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Hi kathy! And BYC! i have a question for you: Ginger seems to have quite a bit of mucus in her mouth. She shakes her head to dislodge it while she is eating and she is clicking, I guess to get it down. Can I add a tiny bit of apple cider vinegar to her water to cut the mucus? She is still...

Ginger is eating some today, I came home w a watermelon and she has been working on it for a while now along w her dry food. I great to see her eating again! Thank you so much! Especially you Kathy!

So after helping Ginger pass her GI impaction she pooped out loads of green, smelly, liquid and I mean loads! She rested for a while and drank a good amount of water and after that she pooped again. More water and two gigantic burps later she is eating a little of chick starter feed and a...

It's a long red fairly skinny tube. Does your phone send/receive pictures?

I don't have a URL for a picture. You can upload pics from a phone on this forum?

Is there a YouTube video that you consider a good emaple as well? My husband needs to see it done as well. He says he doesn't do well w only verbal instructions.

The vet gave us a tube it's not a French Catheter. Yes please PM your number at this point I don't believe we have much of a choice. Thank you Kathy!

He did yes but never showed us how. He says inset right to left while facing her but honestly I don't know if I can do it I'm so afraid will hurt her or do something wrong. I'm really conflicted about tube feeing. Will you give me a crash course please.

Yes Ginger is still alive, I saw she had bumblefoot and the vet removed it the day after. He stated that is was superficial which makes me very happy. She still isn't eating and we are still syringe feeding her, she fights us like a bull. She is drinking and is gassy, we can hear her burp...

Do you guys believe that bumblefoot can cause a secondary bacterial infection in the gut or maybe even sour crop? I haven't checked the bottom of her feet but spoke w the vet and he said he didn't notice swelling on her foot. I read that bumblefoot begins w a small black scab and progresses...

Do you guys believe that bumblefoot can cause secondary infections like sour crop or a GI bacterial infection of sorts?

Do chickens develop fevers? If so how would you treat that?

We can't do the deep litter method my chicken house is a small fortress. We have a lot of predators out here so my husband had their house custom built but honestly it should be bigger but it's only for sleeping. We are obsessed w the safety of our chickens, they are family members :) Honestly...

Deep litter? No we clean their pine shavings out every 3-5 days. The vet pulled out grass, lots of grass per my husband and the sour crop liquid. I don't think anything crazy was in there. I'll glove up and bleac their house. Ginger is currently hanging out in a dim and quiet place. I...

My first instinct is bleach as well but i thought if there is something better you guys knew about. This morning Ginger started to jerk her neck while drinking like her crop is full. What to do now? Her crop is small last time I checked and we are feeding her Kiefer w crti-care mixed in. This...

Hey guys one more question. So upon this sour crop event w my Ginger; I will be going out to scrub our chicken house to an inch of its being. It's a wooden chicken house so it will absorb some of whatever I use to clean it. I painted it on the inside when my chicken kids were just little chicks...

Why shouldn't panicure (sp) (i'm 1/2 asleep it's late) shouldn't be used during a molt cycle? Bc my bet has her on that paste and she is molting, maybe twords the end of it. Will this hurt her? When ppl say ignorance is bliss man they are correct. With wisdom comes worry. Sigh, we're still...

Why shouldn't panicure (sp) (i'm 1/2 asleep it's late) shouldn't be used during a molt cycle?

Any results w the sour wine?

Thank you Kathy! We are getting the hang of things! Everyone has been so much help, prior to joining backyard chickens I was litterly going crazy w no idea what to do.