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    Lethargic chicken, egg bound or worse

    I appreciate that. We were prepared and she passed quickly and didn't seem to suffer long for which we were thankful
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    Lethargic chicken, egg bound or worse

    Unfortunately she passed away a few hours later. We are considering cutting her open to find out but not sure. I believe she had internal laying because there where 2 hard lumps that felt egg shaped.
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    Lethargic chicken, egg bound or worse

    This is kind of what I was fearing.. her belly is very hard so I think she may have internal lay since of 3 leghirns I only get a white egg or 2 every few days (the rest of my birds lay brown)
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    Lethargic chicken, egg bound or worse

    Hello I doubt I can save her anymore but maybe someone knows. Last night I found a leghorn chicken huddled under the coop. It was 900 at night and everyone but her had gone to bed. She was very ruffled up and looked ill. She is just about a year old and had a sour crop a few months ago but has...
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    Reintegration of a sick chicken

    Thanks you for showing me that! I had no idea I could add my location. We live in northern Vermont which is USDA Zone 4a and we are currently going into winter right now. and my apologies the coop is 6 x 8 feet or so (a little larger). I remember building it for 16 birds based off of 3 square...
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    Reintegration of a sick chicken

    it is a 4x8 coop. We put her out in a large play pen in the yard today and the girls paid her absolutely no attention. After around 3 hours we decided to try a chicken or two in with her, they didn't peck her even once. We actually ended up letting her out of the pen to see how it would go with...
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    Reintegration of a sick chicken

    Yeah from what I was reading i noticed that trend. I'm willing to do what I can to get her back to her flock. I've seen it can take a few months which will be the hardest part since it's winter. When you say tight on space do you mean the coop? The coop is built for 16 chickens on the large...
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    Reintegration of a sick chicken

    That sounds very similar to my plan so far. I was thinking kennel her out for the day time and still bring her out at night until she can't begin to get along at day time. Thinking maybe try to get the ducks to accept her? They're protective of another chicken we have. After she can begin to...
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    Reintegration of a sick chicken

    Hi all I'm hoping maybe someone can help, last Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving we had a chicken who fell ill of sour crop. We brought her in close to roosting time that night. We have had her inside since getting healed up. Today is Tuesday so 5 ish days later and we are ready to begin...
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    Sour crop? Green poop?

    Hello all I just wanted to update you all and thank you so much for your help, our chicken, now named Margaret, seems all healed up. Her crop is emptying every morning. She is eating well and fine on her normal dry food, drinking and moving around. Her comb and wattles are almost as bright red...
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    Sour crop? Green poop?

    Sounds good, should I continue with offering moistened pellet feed in small quantities throughout the day or try to work her back towards dry food? Also would I be correct in assuming that I should keep her indoors and isolated until I know she is clearing the crop fully and regularly? Thank you...
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    Sour crop? Green poop?

    This morning she had an almost empty crop but what was there was kind of stiff and felt maybe like some of the scratch grains she had been getting prior to falling ill. Her urates were also white this morning not yellow. Much more lively she tried to fly off her treatment chair when I walked...
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    Sour crop? Green poop?

    I live in northern Vermont in the US in zone 4a so at this point we have had multiple days of freezing cold has been a little warmer here than the usual. But the ground has frozen a few times. Every other bird in the flock looks healthy so far and I've been checking crops and combs every morning...
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    Sour crop? Green poop?

    She is a young layer one of our first to lay that started around November 10th which would have been about 20 weeks old (came home June 15th). She is one of 3 white laying chickens and we haven't had any abnormalities all have had strong and consistent eggs, there was one that was large (for a...
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    Sour crop? Green poop?

    Hello all Today is Saturday the 28th of November. On Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving I went out to my flick to notice a white leg bar chicken in my flock sitting off by herself under the coop. Concerned I checked on her and a chicken that normally ran way held very still as I picked her...
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