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    Sick hen, stumped 🤔

    Thank you, I will check it out! I don’t think she laid the softshell egg. She lays blue eggs and the softshell one looked brown like my australorp’s eggs. She hasn’t laid an egg in at least 10 days. She was always a good layer.
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    Sick hen, stumped 🤔

    Hi everyone, I apologize ahead of time if this is long. I have a 4 year old cream legbar who has been acting funny and I can’t figure out how to treat her. Last Wednesday I threw out some treats to my chickens and noticed she wasn’t going for them like she usually does. I felt her crop and...
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    Sour crop?

    Thank you!! So I ended up bringing her to two different vets. The first vet admittedly didn’t know much about chickens at all. But he did empty her crop and take X-rays to make sure there wasn’t a blockage. When he emptied her crop, the entire office smelled like sewage. It wasn’t oatmeal like -...
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    Sour crop?

    Thank you! 🙏
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    Sour crop?

    Thanks! No grit or oyster shells either? Do you think I should give her the fluconazole?
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    Sour crop?

    Hello.. I have a hen with what I think is sour crop. This is my first time dealing with a crop issue so I’m not 100% if that’s what it is. I brought her to a vet yesterday but they were really unhelpful. He emptied her crop, did an X-ray to make sure there wasn’t a blockage, and gave me a...
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    Is this normal chick poo?

    Thanks! Now I’ll go delete all the chicken poo pics out of my phone 😂
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    Is this normal chick poo?

    Thanks for the reassurance!! Good to know, thank you!!
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    Is this normal chick poo?

    Hi, New chick mom here. One of my week old chicks has diarrhea. She’s acting normal, eating and drinking and the others chicks have normal poop. I’m feeding them medicated starter feed. Is this something I should worry about or could this be from the vitamins and electrolytes in their water? I...
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    Foundation help

    My township won’t allow me to have anymore 🙁 I’m already maxed out lol
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    Foundation help

    I referred to it as “large” because they sell three sizes. I only plan on having 4 chickens (that’s all my township will allow). You don’t think this will be big enough for 4 hens?
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    Foundation help

    Thanks! Did you put anything underneath the dirt and sand?
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    Foundation help

    Thanks for the info!! It does gets windy here but hopefully not windy enough to knock over a coop. I’m debating on whether to get the run they sell or not. My girls will be in the run when I’m not home so I want to make sure I get something decent.
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    Foundation help

    Oh wow, a decade! That’s awesome. I was worried about the quality because everyone always warns about prefab coops. I was originally going to get an Amish built one but the lead time on one of those is about 6-7 months now 😳 What size coop do you have? I’m only going to have 4 chickens but I...
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    Foundation help

    Lol Omelet, OverEZ... I can see how they can get mixed up! 😂 They sell tarps that fit over the run. Not sure how effective that would be though.
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