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    Impacted crop on 2-day-old silkie?

    One of our chicks- a 2-day old silkie is periodically opening & closing its mouth (as tho gasping for air) and when I just held her, I could see chick feed in her mouth. I'm wondering if she has an impacted crop... They are on pine shavings under a broody mama hen (yay! it worked!). I've heard...
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    Broody hen adopting chicks: ARE THEY OK?

    We introduced 4 day-old baby chicks to our 3-weeks-broody hen last night without a hitch. They just crawled right under her and she didn't peck them or anything. This morning I went out there and the silkie was huddled outside of the nest on the far side of the brooder like she had been...
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    hen did a backflip & died...

    I'm more vexed than anything. Our 2-y-o Buff Orpington chicken was sitting happily- had been acting normally all day-- then suddenly craned it's neck & gagged like it was choking. It tried to feel it's crop or neck to see if there was anything lodged--- I didn't feel anything out of the norm...
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    Introducing chicks to broody hen

    So we just got some day-old chicks to slip under our broody Buff Orpington for the FIRST TIME. She'd been sitting on eggs for 21 days, so we figured it was time. After reading some threads on here, it sounded like we could introduce them while it was still light (so we could see) instead of...
  5. shirauo

    Botched Crop Surgery? HELP!!

    This is me 2nd time doing the crop surgery on a bird and I'm so worried I did something wrong- I don't want to put a bird in danger due to my own squeamishness, yet I don't want to put her through "too much" all at once. Ok- from the beginning: Our Barred Rock is about 1.5yrs old-- our best...
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    barespots with dry sores... Is it some kind of bug? [photos]

    We have 4 hens, all about 1.5 yrs old and pretty fat & healthy We noticed that instead of the 3-4 eggs we've been getting regularly, we've suddenly started getting only 2/day the past couple of days. Upon investigating, I noticed that the underbelly of one of the chickens is bare in places...
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    Post-Op Concerns from Crop Impaction Surgery

    We finally did the crop impaction surgery ourselves on Friday night. Last night (24 hours later) it felt like there was water in our hen's crop. This morning, It felt like it was still there. It's small- like maybe it has 2 ounces of water. At this point- after 24 hours on just water...
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    Abnormal Soft Egg with "Vascular" Yolk & grizzle

    Yesterday we found the oddest thing: 2 soft eggs with no yolk the size of quarters-- next to stool (perhaps pieces of the debris from the oddity described below) and 1 soft egg with tissue hanging out and a "red" yolk. I found these pics on the internet with NO INFO on what happened to the...
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