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    Adult Hen Can't Eat.. Pecking air and missing food

    A hungry bird can be hand fed. If I moisten the feed- even moisten sprouted grain bread, so you can make a pellet or actually a cylinder- think bug sized worm like a play dough worm? It has to be able to hold together not be drippy then open the beak, insert a long pea sized piece in the mouth...
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    Adult Hen Can't Eat.. Pecking air and missing food

    Inability to properly use neck is happening to individuals in my flock. We have 16 hens and by accident, 3 roosters. I thought that finding 2 hens that looked fine in the morning, in late afternoon huddled against something with quite a few feathers (hen colored nearby) on the ground meant one...
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    Chicken with a weak neck! Help!!!

    Inability to properly use neck is happening to individuals in my flock. We have 16 hens and by accident, 3 roosters. I thought that finding 2 hens that looked fine in the morning, in late afternoon huddled against something with quite a few feathers (hen colored nearby) on the ground meant one...
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    Can't kick this sour crop?

    Hi, glad to hear you spoke with a vet who thought their stool was normal. If your birds are eating well and not looking droopy, you may not have a sour crop problem. Our birds free range all day, and their crops get very full. They seem to really prefer tips of our grass to most other plants...
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    DIY HUMANE way to Kill Slaughter Chicken (Stun-kill, Gas)

    We've killed probably over 20 roosters/cockrells and while we chose slitting the throat, over chopping off the head- which caused a lot of flapping, I cant say anything seems as painfree as I would hope. My friend who started me raising chickens was able to snap the neck holding it under her...
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    Sour Crop CURED with Monistat

    Sorry to report plain yogurt wont kill the yeast infection that makes sour crop. It's kind of a candida relative. If monostat works for others, I'd give that a try then after she's recovered offer yogurt. My pet hen developed thrush which is a curdy mass in the mouth and throat making...
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    My chickens don't like me anymore!

    that's my experience exactly
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