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Each day it hurts a tiny bit less.

What a beautiful tribute. I'm so sorry she didn't make it.

Sand will work if the grains are angular and not round and if they average an eighth of an inch in diameter. It's similar to having sharp blades on your garbage disposal. They grind up the food in the gizzard much better.

Glad to hear she's feeling better. It's been a long slog. Are you providing grit for her? Granite grit is different from oyster shell, since the latter dissolves inside the chicken and the granite grit does not. She needs grit or she is at risk for developing impacted crop. A tip for those...

You may be dealing with both impacted and sour crop at the same time. The anti-yeast cream will only deal with the yeast, not the impacted contents. It's catch 22. As long as the crop is impacted, the yeast will keep colonizing the contents. You need to give your hen some oil to help break up...

Green poop just means she isn't eating much. Go to Walmart. Go to the women's hygiene section in the pharmacy. Get the Equate Miconazole 7 Vaginal Antifungal cream. Follow the directions I gave you on one of the previous pages of this thread. There's a good chance when will get better if you...

Good morning. Measure those butt bones by placing your fingers side by side between them. If your get two fingers between them, she has been laying. If only one finger fits, she hasn't ever laid eggs yet. Back to the crop, yes, I agree that her problem may very well be sour crop especially...

Yes, she could be sick from something, but chickens don't get "colds". Intense cold can lower their resistance and they can get sick if the right germs come along. If that's what's going on, she may need an antibiotic. Do you have any on hand? People penicillin or amoxicillin work with chickens...

Standing by. Waiting to help.

If she's in the process of laying an egg and it's hung up in her vent, you should be able to feel it, and maybe even see it. So go do that. If it's an egg close to the vent trying to get out, you might be able to help her with it. It will be an intense undertaking, so let's be sure that's...