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Another month later, this hen is still acting like a pretty healthy little chicken and laying on and off (and most of the rest of my little flock has come back into lay - amazing given they are aging and clearly battled some kind of viruses last year!). Her eggs always have an elliptical...

An update 2 months later… This little hen stopped showing neurological symptoms and - I hate to count my chickens, as it were - but she seems to have recovered and came back into lay just before Christmas! One other hen who was hit quite hard with respiratory symptoms during molt this fall...

Thank you so much. I started a new Mareks post and linked this one there, but forgot to link that one here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/suspected-mareks.1604321/#post-27310976 My apologies for the duplication. I'm not very skilled with these forums. I had found the 'great big'...

Bless you. I needed a virtual hug from someone who understands. They really are tragic pets and I am so sorry for your ongoing issues. We will walk the path that needs walking. Hard to let go of my dreams of letting the whole flock age out with me on the farm. Sometimes things just don't go...

An extremely sad follow up to what I thought was a happy ending to this story... When I took this hen to the vet several weeks ago, the vet felt her crop and said it didn't feel impacted and that there must something else going on. I told her I had lost three hens this spring, to what I thought...

Yes! I had to wait for my hubby to get home for a second set of hands. I ordered some Valbazen from the US but I think it got turned around at the border so I'm stuck with Safeguard, which is such a large amount for some of my bigger chickens. But we'll get the all done in the next week or so...

You are too kind. I really think that the 5 days of Safeguard did the trick for this hen after all the other interventions (poor thing). Whatever parasites she had must have been more than the piperzine could handle. She's had an empty crop every morning since Friday and I've just wanted to...

So we finished 5 days of Safeguard on Oct 24 and saw no improvement during the course of that treatment. Figuring this hen was in her final days (she was a bit puffed up and slightly lethargic after the days of epsom salts followed by Safeguard), I wanted to treat her and the rest of the flock...

Crop was very hard and full this morning. We tried to get a flush in but it was coming back up so I let her run around for a bit and we managed to get one in a bit later in the day when things had loosened up. Energy and appetite are still good at 3 weeks today of her crop not emptying...

No real change today. She's only managing to move fluids through and her crop seems more impacted than ever. It was so full this evening (more solids/doughy consistency than fluids) that we couldn't get the flush in without causing what seemed to be a lot of discomfort, and we didn't want to...

No miracle this morning. Just the same hard ball that has been there every other morning. Another flush done, though she had drank a bunch of water before we did it so we couldn't get the whole thing in before it started coming out of her. I added a tiny bit of Nutridrench to the flush to help...

Thank you, again. I did not know I could give normal feed so she had very little today. I thought she could only do soft foods in light of ongoing impaction/crop issues. She would not eat egg after the bit she had this morning but I did get a couple tbsp of canned dog food into her late in the...

Thank you for the referral. We did the first epsom salt flush about 2 hours ago (1 tsp in 1/4 cup - hopefully enough as she is a small hen). I just finished a meeting and went out to check on her and there's one small poop that looks more like a poop than anything that has come out of her the...

I haven't managed the bra yet but we did get a molasses flush into her Sat/Sun mornings. First time we have ever put a tube in a chicken or done a flush, so that was a big accomplishment. The first flush seemed to result in some movement, the second she only pooped out some brown foam and a...

Thank you. Her crop is so compact to her breast/chest still that I think the bra would have to be really, really tight to make a difference. But I'm going to pull out all the stops and brave a molasses flush today or tomorrow and will try to get a bra on her too!

I haven't tried that because her crop is pretty solid morning and night - not squishy or pendulous at all. Is it still worth a shot? She's getting very thin but still has a lot of will so I got a small syringe and tube from the drug store today and might try to find the nerve to attempt to tube...

Four days later and this hen is still very perky and running and eating with the flock like usual, with a very full crop that just doesn't want to empty but doesn't ever really seem to have gone sour. She's pretty thin, but doesn't seem ready to give up the fight. I thought I'd be putting her in...

Her crop is hard in the morning but softens with massage and even more so once she had something to drink. She’s still passing some chunks of undigested grass and some other poops, but her crop is pretty full every morning for a small hen. To br totally honest, I don’t think I have the skill or...

Update on this hen. I've continued with the clotrimazole and have just finished day 7. I dewormed my whole flock with piperazine 2 days ago. I have let this hen be with the flock and living a normal hen life through the week, with morning and nighttime crop massages at the time of yeast meds...

Thank you. I am trying to do my best for this hen and have spent a lot of time reviewing crop-related posts. It is not my intention to hop from one thing to another but when I left her for a full day with the molasses flush and she hadn't consumed it and her crop was still full the following...