Our easter-egger was a little under the weather last week. We've kept her in a sick pen and been feeding her some yogurt and scrambled eggs and she perked right back up and is back to her normal chatty, pecking self. Except for this...thing...she laid today. She hasn't gotten much sunlight as...
I’ll definitely read that. I’m torn because her crop doesn’t feel hard at all, it’s actually very pliable and I can squish it and just feel tiny grits of sand or oyster shell in there. It’s not hard or swollen or anything like that.
She’s definitely not walking like a penguin, she’s really just kind of standing or laying in her sick pen. Her crop feels like one of those stress, relief, beanbags that you squeeze in your hand, I can feel grit inside of there.
She’s definitely not walking like a penguin, she’s really just kind of standing or laying in her sick pen. Her crop feels like one of those stress, relief, beanbags that you squeeze in your hand, I can feel grit inside of there.
We think she died of a heart attack. We had been treating her for bumblefoot for over a week and caught her on the coop camera kind of panicking and flapping and then keeling over.
She had quite a few handfuls of treats over the last few days. No paint for her to get into or glitter. Her poop...
She eats organic scratch and peck supplemented with some fresh herbs and grubs. She also free-ranges around our backyard all day. She does lay, and over the last few days shes gotten a lot more treats than normally because her sister died and my daughter has been showing her love by giving her...
Sour Crop or Coccidisis? Our last girl has been acting lethargic since yesterday. She's the only one we have left and had been in the nesting box all morning when I checked on her but she hadn't laid. She is 6. Poop is watery and kind of egg-whitish in consistency, I don't smell any sour coming...