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    Is it time to say goodbye?

    This girl started having issues with enlarged crop the last week in September. I withheld food for 24 hours serving only water. I vomited her successfully a few times. By the weekend of Oct. 3rd and 4th she seemed to be ok. I left my chickens in care of a neighbor while on vacation for 6 days...
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    Distended Crop No Sour Smell

    I have a pullet with a distended crop. It's soft and squishy. It makes gurgling sounds. I've emptied it several times on multiple days, and the liquid ejected doesn't smell sour. I've read the sour smell is pretty strong with sour crop. I've isolated her and am feeding her water with a tiny...
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    Possible Sour Crop?

    I have a situation that may be sour crop that has a bit of a history. It's a long story but I'll distill it: I purchased chicks from McMurray Hatchery. They were healthy when they got here and seemed to progress normally. As they got older I realized they weren't growing as fast as they should...
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    Pygostyle broken off of hen

    One of my girls is an unintended frizzle. Shes 4.5 and no longer lays. I’ve rescued her several times when she’s been puny. The last month she’s been avoiding the other birds, staying in the coop mostly while the others free range. Roosting in the coop instead of out in the covered yard in a...
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    Undersized Chicks at 18 Weeks

    I’m raising my second batch of babies. They’ve been on starter grower...free choice for 18 weeks. I’ve been using Bartlett’s. My chics are nowhere big enough to integrate with the four adults I have left from my first group that I got in 2016. I’ve also supplemented with grass, Swiss chard...
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    Hi from the North Carolina mountains...

    I'm not new to Backyard Chickens but somehow I've never gotten around to introducing myself. I've had a flock since 2016. I started out with six. From the original flock, I still have four, one of which, an unintended frizzle, hasn't laid at all this season. In January or early February, we...
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    Almost 8 weeks old and one's feather's are really slow coming in...

    Hi, I've got six pullets (or supposed to be), and they will be eight weeks old Saturday. There are three RI-Reds and three P-Barred Rocks. All of the girls have their adult feathers but one of the Barred Rocks--Janie. When her adult feathers started coming in, they were sort of curled on the...
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    Do I have a sick chick?

    Hi, I got my chickens on May 9th. They were probably hatched on May 7th--so about 31/2 weeks today. All but one seem to be progressing normally with good feather growth. One of the Plymouth Barred Rocks seems to be very slow on feather growth. She sits on her hocks and doesn't roam as...
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