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    Mites?

    Get some Exzolt. It was recently passed by the FDA. I’ve been using it for years and it wipes them right out.
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    Are these mites? And how should I get rid of them?

    Yeah I saw the FDA approved it a few weeks ago. I got a small bottle from overseas a couple years ago. It’s a miracle treatment for mites. I don’t think there’s supposed to be any withdrawal time for eggs, but there was for meat birds. We withdraw a week of eggs anyway and then for a nother few...
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    Are these mites? And how should I get rid of them?

    Get your hands on some Exzolt if you can. It wipes them right out for months.
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    What can I put in water to repel mites?

    Can you get ahold of some Exzolt?
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    Bird Mites

    How did the Exzolt work for you? I got my hands on some a couple of years ago and it’s been a godsend for controlling the northern fowl mites here. A little goes a long way too. My birds are pretty much mite free within a few days after treatment.
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    Thanks for the thoughtful post. Our original 10 girls have always had a different bond with us versus the other 2 flock additions. I assume it’s because all they had was us while flocks 2 and 3 eventually gravitated toward the big sissies with time. We had a vague idea of what to do when we got...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    Just want to follow up here and thank you for your help. We lost her yesterday morning. She died quickly and peacefully in the run with her flockmates after spending one cold night inside the house. We had some babysteps of improvement on Monday and Tuesday. She was eating the egg, rice, and...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    Her crop is ballooned out again despite not eating or drinking anything more. I’m not sure anything is even reaching her digestive system. She just excreted a small amount of urates…nothing solid and no sign of feces. She looks awful. Just sitting with her eyes shut.
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    She ate a little bit of the soft yolk and rice. I held her and gave her a good crop massage and she gave a little burp. I’ve been trying to knead bottom-up while occasionally holding her crop up in case the muscles around it are getting too weak to do it herself. It felt like it may have gone...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    I can’t really notice a smell with it now. I’m mostly picking up the scent of the sweet pdz. The yellow bits were semi solid…more like the consistency of undercooked scrambled eggs versus mucous.
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    I can’t feel anything solid in her crop. Just liquid and squishiness. When I had massaged it it felt like it may have been going down a bit, but it just expands back out. I wouldn’t say it’s extra large and bulging or anything…just not emptying. Of course she isn’t eating much either…and nothing...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    No real improvement this morning although she did pass some poop that is concerning. It’s mostly runny urates with some yellow bits in it which makes me worried she has a reproductive disease like egg peritonitis. She has had eggs break in her many times before, she gets sick, and then improves...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    I didn’t see her eat all day, but she did have a couple sips of water. I got the M7 in her 3x. She came out to free range with everyone else this evening, but she was slow walking. After exiting she did a small, wet cecal poop. I went to check on her at one point and she was pulling earthworms...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    I definitely don’t feel any material in there…just sponginess or liquid. My wife and I just gave her a dose and her breath reeked. So I’m confident of sour crop, but like you said I’m not sure if there’s another underlying problem. She had some roundworms this summer so we dewormed them with...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    One of my 6.5 year old hens is lethargic, weak, and has lost a lot of weight. Her crop is not emptying, but it feels squishy and spongey…not hard. I’ve been trying to massage her crop every hour or so, but there’s little to no draining. She is slightly pooping some liquid, but it’s mostly...
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