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    Comment by 'jcchomps' in article 'Sour Crop, Impacted Crop, Doughy Crop - Prevention and Treatments of Crop disorders'

    Thank you for the informative article. We just had our first experience with a crop that wouldn’t empty. We took our sweet Speckled Sussex inside and gave her 1tsp of Epsom Salts per cup of water, wet crumbles and grit. With crop massage, she started to pass better droppings and seemed to...
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    Best quarantine method - limping pullet

    Here she is in a garden bed cover that I used for a few hours before doing the "chicken wire around a bush" setup.
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    Best quarantine method - limping pullet

    Hi all -- looking for some more experienced chicken stewards to weigh in on the best (for reducing stress, not upsetting the balance) method for protecting an injured pullet (21 weeks old). (1) Medium sized dog crate with food and water and bedding -- in the coop. (2) A protected, sectioned-off...
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    Found dead in my run with no injuries??

    One of my birds had a heart attack on Sunday (I sent her in for a necropsy, underlying cause of the heart attack not known at this time) and I attended a "troubleshooting poultry health" talk on Tuesday -- apparently if the bird has a heart attack, she or he will typically be on their back with...
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    Wyandotte chicken heat hardy???

    We have Wyandottes (golden and silver-laced) in NJ; our summers are pretty humid and get into the 90s and they seem to do okay. I've only gone through 2 summers with them, though, so grain of salt. We have tons of shade -- their coop is under an oak tree and they have a pine tree and three...
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    All the classic, bad symptoms -- worms??

    Just an update, in case someone comes across this thread. This hen died on Sunday :( We ended up worming her, which didn't make a difference, and then separating her in a chicken wire enclosure with a nice bush during the day; she had food and water and it was next to the rest of the flock's...
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    Dying chicken, please help

    I'm sorry you're going through this -- one of ours is currently ailing and it's so frustrating not to know how exactly to treat it. From my reading, keeping the sick chicken warm, safe and with access to water and food is the first step. This link talks about how to try to identify the issue (or...
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    All the classic, bad symptoms -- worms??

    Well no vets offered the service, so I ordered the fecal test online and I got the NutriDrench, which I'm administering today. Unfortunately, she seems worse today -- barely drinking any water but she does eat some mash (wetted layer ration mixed with broiler ration). We are going to use...
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    All the classic, bad symptoms -- worms??

    It's more of a milky white with greenish-brown fecal matter in there too. I work from home, so I'm trying to haunt her a little bit and see if I can catch any normal/healthy droppings too. I haven't had luck today (i.e. she hasn't pooped in front of me when I go out for 5 minutes at a time). Her...
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    All the classic, bad symptoms -- worms??

    Thank you -- I will call all of those dog/cat vets today and double-check whether they would do a fecal float test; it sounds like, from what I've read on here, some non-avian vets will do that test anyway. Unfortunately, I haven't seen a "normal" poop from her but I also haven't seen that many...
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    All the classic, bad symptoms -- worms??

    Thank you for replying! The whole flock (4 birds) stopped laying mid-September and 3 of them dropped their feathers VERY quickly. 1 of the 4 is fully feathered again and has started laying again and 2 are past looking like porcupines but are not laying yet. She hasn't obviously molted or laid an...
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    All the classic, bad symptoms -- worms??

    Thank you for your reply! All 4 of the birds stopped laying mid-September and 3 of them obviously started molting. We worried for a bit when laying seemed to dial back but then we started noticing feathers everywhere! 1 of the 4 is fully feathered again and has started laying again and 2 are...
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    All the classic, bad symptoms -- worms??

    Hello all -- I've been haunting these threads since my husband and I got our first chicks last May and thank you for all of the guidance and information! I'm hoping that someone may have answers for my current situation. Our Golden Laced Wyandotte (about 18 months old) is showing all of the...
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