Hi,
A few years ago I thought I found the holy grail of chicken feed, NCO. But starting last year I've noticed a decline in quality. Used to be a rich color and lots of variety and now it's turned into a pale mix with lots of leftover powder, cracked yellow peas and so many pea shells I have to...
I talked to a few vets yesterday to see what they do for impacted crops. The Avian vet did the incision to clean the crop out. That w/a 2 day stay was 1000 dollars. Then got a call back from a farm vet who knew chickens very well, experienced and he suggested to flush it out. Another called...
Hi,
Marsha (Olga's mom) here looking at the site for treatment of Impacted Crop.
I went straight to this article featured on the website:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/impacted-slow-and-sour-crops-prevention-and-treatments.67194/
I saw that Dulcolax was a form of treatment. I...
Our only EE laid balled up laying still, feathers everywhere as the fox ran out. This happened in the middle of the night last night. My daughter was awakened by the horses and chickens clucking. I carried Olga to the house and laid her down. Her neck is so limp and she just lays there with eyes...
We discovered today that one of our hens has a wound of ripped skin under her wing. It's is exposed all of the 'breast meat". The flap of skin is just hanging there. The area is about 3" wide x about 2" high. We aren't sure how this happened. Maybe the rooster.
We took her to the vet, but she...
Hi,
My name's Marsha but I'll go by Loona here, since Loona, my Austraporp is the reason I joined.
I've been reading this website for quite a while, since we got our flock of chicks in May of 2014.
I love it! Had chickens growing up, and have a 10 year old daughter who loves birds. Was...