I posted yesterday for help with my 3 year old Australorp that had a sour/impacted crop. Unfortunately she passed away this morning, and after crying for the loss, I did my best to do a necropsy to figure out what went wrong. She had these fluid filled sacs with veins low in her abdomen. Her...
I apologize in advance that this is a long post. I have an approximately 3 year old australorp that developed an impacted and/or sour crop about 3 weeks ago. We brought her inside and put her in a large dog crate. I read a lot on what to do for her, and we ended up massaging her crop to get...
Yet another in the long line of 'is this a rooster or pullet?' posts :-) I searched through old ones hoping to make my own best guess, but couldn't really. I bought this chick as a likely/potential roo - the person I bought from said that every one they got with this coloring was a rooster...
Hi to all - I've been lurking a little while and I am really enjoying the site.
I got my first chickens a year ago by accident ... I bid on 3 month old pullets at a silent auction but didn't expect to win (no one else bid ) Fortunately they came with the warming light, feeder,waterer, feed...