts and dropping board in a small coop

    We're finishing our coop for 10 hens. It's smallish so we have to be efficient with use of space. It's a 5' x 5' room with 3 nest boxes built out to the exterior. We're thinking of doing one level of L shaped roost up high with a ladder of sorts to access it. I have two questions: If we...
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    Questions about getting feeder and waterer off the floor

    Thank you all. Tstefanick - I'm intrigued by the homemade water heater. I just priced them at the feed store and the metal plate ones that go under the water are $60! Can you describe the heater design or have you posted photos of it?? Thanks!
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    Questions about getting feeder and waterer off the floor

    Thank you...we'll get on it!
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    Questions about getting feeder and waterer off the floor

    Questions from a newbie... How high should we hang the feeder off the floor of the coop...and will hanging it solve our recent problem of the chickys wasting it all over the floor? They are about 6 months old and they have just started doing this. It's everywhere! I want to get our...
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    Outdoor nesting box for free rangers?

    Thanks for the input. Hmmm. I may just try it and see if there is any success - and I'll report back.
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    Outdoor nesting box for free rangers?

    We have 10 chickens who started laying about a month ago. They are laying in their boxes, but we let about half of them out for part of each day to free range in the yard. I've thought of building an outdoor nesting box onto the side of the shed for layers who are stuck outside when they get...
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