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    Comment by 'Michellemcg' in article 'How to treat sour crop and impacted crop and how to know which one you're dealing with'

    What are your thoughts on deworming? Any particular dewormer you suggest? Dosage?
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    Sour crop

    She’s a little over a year old. She does lay but not consistently, and her eggs are always strange: egg inside of an egg, double yolks, soft shells, and she hasn’t laid for a couple of weeks before this all started. We haven’t dewormed, just used diatomaceous earth. How do I worm? Her crop this...
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    Sour crop

    Hi all. is there a cure for sour crop other than making the chicken vomit? My girl has been battling this boggy, water balloon feeling crop for going on two weeks. We currently have her isolated in the run, away from free access to food, but full access to water, and we’ve been giving garlic...
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    Comment by 'Michellemcg' in article 'How to treat sour crop and impacted crop and how to know which one you're dealing with'

    Thank you!! I do Believe that chicken psychologically is a real thing for sure!!!! What do you recommend to help my girls crop decrease? We’re treating with monistat, but do you suggest adding coconut oil too? Just trying to get that water balloon gone.
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    Comment by 'Michellemcg' in article 'How to treat sour crop and impacted crop and how to know which one you're dealing with'

    So, she wants to rejoin them and is desperate for her sisters, but they’re just attacking her. We did put the two meanest, ironically the ones she was closest to, up and just let her free range with the other (i only Have 4), and that worked well, but when do i add The others to the mix? Also...
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    Comment by 'Michellemcg' in article 'How to treat sour crop and impacted crop and how to know which one you're dealing with'

    Great article!!!! I only wish i would Have found it sooner… my girl has a huge, water balloon crop, and i isolated Her immediately because she was so lethargic and weak acting, hiding in the coop, not eating, etc, and we tried to reintroduce today, it’s only been 2 days, and she was picked on...
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    4 legged chick Clover

    I have Loved reading this thread!!!! None of this happened by chance.... clover was meant to be with you!!!!! Best of luck for a long, spunky life being a happy chicken!!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
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    Stressed rooster at new farm

    Thank you so much, Mrs k!! I needed To hear this! Everything in me wants to rescue him, but he doesn’t need rescuing, and bringing him back will only make it worse. Thank you for responding. I needed To hear these words 🥰❤️💙 i never Expected to grow this attached to these feathery babies as i...
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    Stressed rooster at new farm

    Hello my fellow chicken friends!! I need Your advice! We incubated and hatched chicks back in April, and we kept 5 of them. We live inside the city limits and we cannot keep any roosters. We had a splash Cochin, who was everyone’s favorite including all my kiddos who he just let cuddle him like...
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    Roo or hen?!?

    Let me get one. Not great ones
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    Roo or hen?!?

    We incubated these blue/white Cochin babies. They’re 11 weeks tomorrow. I’m thinking this one might be a roo based on his comb and waddle, but he has yet to crow and is super docile. What are your thoughts?
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    Integration oddities or normal behavior?

    Im so happy it’s working 🤞🏼🤞🏼 What do you have on the floor of your run?
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    Warning about Harris Farms Nuture Right 360 Incubator.

    We hatched 11 chicks in the 3.0 with no issues whatsoever!! Best of luck to you!!!
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