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    Sour Crop/Impaction?

    bump - please!
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    Sour Crop/Impaction?

    Help! My Top roo is no longer Top Roo and recently really slowed down (so whatever happened, seems gradual) In retrospect, I think he's been moving his head around kind of funny lately (like something's stuck. I am not the chicken keeper, my daughter is, so I don't have more observations than...
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    How long blockage go through?

    Aha! Thank you! Do you just dilute it with water?
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    How long blockage go through?

    Woo Hoo Apparently she was talking because she had pooped out this: Which after I dissected with the toothpicks was determined to be twine. I'm thinking it was the vinegar which finally did it. She hasn't started eating yet, but she's definitely peppier. She can't go back down with her...
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    How long blockage go through?

    Thank you for that idea. Will try that if we can get her eating. I hear her talking, so I'll go see......
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    How long blockage go through?

    Her crop is empty. She has at least pecked at a few things. She was a little more active last evening she was preening, and talking to us. We tried giving her ACV to help break up the stuff (per other reading) - she liked it. She is doing black liquid poops more frequently. Does anyone...
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    How long blockage go through?

    Well, it's got solids in it, just sometimes water with it, or very loose. Anyone else? There's not going to be a vet to take her to.....
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    How long blockage go through?

    We brought one of our 8-9 month old Buff Orpington hens into the people house Thursday morning. She had been a little slow and not interested in food for a couple days (according to my chicken girl). When I examined her Thursday morning she had a golf ball sized lump in her crop. I massaged...
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    Do chickens peck plastic sheet/tarps?

    tdub4 - We definitely have a hawk around - my son created a network of baling twine from a very tall pole in the middle of the pen out to fence posts on the sides - looks like a cross between a circus tent and a spider's web. Very swamp yankee So far it seems to have worked well, haven't...
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    Do chickens peck plastic sheet/tarps?

    The one I'm getting receives their choice of covers - not to be less than this : http://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies/prod1;ft1_covers_pondliners-ft1_covers;pgcc4601.html They have a more expensive one that is supposed to last 15 years - if you look under the clear span buildings on their...
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    Do chickens peck plastic sheet/tarps?

    Thanks all - And thank you for commenting on daytime predators. We have our own dog who is very good about the chickens and have yet to see another dog anywhere in the vicinity. I have been thinking about predators and this thing. They will be in a very secure coop at night. This spring...
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    Do chickens peck plastic sheet/tarps?

    Just ordered a Farmtek hoop building. Has polyproplene cover - so not really plastic sheet, but close. Ends will be chicken wire. We are intending to use it for their winter snow free run (live in syracuse, ny). Do I need to run some chicken wire around the inside of the base so they...
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    Tell me about my 12wk bantam sweetie-pie, please!

    Okay, I was fairly certain she was a she. She didn't get so red until really recently......what else would point to roo?
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    Is this a crow?

    Quote: Green eggs are blue eggs with a brown coating on them. The blue egg gene is dominant, but with an EE you don't know what you'll end up with. If hatched to another EE, you'd probably get some birds with a pea comb (which is closely tied to the blue egg gene) and some with straight...
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    Tell me about my 12wk bantam sweetie-pie, please!

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