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Afternoon update: It must be a slow draining crop, because now her crop feels much smaller than earlier when she woke up. Shes been energetic today but only ate a bite mushed oatmeal.

Thank you for your reply! I had a feeling the people food would be hard to digest but that’s been the only thing she won’t turn her beak to. I would have most definitely taken my time with softer foods but seeing her energy decline from lack of food was hard to watch. I will most definitely...

We believe she is a frizzle easter egger. She was a surprise chick so that’s our best bet. We suspect she had a bad case of feather mites. Her back was completely bald, her feathers were stopped into sticks and she stopped laying eggs a while ago, so we attributed it to that. We treated the...

My 2 year old hen had impacted and sour crop, it wouldn’t clear after our attempts at home so we took her in for surgery. Her crop was clearing bit by bit but her appetite was horrible. (possibly from her antibiotics?) We’ve tried: Yogurt, eggs, cottage cheese, watered mash, fermented feed...

I’m not sure when her last egg was but there are a few in our collection that look like hers. I’m going to go ahead and treat her for everything because she seems to show symptoms of being egg bound with the way she is acting. Thank you so much for your reply and articles! Super helpful Do...

Thank you for your reply!! I’ll start treating her for vent gleet. She’s snuggled up dozing off in my lap at the moment.

Our 1 year and 9 month old hen was starting to act funny last night, as she was going in the nesting box instead of the roosting bar at night. We thought she had a late egg. But this morning, I noticed she was standing still by the water, ignoring the food i had brought in. I picked her up to...