Recent content by Solar chook

Hello again folks, my 18month old leghorn, Alice, is limping. I have attached photos. She is laying, eating, drinking, scratches herself with the poorly foot but cant hold her weight on it to use the good leg for scratching etc. Ive looked through the other threads here regarding limping. I cant...

Ok thanks ill try that.

It stays the same size all the time and feels quite firm but loose under the skin, like a bag of solid grain inside a deflated balloon (gross 😬) cant really feel anything specific. She is eating/drinking like the others and runs fast to greet me at the run gate so she seems ok to me (as a...

Im going to try something i read about involving olive oil & a syringe (without the needle!) in her beak then massaging the crop. After that is the only option a vet diagnosis? Getting really worried now.

Thank you for your good wishes. I hope so too, probably wont get much sleep tonight tho!

Thank you so much for that. Ill check her tomorrow, they are in bed right now. Hope its not the cancer or internal layin scenario.

Thank you. The lump is always there morning and night, it doesnt change.

Thank you. i have a problem with one of my ex battery girls. She has a large lump on her neck. Dont know if its an impacted crop or a goiter or something else… she was like this when we got her 6mths ago but thought she was maybe just made that way! But shes not getting her feathers back like...

1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes, got first 8 six months ago. Ex battery hens so they were in a bit of a state poor girls. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 8 (3) What breeds do you have? Rhode island red i think! (4) What are your favorite aspects of...