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    Impacted crop, impacted gizard, sour crop.....differences in each?

    Be very careful uing super glue LOL, I ended up sticking my chicken to the table after three attempts of trying to keep her glue together, Now i got suture needles from the internet and three stitches and she is fixed. I am going on the third time I am needing to open up my hen and will never...
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    Impacted crop, impacted gizard, sour crop.....differences in each?

    I am glad you got to your chicken before you had to open her up.. thru my chicken being so sick I have looked into the causes of sour rop and more so impacted crop. Its seems she either has a defective tube to her stomach or a growth that has narrowed this, It seems I am going to have to cut...
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    Impacted crop, impacted gizard, sour crop.....differences in each?

    I used no sedative, it took two of us to do it, we put a towel lover her head which seemed to make her calm. you have to have a very sharp, sterile scaple to do this. The towel seemed to subdue her and she didnt even flinch really when we cut her, it was when i ended up stitching heras the...
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    Impacted crop, impacted gizard, sour crop.....differences in each?

    Hi chilehd, I m so sorry to hear about your hen, very sad news. Let me tell you a little story about my experience and maybe if you are faced with this again you can act without having to put your babies down. I have hens and one inparticular I though was just being a greedy...
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    Impacted crop, impacted gizard, sour crop.....differences in each?

    I have a hen that had severe impacted crop. Yesterday after reading a web site me and my mother operated on her opening the crop about 2 cms and removing the contents. We followed all strict guide lines and streile environment, but today I am finding the wound is opening up and leaking, and...
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