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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    It’s not water belly, it’s definitely an egg issue. We’re going to try the antibiotics like Azygous suggested, at this point we have nothing to lose 😅 she’s acting fine, bright red comb, eating and drinking, pecking around. So I’m not going to cull her (we have a local vet that doesn’t seem to...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    Thank you @azygous and @Eggcessive, I somehow didn’t see these follow up posts. I have some antibiotics I bought a while back, so I’ll try that. At this point, it’s worth a try. I had seen the posts where y’all said to stop the baths and calcium, so I did that. We have just put her back out with...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    Thank you! I just checked, she definitely isn’t swollen in front of her legs… behind her legs in her vent area she feels swollen (but she’s a big chicken and I’m not sure if she’s always been so big there because I never really checked before this). Should I try to draw fluid out or no since...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    @Eggcessive @azygous I was trying to think of some people who really know their stuff when it comes to chickens, I know there is one more member who has really helped me in the past but I can’t remember their user name. My hen is not getting better and I’m hoping y’all can help point me in the...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    @Eggcessive I started her on the calcium citrate with vit-d on Friday morning. Since then she laid 1 or 2 more soft eggs or none daily. Today she finally laid a “regular” egg, however, it’s still really big like the ones she was laying before she started having issues with the soft shells...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    She’s on new country Organics layer feed, I gave her some cantaloupe too but she’s not eating so far this morning. Running up to get some calcium now! I do have some purina layer feed still if you think I should give her that instead? It’s crumbles… I attached a picture of her feed, maybe it’s...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    What I thought was one was 3 shell-less eggs 😯 I put some tums in her water just based on what I read on other posts, but this seems a little different than what anyone else has posted? I’m going to go to the store to get some calcium pills to give her now and I gave her another epsom salt bath...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    This morning this is what I saw when I went in to check on her… it’s another shell-less egg. Anyone have any ideas?
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    ...Country Organics no soy or corn feed and they have a large outside fenced in area in addition to the coop and run. Thanks so much for any insight. *I thought I had taken a picture of her super large eggs, I used them today because I was curious if they were double yokes because they were so...
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    Necropsy Pictures- Warning Graphic! Third hen I’ve lost so I cut her open and I need experienced eyes

    Thank you Eggcessive! That’s good to know that what I thought was the kidneys wasn’t and that’s it normal for there to be poop in there. It was definitely fermenting and smelled of septic, all of it did, from her crop down. Most of our hens haven’t been laying, but there seems to be a weird...
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    Necropsy Pictures- Warning Graphic! Third hen I’ve lost so I cut her open and I need experienced eyes

    I just had our 3rd hen die of the same thing in 4 months. So I cut her open after she died, all 3 hens got an impacted crop and her gizzard was impacted. I finally worked up the nerve to do more than just check the crop after they died. I didn’t find anything that looked like it would have...
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    3rd chicken to die with this…. Has anyone else had this happen?

    Thank you all, I’ll see if I can answer all the questions… I know about the articles on sour crop and impacted crops, I read the articles, we treated for both of those things and we got tons of instruction from people who have had issues with those 2 things, even the author of the articles. So...
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    3rd chicken to die with this…. Has anyone else had this happen?

    Good Morning, In the last few months we’ve had 2 chickens have to be put down and now a third has the same issue. I’m just waiting for the vet to open to see if we can get her an appointment to be put down… what happens is their crop gets really hard and full, but you can still somewhat move it...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    We took her to the vet and they put her to sleep… best decision for her but such a hard call to make. Thank you for all your help as we tried to get her crop to empty, we did all we could, even before she swallowed the tube she wasn’t pooping much (I checked again this morning), her breath...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    It was just already a cut size in the kit I bought 😕 I realize now that it was definitely too short… my husband doesn’t want to do the surgery 😭 he is worried that it won’t work and she will suffer more. So if I can’t talk him into it we will have to wait and see if our vet can get her in and we...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    She swallowed the tube when my son pulled the syringe out to refill it 😭😭 we’re trying to get her into the vet but both exotics are in surgery this morning… at this point I may try crop surgery myself, because she’s going to die anyway if the vet can’t see her and they can’t do surgery and I...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    I just went out and followed your directions, nothing came out. It feels maybe a little smaller than it did around 11:15 (it’s now 2:20 my time). I did that as soon as I got home just now. It’s not like it’s almost normal, but not overflowing anymore… So should I check her again in a few hours...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    @azygous I’m sorry to bother you again… I just had a quick question and I wanted to ask before it becomes and issue (if it even does). What do I do if her crop doesn’t empty after the first flush? It’s been 3 hours and I just went out to check on her and when I picked her up and felt her crop it...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    We did it for the first time this morning! I got her crop as empty as I could before we did it, thankfully my teen helped me because I couldn’t seem to get the tube to go down all the way into her crop and he did it the first try 😅 it was super full afterwards and she seemed to be kinda leaning...
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    Vet put my hen with sour crop on antibiotics… should I/can I also give her monistat?

    Thank you! I’ve done that in the past and I even tried it when my first hen was sick but I think she was too far gone at that point. I’ll try it again soon… do you use your regular feed? We give our girls crumbles, they won’t eat pellets for some reason. And when I ferment feed I use an organic...
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