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    Blue Ameraucana 5-week-old Chick Pendulous Crop?

    An update: Wendy was not demonstrating obvious signs of either sour crop of impacted crop, so we started her again on coconut oil. It took five days, but she finally her crop decreased and she has barely any obvious crop in the morning! It's been a few weeks and I check her each day to make sure...
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    Blue Ameraucana 5-week-old Chick Pendulous Crop?

    I'm writing again to see if anyone has any ideas for how to help my dear Wendy. We didn't see any difference after giving her the coconut oil. But I had to leave two days after for a required business trip and then members of my family got COVID, taking time and focus away from the chicks. Now...
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    Blue Ameraucana 5-week-old Chick Pendulous Crop?

    Thank you for the reply! Yes, they do have grit available. She is pooping normally. Nothing odd there at all. I will try coconut oil mentioned in the article and see what happens. Crossing fingers. I have moved her back into isolation because this evening I noticed that not only had her crop...
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    New Member Intro - Mariposa, California

    Thanks for the kind, empathetic words! Harmony Rancho is actually the name that my grandmother gave the property when she and my grandfather purchased this house and land in 1946. My mother grew up raising chickens here and actually paid for her horse by managing the flock of about 100 and...
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    New Member Intro - Mariposa, California

    Hello. I am not totally new to chickens, having helped raise Speckled Sussex as a teenager for a historic restoration in NC and then having my own backyard flock in Portland, OR. But I am starting a new flock now that I am living in a community outside of Yosemite National Park. We have 19...
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    Blue Ameraucana 5-week-old Chick Pendulous Crop?

    Hello, I have a teenage chick with a challenging crop situation. I removed her from the brooder she is sharing with 18 others after noticing that she maintained a large crop even in the morning. (I might have noticed this sooner if we hadn't evacuated due to a wildfire and moved all of our human...
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