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Hi, I just found one of my three year old bantam buff orpington hens in the coop tonight, not on a perch, who has a seriously bloated abdomen, almost like an inflated balloon. I can't feel any hardness like an egg, but it is so bloated and stretched it is hard to tell. I don't see any blockage...

Has anyone had any success with sour crop and what did you do? I have a sick three year old hen (with sour crop? not eating, weak, repeated liquid in crop, green diarrhea, light and bony ). I have tried isolation/rest, massaging crop, ACV/electrolytes/rescue remedy/tiny bit of GSE in water, and...

I have a three year old chicken with sour crop? ( see my post "chicken starving liquid crop") who is weak now and hasn't been eating. How do I give antibiotics and what do people recommend (I am not near town but there is a corner store nearby, or my husband could bring something back tonight)...

I have a sick chicken who hasn't been eating, is light as a feather and has liquid in her crop. I'm thinking sour crop? I separated her yesterday and she isn't doing well. When I first realized she was sick and picked her up, a bunch of liquid came up from the pressure of my hand as I was...

I just found another hen with a vent prolapse. This is my second this spring in 11 month old chickens. Why would I be getting this? Is it connected with a vitamin deficiency? Disease? Bacteria? My first recovered, although her poos were very stinky, and I returned her to the flock. Could she...

I have a little bantam chick with spraddle leg on one side. Repeated attempts at making a brace with bandaids keep coming off. Will the condition correct itself do you think?

Just went (going through) first incubator hatch and having trouble assessing some things. Like how is it that during my hatch (after day 18), my hygromometer read between 65% and 75% and a brief high of about 82%, and never was there any misting of the windows at hatching and it actually seemed...

I know I've seen lots on culling chick options lately but now I can't find the posts. help! sigh.

Oh dear, this morning got up to check the incubator and the temperature was down to around 96! It was/is day 20, this afternoon will start day 21. Yesterday had three pips out of 42 eggs, and this morning had one hatched chick, the two pips are still alive, no new pips. How bad is it do you...

It's day 18, and I am just about to take out my automatic turner and put the eggs on their sides for hatching. What do I do with the thermometer, put it on the eggs and have them hatch underneath it? Then the chicks would knock it about? My still air hova-bator doesn't hold its temperature well...

I have a hen with a prolapsed vent (discovered this afternoon) and just now when I felt for the egg I can feel it but it seems broken inside and she is straining to pass it (it doesn't seem to be moving). What should I do?

Just discovered a little hen with this: Is it blocked intestines? Doesn't seem to be an egg there... It's pretty dramatic. Help! How can I help her?!

Just read in another post that bantam eggs often take less time to hatch than standard eggs (bantams can start hatching on day 19). Do I have a problem having a mix in my incubator?

What is wrong with these hens (mites? feather picking? other?)? The first one has dry scaly skin. What can I do to help them?

I have a new Hova-Bator still air styrofoam incubator (with plastic inner water tray and plastic egg turner), and I started eggs in it yesterday. I had it going for a day or two before I put the eggs in. But it smells terrible. How are developing chicks supposed to do well in those fumes? Has...

Hi! Started some eggs in my incubator today, and just realized the instructions given (and which I followed) are for the circulated air model when I have the thermal air model. The instructions say to fill trough C throughout the incubation and fill both troughs C and T at 2 to 3 days before...

I had a mother hen sitting on six eggs. Only one chick hatched, who seems great. Any special considerations for only one chick with its mother?

Trying to understand what is going on with my chickens! A number have feather loss on the underside of their necks, one has a completely naked neck all around! Also some feather loss on lower backs. What is going on? Is this caused by mites or bugs? Where do I go for info on that? Can chickens...