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    Benadryl to Euthanize Chicken?

    My vet gases them, until they are unconscious, then she sticks the heart.
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    Benadryl to Euthanize Chicken?

    How do you hold the head still?
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    Sour Crop Not Resolving, crop not emptying... Crop Blockage? Treatment?

    @tori729 Who was your vet who performed this? I lost a hen to crop stasis (she developed every single molt) and when the vet did a basic necropsy, she couldn't find anything abnormal.
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    Sour crop question…is it time to euthanize?

    I asked my rehabber friend to take her, as her crop was not moving and she was getting dehydrated. One morning, she found her dead. She thinks she aspirated. I asked my friend to take her because she would be able to euthanize her, but since my hen still looked interested in eating she kept...
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    Impacted and/or Sour crop treatment

    My vet told me I have to give nystatin 4x day! Fragile is an understatement. Shortly after that, I found another favorite dead in the coop. I had even dewormed earlier! That was the first hen I have ever found dead (besides the 12 that were killed by coyotes -- my little boy found them all...
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    Sour crop question…is it time to euthanize?

    @Apags18 I just want to let you know I wrestled with that question with my hen (a favorite) with sour crop. The first time she had crop stasis was when she was molting. We paid over $1000 for crop surgery and she was placed on Bactrim/meloxicam. She recovered, but I had to put over 2 months...
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    Impacted and/or Sour crop treatment

    What happened to your hen? I had a hen like this and her GI system would completely shut down with each molt. The second time, she didn't make it and when my friend who does rehab did a basic necropsy, she could not find anything unusual except for a lot of fat. Her fecal did show capillaria...
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    Treatment for worms and coccidosis

    Thank you! Forgot not to look for Valbazen, rather "Albendazole." I am considering using a pill though, like Bastonero plus.
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    Safeguard Aquasol Dewormer for Capillaria Worms?

    Just curious about Aquasol vs. Safeguard liquid goat wormer. Some people say that chickens cannot absorb the safeguard as well, since it is in a suspension, thus the higher dose. Valbazen as the liquid is on backorder indefinitely, unless pills can work/
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    Treatment for worms and coccidosis

    @Wyorp Rock I cannot seem to find Valbazen liquid, it is back-ordered everywhere. It is made in China I believe. What would you suggest for Capillaria. They do make Valbazen tablets, I wonder if I could calculate the dose and break the tablets.
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    Treatment for worms and coccidosis

    @dawg53 I just had a favorite hen die of Capillaria (most likely -- she had crop stasis) -- how do you treat with Valbazen (for how many days, then repeat? I read on one of your earlier posts that it is best to treat more often to break the cycle? My flock free ranges on 1/8 acre and they poop...
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    Help sour crop

    I don't think her fat necrosed. @Wyorp Rock Have you ever treated for Capillaria? I have Valbazen, Safeguard, and Aquasol -- I wonder which is best.
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    Help sour crop

    @Wyorp Rock Have you had hens have crop stasis during a molt. My 5 yo EE recently had this. In fact, the same time last year I had to have crop surgery and this year same time, her gut stopped moving food. The vet prescribed antibiotics, fenbendazole (she had Capillaria in her droppings)...
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    Correlation between molting and extremely slow crop?

    I think there is a correlation. I have a favorite hen who just past away from this. Last year we spent over $1000 on crop surgery for her. The thought was that she had a gizzard impaction. It was so sad watching her try to eat grit and drink water to clear it on her own. The crop stasis...
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    Crop That Won't Empty

    I have 2 LGDs that keep my free-roaming girls safe, but my girls constantly have worms (roundworms, hairworms, cecal worms) -- one of my neighbors keeps her hens penned and all her hens live twice as long as mine. I wonder if they just simply have less parasites from wild birds or insects.
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