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It needs to be around room temperature to ferment. It also needs to be able to breathe (in other words not to be in a sealed jar, although your lid situation sounds good already). I used a 5 gallon bucket with the lid just mostly closed but slightly cracked. I use crumbles personally, and I...

Thanks for this guide, it works amazingly well. Just a side note, I did get some black mold the first time I tried this since I let some of the feed and juice stick to the side of the bucket that wasn't submerged by the water. It dried out mostly and then it began to smell very pungent so I now...

Still seems to be doing just fine! I think that she even looks better than yesterday. She's no longer huddled down with her feathers puffed out and, although I think that the stitches around her vent are bothering her a little, she doesn't look like she's in any real pain from the surgery. There...

Here she is now and we're keeping her separate from her sister for at least a couple days.

Alright, things went pretty well (we think). The vet couldn't tell what the mass actually was or if it was essential in keeping her alive but since it was mostly dead we decided to amputate the entire mass and hope for the best. She got anesthesia and it took about 15 minutes and there was...

Alright, we're going to leave for the vet in a little bit here. I'll let you guys know what happens later on, fingers crossed that they can help her.

Ok, looks like she has an appointment with a vet tomorrow afternoon and, although it's still quite a bit of a drive, it's much closer than I had thought I'd have to go.

So another quick update: I've continued things mostly in the same way as before but yesterday I soaked her in a salt bath for about 45 minutes (much longer than ever before). The black part of the mass was just falling off in pieces (this was good I think) after about 25 minutes soaking so I...

Oh, and I forgot to say that I did get the amoxicillin today and gave her the first dose.

Yeah I've been giving daily magnesium salt soaks. I didn't do one today since she had been so lethargic but tomorrow I will again. I've been doing the hydrocortisone cream daily as well which seemed to keep it somewhat moist, at least for a while. I might try to do that more often, at least...

Yeah, I'll have to see what my options are and if there's anyone that will even take her. All the vets somewhat near me have explicitly told me that they don't work on chickens or any livestock. I think the nearest vet that would maybe do it was about 2 hours drive from me (although I don't have...

I'm not honestly 100% sure where she's been bleeding from but I know that at least some of it came out of that little red droplet shaped thing at the very bottom of the mass. I think that the necrotic skin doesn't bleed much but that something under/around it is bleeding. The outer necrotic...

Honestly it doesn't really look quite like the other prolapse pictures I've seen on here. It is much darker and harder looking. Also there is a layer of some hard white substance (calcium maybe?) that is crusted to the whole thing. There is a soft red thing at the bottom that was bleeding and...

Just a small update: I've been doing the treatments daily (Calcium Citrate/Vitamin D, Witch Hazel, antibiotic cream, hydrocortisone, Vetericyn) that you guys recommended while I wait for the internal antibiotics (amoxicillin) to come in the mail. I've also continued the salt water baths if she...

Wow, okay. This gives me some hope now that I see some things I can do for her. The only thing I'm not too comfortable with (only due to not using it before) is the Amoxicillin. I know that antibiotics can be sometimes hard to come by without a vet's prescription but I think I know where I can...

Here's a nice picture of these little guys earlier in the day before I noticed this so you can see they look rather normal outwardly. The one closest to the camera is the sick one.

Type of bird: Serama chicken (with silkied feathers), very small around 12oz weight, 1+ year old. Behavior: Picking with beak at vent area and beak has occasionally been bloody. Otherwise she's been pretty normal until today she seemed just a tiny bit more lethargic than average but still...

We're having a pretty good beginning to winter and raising 5 new surprise chicks that popped out from under a wood pile right with the first snow. The big chickens are in their coop with the heater at night. The Seramas are inside and safe from the cold/snow. Thanks to everyone here for all the...

Ok, I have an update. We went to the house in the morning and there was a really big dog in their yard so we couldn't approach their front door but we called out to them (in a nice way) and tried to get them to come out. They didn't come out/didn't hear us. There was no sign of the chicken. We...

Surprisingly I've had luck on craigslist here in Colorado. There was even someone in Denver (Aurora actually) selling them last week. Not sure of the prices (20$ ea for 1 month old i think). I have also had an order with sugar-feather farms and their prices are more reasonable (25-30$/3week old...