I am on this thread because I bought some too, and noticed lots of dust in the air. I now just came out to four newly hatched silkie naked neck TEENSY WEENSY chicks, and am going to separate them and their "mothers!!!" (Silkies ascribe to the "it takes a village" mentality) to a new area...
I am so sorry to hear about your chicken. I don’t know much about crop problems but ran across this explanation of difficulties in fixing impacted crops (strangely) just a minute before I read your post. Hope it’s okay to share on here...
I’ve done this with one of those little mini rubber bands to a silkie who was terrified of everything. She is still spooky but she was very happy about seeing! She looked at me a long time! Never occurred to me she really only saw either my feet or fingertips when hand feeding!
I'm glad to have read this because I was wondering if it indicated a rooster? So, now I know some of them with the blue can be hens? :-). This is a good thing.
Hello from the good ol’ “Show ME” state.... where yesterday, my good chicken-friend showed me LICE on my chickens!!! One was stepping very carefully, and then losing balance. Upon inspection, I see crawlies on her.... whitish to tannish transparent creatures and what my friend said are egg...