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  1. Erin80

    Crop help please!!

    My 19 week old silkie has what I think is sour crop. She’s quarantining, has been for 3 days. She’s drinking fine and she eats eggs with avocado oil a few times a day. She is way more lively (as in acting normal) and no longer gasps for breath at all. Her crop has gone down but still feels and...
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    Sour crop......I think?

    My silkie hen has a massive crop that feels like an inflated balloon. How do I know if this is sour crop or an impaction? She will stretch out her neck and gasp for air, and if I massage her crop I hear gurgling. I’ve tried to give her Apple cider vinegar water but she won’t drink it. She’s is...
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    Tube feeding - I did it!!!

    My little racoon victim Fern is totally blind and won’t eat. We have been syringe feeding her which has been so time consuming and stressful for her. Today I tube fed her for the first time - holy cow is that ever easier and quicker. I got 20 ml into her no issue. I used crushed pellets soaked...
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    Teaching a blind chicken to eat?

    Any ideas on how to do this? Our chicken is recovering ok after the racoon attack that blinded her. We are syringe feeding her right now and it’s going well, she’s pooping totally normal and seems ok. Since she can’t see though, she won’t peck at anything to eat. Any ideas on how to...
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    How much to syringe feed, and how often?

    I posted a few days ago about my Ameraucana hen Fern....she was attacked in the face by a racoon and I’m quite sure she’s blind. We have been syringe feeding her (not tube feeding) using a 9ml syringe. I can open her beak and squirt some in and she swallows properly. I have made a porridge out...
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    Feeding an injured chicken who can’t see

    Hi guys, I’m really not sure how to go about this. My Ameraucana Fern was attacked by a racoon. Both eyes are swollen shut. I can give her water via a dropper and she does well with that. However I have no idea how to get her to eat. I made scrambled eggs for her, but I don’t think she can...
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    Raccoon attack - help asap please

    Hi everyone, We went away for the night last night and came back to a racoon attack. My 12 year old said she shut the coop door properly before we left, but I don’t think she did because our coop is bomb proof. She feels horrible and responsible. One of my gorgeous Ameraucana pullets is dead...
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    Integration and free range question

    My chicks are 6 weeks old, there are 20ish chicks ( lost count haha!!). I have 7 hens that range in age between 1-5 years. You can see in the picture how they are separated but can 100% see each other, they’ve been like this for 3 weeks now. Are 6 week olds old enough to free range? Free ranging...
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    Three more- cockerels?

    Splash Ameraucana 6 weeks old
  10. Erin80

    Girls or boys?

    Quite certain cockerels but just checking! 1- ameraucana 2- Ameraucana 3- blue modern game 4- blue cochin 5- white cochin 5-6 weeks old for all.
  11. Erin80

    Blue modern game comb question

    I can’t find pictures! What colour combs do blue modern games have? we have one blue modern chick, 4 weeks old....right now it has a dark comb.
  12. Erin80

    Are they all going to die then?

    My Faverolle started with an upper respiratory thing a few days ago. We separated her. We live in Canada and can’t get Tylan or anything else to treat this, there is nobody anywhere near us that treats chickens. Two more of my flock of 7 hens have now come down with it. So is this the end of my...
  13. Erin80

    70 degrees and sunny, ok for 3 week olds?

    Is this warm enough for them to go out for a bit in the big tractor on the grass? They have shade available as 1/3 of the tractor is covered. No wind today. ETA breeds are Ameraucana, silkie and orpington!
  14. Erin80

    Question about cocci.....

    Somehow my group of 22 chicks ended up with cocci I’m pretty sure. They go from running around to sleeping to dead in a matter of a day. I’ve now lost 6 🙁. I got my hands on some Amprol today which has been added to the water of the existing 19. How long does it take to work? I need to integrate...
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    Integrating 2 and 3 week olds!

    I have 17 chicks in one brooder and 20 in another. Mix of standard and bantams. My husband has put the brooder boxes end to end and each end is a “window” of chicken wire so these chicks can see each other but not touch. The windows can then slide up and out of the way so the two brooders can...
  16. Erin80

    Chick diarrhea!

    My 2 week old babies, or at least a few of them, seem to be having diarrhea. I don’t think it’s just cecal poop as it’s happening too often. I could be wrong. It’s brown watery looking diarrhea. They are on medicated feed and their brooder is kept super super clean. Clean water multiple times a...
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    Bantams with standards?

    Currently it’s working for us, we have three silkies in with 4 standards without any issues at all (faverolle, Barred rock, australorp and Ameraucana standard hens). I just received my order of chicks, and it’s a big mix. I have standard Cochins, one SS female, one NN female, one black star...
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    Are bantams more delicate?

    Obviously they’re smaller, but are they more delicate health wise than standards? I have a mix of babies here and to me, the standards seem more robust and energetic than the bantams. The bantams seem to sleep more and just don’t seem as energetic....but maybe that will change. They all have...
  19. Erin80

    Chick died....

    This is my first time experiencing a chick dying. We received our chick order yesterday (hour drive away), and they all seemed good. This morning I noticed one of my mottled OEG bantams had pasty butt going on, so I fixed him up. Then I noticed another one of my bantams with pasty butt, when I...
  20. Erin80

    Three day old silkie pecking at her toes

    It’s just the toes on her right foot, she will peck at them and yank the feathers and scream chirp. I have checked her foot a few times and I don’t see anything. Any ideas?? She’s walking ok but just pecking her foot like crazy.
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