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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    Hi @casportpony, I appreciate you reaching out! :hugs @Hjorstad, I'm so sorry I didn't see your message. You made an amazing effort to help your girl, I hope she made it through. ❤️ Creamsicle is, by some miracle, fine! I guess it really was just some kind of GI blockage and not tumors or some...
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    Comment by 'missbeasty' in article 'Chicken Eye Styes- Diagnosis and Treatment'

    Beautiful girl! Looks pretty similar to Nadja's bump. Hers is still visible, but has gone down considerably on its own without rupturing. How is your gal doing?
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    Comment by 'missbeasty' in article 'Chicken Eye Styes- Diagnosis and Treatment'

    Just noticed this on my girl Nadja… a stye?? :/ I’ll keep an eye on it, I suppose. (Don’t mind her poor vulture head, her sister likes to pick her feathers. 😑 Everyone’s a bit pale as well in this heat.)
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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    July 24 Evening: Creamsicle ate some eggs! July 27, 2025 Not too much going on the last few days, I’ve been too busy to attempt integrating the flock so I’ve just kept Cream kenneled with food and water on a plastic board. She has been eating a good amount, her crop feels normal, and she...
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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    Hi, so sorry for my delay in posting! Cream is doing well physically, but behaviorally, being a little weirdo. July 21, 2025 About the same today - I was gone a lot of the day running errands, so didn’t keep a close eye on her, but it doesn’t look like she ate much today and her crop was...
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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    July 19 Bedtime - tube-fed Kaytee Exact and massaged crop. July 20, 2025 Cream’s crop is EMPTY today!!!! 🙌:wee (I think.) Definitely no hard food lump, for the first time in weeks. I palpated her crop for a minute, trying to decide whether I could feel a soft/flappy foreign object or if it...
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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    Morning all :frow July 18 Bedtime - tube-fed 20 ml thick Kaytee Exact. July 19, 2025 Had a decent (but loose) poop with some cecal material overnight. Pellets look mostly untouched this morning, crop had a small, firm lump in it. I haven’t noticed any head/eye twitching, but she’s occasionally...
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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    Morning! About the same today, except for some strange high step walking. July 18, 2025 Cream is doing ok this morning, crop was small with about a tsp of firm/doughy food, super normal looking poop off the kennel perch. I don’t think she’s eating much on her own. She has also started...
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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    Morning! More poop for y’all to look at today. :p the shape of the urates looks weird and wormy, but upon investigation (i.e. digging in it with a stick) it just looks like some grass bits mixed in with normal food solids. July 17, 2025 Cream had a really nice big solid poop overnight, also...
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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    New poop just dropped! This chalky sea-foam / mint color is a new one for me. I stirred it up a bit with a stick to investigate the strange shapes and it looks like grass.. I would guess dead grass she consumed in the run on Sunday the 13th. The color is really throwing me for a loop...
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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    Morning folks! Cream is about the same today. I called my chicken vet and made an appointment for Tuesday the 22nd. I asked if the Dr. would do crop surgery if the situation called for it, and the receptionist thought she would. I expect she'll prescribe some kind of GI motility medication as a...
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    Hen's crop slow to move solids, probably not GI impaction? (Stable for now)

    Hello friends, I'm having some trouble with my girl Creamsicle. I've been working on her for a couple of weeks, reaching the end of my "troubleshooting" list and I'm at a loss. She has improved and is stable, but I'm starting to worry she won't survive if I discontinue aggressive interventions...
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    2-year-old Hen pooping an alarming amount of blood

    Hi all, sad news… I put Sprinkle to sleep this morning. She was not improving. Her crop wasn’t emptying at all and she was continuing to poop what looked like blood, presumably becoming more anemic every day. She was dehydrated and probably starving, barely able to stand. I assume she had some...
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    2-year-old Hen pooping an alarming amount of blood

    Morning all, Sprinkle is about the same this morning. A small amount of fluid is getting through, but her crop is extremely slow and I can still feel some small, flat (indigestible?) solids in there. She had a dropping that was just urine/urates, maybe she's done clearing that stinky blood? I...
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    2-year-old Hen pooping an alarming amount of blood

    Thanks for checking in, @SmiYa0126 . Sprinkle is hanging in there. Her crop is very slow right now. It was mostly full when I checked her in the morning. It emptied some after a lot of crop massage, so I topped her up with electrolyte water along with her morning dose of sulfatrim and...
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