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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    One of my 6.5 year old hens is lethargic, weak, and has lost a lot of weight. Her crop is not emptying, but it feels squishy and spongey…not hard. I’ve been trying to massage her crop every hour or so, but there’s little to no draining. She is slightly pooping some liquid, but it’s mostly...
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    Flock Being Dewormed with Aquasol

    Quick question…yesterday was day 2 of the Aquasol treatment and I noticed a poop in the run late in the day with a large roundworm in it. It appeared to be dead. I assume this is a good sign? Is it common for them to expel worms in their system during treatment or do the worms usually get...
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    Fowl pox?

    This 6 y/o barred rock hen has had a rough year with her health (I think she had a minor stroke last summer), but she’s still been kicking. A few weeks ago she developed a whitish, raised, circular lesion on one of her wattles. She was barely eating and developed greenish poop. The last few days...
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    Hen broke her upper beak back to the nares

    The avian vet is booked until 10/22. I assume the upper beak growing back is a lost cause. I have no intentions on culling…we’ll help feed her if we have to. But we feed wet mash already so hopefully she can learn to scoop her food. She’s starting to molt too so the poor girl is in a lot of...
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    Declining 3 y/o cream legbar -- gape or mycoplasma?

    Normally this girl is full of life and lays 3-4 thick shelled blue eggs per week. I noticed a few months ago she stopped laying and started a slight molt. I thought it was strange considering it was June/July, but didn't get too concerned at first. Her main symptoms were major fatigue and...
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    Looking for poop analysis...sick hen

    This girl had egg material inside of her a couple years ago, got sick, then improved and didn’t lay again until coming out of her first molt. She seemed normal yesterday, but noticed she was listless this morning when coming out. The poop box confirms she has had an issue over the past 24 hours...
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    Chicken Gasping for Air

    OK...first a little background. She just turned 3 in May. She’s a bigger girl that has never had a lot of motivation to free range. Everyone else runs around and goes into the woods. She’s rather hang by the run and get pet by mama. Anyway, she never started laying again at the end of this...
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    Suprelorin Implant and internal laying prognosis

    Hey everyone, I have a 3 y/o barred rock who is almost definitely internally laying. She hasn’t laid an egg once this year. She has breathing issues at times when warm or when she eats, very purple comb, and small poops with a hint of yellowish egg material in it at times. My quote from the vet...
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    Bamboo in the chicken run

    I have a bunch of bamboo that I planted inside of my fenced in run last spring. I made mini cages around each one to protect them from the birds until they got tall enough. I have 4 taller runners in there (2 phyllstachys atrovaginatas, a P. aureosulcata 'spectabilis', and a P. parvifolia...
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    Shagbark Hickory Seeds

    Anyone have a surplus of seeds (nuts with the hull) that they don't want that are viable for planting? I'd love to get a grove of them going on my property, but they really need to be grown in the ground to develop a strong, deep taproot.
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    Cold hardy bamboo rhizomes

    Does anyone have any well established rhizomes they'd be willing to give/sell me? I bought a handful of different types a week ago to plant in the run, but I'd like to plant a bunch more rhizomes to really let it take off so they can have shade and leaves to munch on this summer. I'm looking...
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    Torn on which feed to go with...

    The scoop... The organic feed my store provides is from Green Mountain Feeds. Right now I'm fermenting the chick starter mash (21% protein) for all of my birds (hens and pullets). I had been providing some dry layer feed on the side (some like to eat it along with their FF), but with the...
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    Deteriorating 3-4 week old chick

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Cream Legbar female...few weeks old. Avg size for age. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She had been the spitfire of the 8 chick brood, but she suddenly went lethargic a couple days ago...
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    Prebiotics / Resistant Starch for Chickens

    Does anyone here supplement their birds with resistant starch (RS)? For those unaware, RS is not very digestible in the digestive tract, but it moves on into the intestines to feed the good bacteria there. For people, good RS sources are green bananas/plantains, cooked and cooled potatoes/beans...
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    Fecal Sample Storage

    Not sure where to post this so I'm posting it in here... I've been struggling to get a stool sample from a sick chicken, but finally got a chance at one tonight (most are pure watery liquid). I'm planning on bringing it in to the avian vet tomorrow morning. At what temp do you recommend storing...
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    Opinions on hen with laying issue

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Olive egger...almost 1yr...normal weight 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She has had runs for a month or so, but her laying had been normal (about 3-4 days on and 1 day off). A week ago...
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    Assuming a hen with a reproductive issue

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) White leghorn...almost exactly 1 year old...seems to be normal size for a leggy 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She stands in a penguin stance. She is lethargic and low energy. She's...
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    Weakening hen and wringing neck

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Olive egger. She's about 10 months old and is of average weight. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She has had some runny, loose stools for awhile. They are darker in nature and I've seen...
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    Anyone Try the Thermo Chicken Perch yet?

    http://www.khpet.com/thermo-chicken-perch.html I've been researching ways to take the edge off of the combs and wattles of my leghorns this winter, when it gets well below 0F, and stumbled across this. I don't recall seeing it mentioned in here before. Anyone have one? Opinions? I don't think...
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