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    Chicks Aren't Growing, Chickens Stopped Laying

    All is not well in chicken heaven and I'm at a loss for what's going on. Our batch of 5-1/2 week old chicks isn't getting any bigger? The chick I hatched from the incubator 3 weeks ago is now the same size as they are. They had been progressing normally up until 3 weeks ago when they suddenly...
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    Impacted Crop Surgery (with video)

    Thank you! She's such a sweet hen. All hens are not created equally when it comes to personality! My vet is amazing! I won't say how much it cost, but I will say it was not much - very little with all things considered. She was just as excited to have the opportunity to do the procedure...
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    Impacted Crop Surgery (with video)

    The vet handed me permeasured syringes to take home and I didn't check the dose. It was probably only a cc or so, but I can't say for sure. She stayed in the house and got one dose a day, in the thigh, for a week. Soft foods only. She's doing great now... and has even moved up in the pecking...
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    Impacted Crop Surgery (with video)

    We only had to pluck a few feathers from the area. She had recently gone broody and was already bald-ish there. The vet just plucked the rest. Plus the outer feathers covered the bald area so she and the others left it alone.
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    Impacted Crop Surgery (with video)

    Cool. Thanks for the apron tips pwand. I can handle that.
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    Impacted Crop Surgery (with video)

    I will attempt to answer the questions that I am able to, but as I am not the vet and would not have been comfortable performing this myself, I did not get too many specifics on procedural execution. The incision site was about 1" - 1-1/2" opening. She made the initial cut directly on the...
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    Impacted Crop Surgery (with video)

    Thanks, as you can tell from the video, we were all amazed too. The vet used lidocaine to numb the incision area, which stings at first, but helped a lot. Poor thing fell asleep a few times during the procedure... probably from relaxing and also from fatigue from trying survive the impaction...
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    Impacted Crop Surgery (with video)

    We discovered our favorite little bantam hen, Gidget was wasting away due to an impacted crop. I have been nursing her for the past few days, trying a number of the solutions I have read throughout the forums. Once I realized that no real progress was going to be made (that would actually save...
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    Just Have to Know... The Speculations are Driving Us Bananas...Male or Female??

    No offense taken at all! I am laughing pretty hard at that comment too. My 2 year old niece can even pick out hen or rooster in her toddler-aged farm animal books. Sounds funny now that I think of it. Just got a lot to learn. Also, not so sure #4 or #6 are hens (despite my deepest of hopes)...
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    Just Have to Know... The Speculations are Driving Us Bananas...Male or Female??

    Thank you all for confirming this for us. I suppose for some reason I was hoping since their breeds were a mixed variety, that my eyes could be deceiving me. However there was NO way that I would have ever guessed I would end up with 5 out of 7 as males! Go figure the odds of that! I am...
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    Just Have to Know... The Speculations are Driving Us Bananas...Male or Female??

    Which one? Just #1? I'm assuming that's the one you were referring to since I was still adding pictures. (Yes, we really need to name them... just as soon as we know what gender they are) lol!
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