Our girl Ophelia has an impacted crop. Again.
About a month ago, I noticed that Ophelia, one of our year-old Ameraucanas, had a classic impacted crop: Baseball-sized, felt like modeling clay, and she was moving her head side-to-side, like she was trying to swallow. We took her to the vet, and a...
We've acquired a rescue chicken from a vet because we're softhearted fools.
Now I'm worried that she's a he.
Thoughts? (Also, RIR?)
(These are all the same chicken.)
Our chicken coop is under a big olive tree, which drops zillions and zillions of olives on the ground nearby. The chickens yard is covered, but lots of the fruit rolls into the coop. The chickens are crazy about the olives and gulp them down, pit and all. Pit and all!
Now, these are uncured...