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  1. Noreaster Egger

    What can I put in water to repel mites?

    Can you get ahold of some Exzolt?
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    Bird Mites

    How did the Exzolt work for you? I got my hands on some a couple of years ago and it’s been a godsend for controlling the northern fowl mites here. A little goes a long way too. My birds are pretty much mite free within a few days after treatment.
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    Thanks for the thoughtful post. Our original 10 girls have always had a different bond with us versus the other 2 flock additions. I assume it’s because all they had was us while flocks 2 and 3 eventually gravitated toward the big sissies with time. We had a vague idea of what to do when we got...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    Just want to follow up here and thank you for your help. We lost her yesterday morning. She died quickly and peacefully in the run with her flockmates after spending one cold night inside the house. We had some babysteps of improvement on Monday and Tuesday. She was eating the egg, rice, and...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    Her crop is ballooned out again despite not eating or drinking anything more. I’m not sure anything is even reaching her digestive system. She just excreted a small amount of urates…nothing solid and no sign of feces. She looks awful. Just sitting with her eyes shut.
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    She ate a little bit of the soft yolk and rice. I held her and gave her a good crop massage and she gave a little burp. I’ve been trying to knead bottom-up while occasionally holding her crop up in case the muscles around it are getting too weak to do it herself. It felt like it may have gone...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    I can’t really notice a smell with it now. I’m mostly picking up the scent of the sweet pdz. The yellow bits were semi solid…more like the consistency of undercooked scrambled eggs versus mucous.
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    I can’t feel anything solid in her crop. Just liquid and squishiness. When I had massaged it it felt like it may have been going down a bit, but it just expands back out. I wouldn’t say it’s extra large and bulging or anything…just not emptying. Of course she isn’t eating much either…and nothing...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    No real improvement this morning although she did pass some poop that is concerning. It’s mostly runny urates with some yellow bits in it which makes me worried she has a reproductive disease like egg peritonitis. She has had eggs break in her many times before, she gets sick, and then improves...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    I didn’t see her eat all day, but she did have a couple sips of water. I got the M7 in her 3x. She came out to free range with everyone else this evening, but she was slow walking. After exiting she did a small, wet cecal poop. I went to check on her at one point and she was pulling earthworms...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    I definitely don’t feel any material in there…just sponginess or liquid. My wife and I just gave her a dose and her breath reeked. So I’m confident of sour crop, but like you said I’m not sure if there’s another underlying problem. She had some roundworms this summer so we dewormed them with...
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    I suspect my first case of sour crop….

    One of my 6.5 year old hens is lethargic, weak, and has lost a lot of weight. Her crop is not emptying, but it feels squishy and spongey…not hard. I’ve been trying to massage her crop every hour or so, but there’s little to no draining. She is slightly pooping some liquid, but it’s mostly...
  13. Noreaster Egger

    Flock Being Dewormed with Aquasol

    Quick question…yesterday was day 2 of the Aquasol treatment and I noticed a poop in the run late in the day with a large roundworm in it. It appeared to be dead. I assume this is a good sign? Is it common for them to expel worms in their system during treatment or do the worms usually get...
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    Fowl pox?

    OK…so I got the motivation to get out of the AC and give her a peek. It looks like those little black spots came off with a trace of blood left behind. The large ones are still there. So maybe another hen ever so lovingly decided to peck that wart-like thing off of her and the spots are just...
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    Fowl pox?

    She hasn’t laid in over a year. Last year she really started to slow down. At times she has trouble seeing the food she is eating. If I hold a seed in my hand she can be a good 1/4-1/2” off. So I try to feed her everything in a bowl so she can at least come back up with something. When she’s...
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    Fowl pox?

    Got a better pic this morning. She’s eating fine and has more pep in her step than usual.
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    Fowl pox?

    This 6 y/o barred rock hen has had a rough year with her health (I think she had a minor stroke last summer), but she’s still been kicking. A few weeks ago she developed a whitish, raised, circular lesion on one of her wattles. She was barely eating and developed greenish poop. The last few days...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Got nothing done today other than some watering. Black fly season has begun and the first 3-5 days are usually too unbearable to be outside without protective gear.
  19. Noreaster Egger

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I've never seen a rose breasted grosbeak drinking the hummingbird nectar. My orioles go for it occasionally, but prefer grape jelly and orange halves.
  20. Noreaster Egger

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Unfortunately an actual temp of 31F this morning, but at least we avoided the upper 20s that they had in the valleys.
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