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    help with recurrent pasty butt

    Today she was much better!! She seemed her normal self and I saw her first thing this morning poop a perfectly normal healthy poop that did not stick to her bum! I felt for swelling but I think she is ok, its a bit hard she is our heaviest hen so I kept wondering is she just fat or swollen...
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    help with recurrent pasty butt

    Febendazole capsules individually fed to each chicken. Im sorry I should clarify, I did not notice the yellow diarrhea until today. Previously she might have had some loose poo but not yellow and not this much like diarrhea, more solid I believe. She has had pasty butt, but the color and...
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    help with recurrent pasty butt

    she actually stopped laying eggs this fall with her big molt, usually she lays for me in the fall but none of my hens are laying with the winter coming on so I didn’t think much of that but maybe theres something to it. I didn’t watch her or isolate her to see if she had any normal poops or just...
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    help with recurrent pasty butt

    I gave her a warm bath after the picture! boy she loved it warm!! I wish Id tried that before. Also put yeast cream on her vent and a some orally just in case, but her crop seems fine and notice no odor
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    help with recurrent pasty butt

    We have our queen of the flock, dorothy a barred rock that is coming up on 3 years old. This year she has dealt with pasty butt and we can’t get it resolved. Its been a rollercoaster it seems gone then comes back. Ive bathed her twice and tried yeast infection cream on her vent but she finds the...
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    impacted crop, fowl pox, grape worm

    I can make a crop bra ans see if that could help her, I read in that article about a molasses flush I have molasses how would I go about doing that and would you recommend it?
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    impacted crop, fowl pox, grape worm

    in the article it talked about massaging the crop upward! I had thought I was supposed to massage downward because going upward could cause vomitting? When I massage her crop it loudly gurgles (amazing how loud it can be) as it empties. She usually seems to like the crop massage but just today...
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    impacted crop, fowl pox, grape worm

    no her crop does not empty overnight I check first thing. We do not have granite grit but can go get some! Ok thats good to know about the dark spot. Her crop has always been that way since she was a chick Im not sure if its a deformity or hereditary maybe. One of our hens bullies her right now...
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    impacted crop, fowl pox, grape worm

    is there anything else we can do for her poor crop? today is day 2 of the olive oil treatment and shes still definetely struggling
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    impacted crop, fowl pox, grape worm

    we started the olive oil in a dropper treatment for impacted crop, and then a crop massage. She seems improved! her crop is still not draining except manually. She had strength to finally get back outside with her friends. I did notice she burped/vomitted a tiny bit of something yesterday, i...
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    impacted crop, fowl pox, grape worm

    heres our honey girl! she has the one black spot on her leg
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