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    Doughy crop - alternatives to syringe feeding?

    Blackberry is a 27 month old laying hen, and my young son's favorite! She has a doughy-feeling crop. I tried syringe feeding based on the ingredients in this post: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/sour-crop-impacted-crop-doughy-crop-prevention-and-treatments-of-crop-disorders.67194/...
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    Questions about treating a likely pendulous crop, maybe?

    Lily is our independent, aloof, 27 week old laying hen. I have been checking Lily's crop early in the mornings, and for the last 3 days she's had about a golf ball sized crop in the morning, all squishy. It's squishy during the day, too. It also seems to hang down somewhat - I can place my thumb...
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    Small run overrun with flies - what are we doing wrong?

    We have a small coop (from TSC) and we built an attached run for it that is about 6'x3'. We have 4 chickens, about 14 weeks old. We're using large flake pine shavings (also from TSC) in both the coop and the run. No issues in the coop. The chickens are let out into our suburban garden for about...
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    How to stop chickens from chasing our cat!

    Well, I seem to have the opposite problem of many others: our chickens chase our cat too much! Our cat is not able to enjoy our backyard now that we have 4 chickens - they actively seek out the cat to chase him off, even if he's on the other side of the yard! It happens at least a handful of...
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    Introducing chickens to an existing garden with toxic plants

    We have a decent sized suburban backyard that we've been cultivating for 4-5 years now, and recently came home with 4 chicks. We have a beautiful rhododendron that finally bloomed for the first time this year, as well as california poppies and two kinds of ferns (western sword fern and giant...
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    North Bay CA new chicken family

    Looking to add some more animals to our lives, we came home with 4 chicks recently. So now we're learning all about chickens and this site is incredibly helpful! No idea about breeds, we'll have to wait and see when they grow. We also had no idea how friendly the little chicks could be, and look...
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    Chick shaking head and sometimes gaping

    Hi all, I have four 2-3 week old chicks, and two of them get into these head shaking episodes that bothers me! Then today I noticed one of them opening it's beak while resting and shaking it's head. I've read through the forums here but I'd really like to know if this might be just a natural...
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