Since it's going down on its own, it's not impacted or at least not impacted badly. It doesn't smell so probably not sour crop.
She's probably hungry so I'd let her eat but make sure she drinks a lot too. I still think probiotics could help as well.
Maybe someone knows the equivalent of products we use for bumblefoot, but sometimes just using a drawing cream, we call PRID, might be what the vet gave you.
This article explains how to get the scab off and core out with a tweezers. It will bleed and when you're done, you'll need to put some...
She's a wild bird, so you can't do anything to confine her or that could be breaking federal law. If she wants to go in the coop of her own accord and you're okay with that, then I'm not seeing the harm. I think the worry of her possibly carrying diseases, lice, or mites is far gone by now...
Hi, just making sure you knew there already was a question of the day series running constantly, done by Casportpony. It might compete slightly or with each other.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/question-of-the-day-saturday-september-21st-2024.1641218/page-2#post-28034964
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Her crop should be pretty full when she goes to roost at night, then feel pretty empty in the morning. I'm thinking probiotics might help as they help the digestive system. Hydro-Hen is one product for their water we have. There are many, or Greek yogurt is good too, just a tblsp or so...
Is your dust bath like in a kitty litter box or just in the dirt?
In the winter, ours is in a kitty litter box in the coop. The cats go in there but don't use it as they don't like staying in there one minute longer than they have to...not sure why. In the summer, they have about 5 of them in...
It's sure worth a shot!
Just a few days ago I had the last egg they had to hatch thrown out of the nest, over the railing, down to the wooden floor 2.5 feet below, apparently the night before. I found it in the morning, 50F, ice cold, but not cracked or broken, which was a miracle in itself...
Gosh, I'm in the North. I hope it blooms every year! Maybe it's the strain as I didn't read anything about skipping years, but then again, maybe I missed it.
These look a tish young yet, but so beautiful!!
Silkies can't be sexed positively until they are around 4 months old. I have a couple of them a bit older I'm still not absolute on.
The key areas are the comb, hackles, and tail. Cockerals will start getting a thicker comb which will start...
The antibiotic would make vent gleet worse, and she'd need a course of probiotics just to counter the antibiotic, not to mention help with vent gleet.
We ferment grain here, but albeit starting something new, I'd go buy some Greek yogurt and give her a little of that every day. We use...
I've seen adult silkies for sale at a couple of hatcheries and a couple of exhibition breeders but those are very expensive and I doubt that's what you're looking for. One hatchery I saw offering sexed silkie chicks. They must do their own DNA there. The chicks were about double the cost, but...
I sounds to me like she's purposely making that squeaky noise. I've heard some strange noises come from mostly my hens but that if I heard it, it didn't continue. Is she perhaps talking to the others about something, like "get away from me," type of warning, or she just does that all the time...