Little update- She drank a little bit more. In like two hours im going to massage her crop just to make sure everything is moving through properly. She was talking a little with me when I was letting her drink.
Hi guys, recently one of my chickens has been laying soft eggs basically every morning. Today, instead of going out to eat and drink in the morning, she just went straight to the nesting box and refused to eat. I figured that maybe she was just cold and tired. So, I gave her a couple hours then...
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I have been taking care of my friends chickens while she is in France and I noticed something unusual on one of her chickens beak. I think it might be worms because they have not been dewormed.. What do you guys think?
Giving a chicken crop surgery is honestly pretty easy. I had a chicken that had a blocked crop and I watched some yt videos and almost did it myself. But she got better. I think the vets would be able to give her the surgery. You can also try giving her coconut oil or getting her a chicken bra...
Hm. I've never really dealt with respitory infections. Has your vet given you any prescriptions for meds? If you have vet rx, you can put it in his water.
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Some things I like to give my chickens to gain weight is, yogurt, mashed banana (I had to use a syringe down the throat to get my underweight chicken to eat it, just make sure you go slow.) You can add some water to the dry feed, just make sure that his crop doesn't get stuck. Some bread and wet...
Okay, I'll take a break. Maybe the extra calcium is confusing her body and causing her to lay more eggs? I'll stop for a bit. Days here in NJ are getting shorter really fast so maybe its because she isnt getting the amount of light she needs to make a good, healthy egg..? I'm also aware that...