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    Large crop help

    Normal? It's better than last night but her crop is still huge from earlier and she's making sick chicke pose again and I can't get her crop to empty for anything.
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    Large crop help

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    Large crop help

    Okay...so it was empty this morning and I tried to let her go be a chicken. She still is happy, but now her crop is HUGE and is getting harder (like wet sand in a balloon). I've officially caged her in the garage. I tried to empty it and nothing will budge. I'm getting monistat when I get back...
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    Large crop help

    It doesn't smell yeast-y though. Tonight it was hard :( I couldn't get anything to come out. Despite that, she's acting more normal than she was a couple days ago...no puffy stance, no tucked in head. Active, curious, cleaning herself, socializing (I've kept her in the coop and rotate 2 other...
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    Large crop help

    I'm having an issue with one of my hens (13 weeks), and I'm hoping for clarification on what to do. Timeline of events: Thursday - notice crop was a bit large. Friday - sick hen pose, crop even larger by evening, drained crop Saturday - drained crop morning and night, kept from food but given...
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    Poop

    We are on a tight budget, and my heat lamp clamp is amazingly strong. We bought a second light at our local feed store and immediately returned it because I can see how people have trouble with them slipping. Maybe next time, but we don't plan on hatching a ton of eggs. If I go off of feather...
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    Poop

    Red heat lamp, I move it up when I start to see them sleeping on the other side. It's actually a lot cooler in there than the 90 or whatever it's supposed to be at. I stopped measuring the temp because what the temp was telling me was different than what the chicks were telling me.
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    Poop

    No picture, but I can get one tomorrow if its important. It usually does make a powerful smell, but its more watery than what I thought was cecal. I don't think they are too warm, and anyway when it happened tonight they were out of the brooder while I was cleaning it (and had been for 5...
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    Poop

    I hatched my own chicks and don't currently have any older chickens. Is it normal to occasionally have a splashy watery poop? They are 2 weeks old and have plenty of normal looking poops, but occasionally one will let out a sprayer. Everyone looks good, no one is acting funny. I've been feeding...
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    Bedding and cleaning

    There was shelf liner under the paper towels, so it wasn't just the towels. I put the pine shavings down tonight, but they are angry, lol. After an hour of complaining, I couldn't take the noise and put a couple sheets of paper over the pine and immediately a handful flocked to it. It's not...
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    Bedding and cleaning

    Chicks are almost 2 weeks. I've been using paper towels so I can easily remove all the waste, but in the last two days the chicks (17 of them in a storage tub) have started to explode with poop (while also going through about twice as much water and food). I think it's time to switch to bedding...
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    Watch the chicks? or the temperature?

    Okay, fair enough. I'll just keep following what they seem to need.
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    Watch the chicks? or the temperature?

    Right now they are in a storage box with a heat lamp. They are 1 week old tomorrow, and they seem to like the temperature way lower than the "normal". It makes me nervous, but when I try to bring the light closer so its actually in the range it should be...they go sleep on the other side of the...
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    Temp variation limits

    LOL maybe. No worries, it just means I have an excuse to do a second incubation if we don't get enough girls :) Or rather, I've already started planning the next hatch. I think the next time, I may just stick to Americauna and RIRs, instead of driving far for fancy chickens/eggs.
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    Temp variation limits

    I picked up, it was a 2 hour drive...but the weather was so cold in the week leading up to it, and she gave me a lot of old eggs (she claimed she never had trouble incubating cold or old eggs...even though I knew better). I had specifically timed my visit to get eggs on the warmest weekend, but...
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