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    Hen Balance Issue/Not Standing

    And I wanted to update what worked for us, but my other post was already so long, so figured I would post another. We gave her a lot of stuff and not sure what exactly did it. But, daily super vitamin complex b, vitamin e, calcium citrate + D3, and a stool softener twice a day until her crop...
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    Hen Balance Issue/Not Standing

    Hey, so I've been meaning to but wanted to make sure things continued to move in a good direction before I did. So we were all ready to have to put her down, but decided to wait a few more days just to be sure. We had a huge heat wave and figured that might just get her. However, a week ago...
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    Hen Balance Issue/Not Standing

    Quick question, for that Vitamin E, do we just break open the capsule and have her drink the liquid? And as for the calcium citrate, is there a specific dosage of that? Looks like 600 is pretty common, while there is also 1000mg. Calcium for 3 days, any limit to the b-complex and vitamin E? Or...
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    Hen Balance Issue/Not Standing

    That post you linked is the one I've been following. So far with a few doses of coconut oil and massaging, we've got the crop to be WAY less hard, but still some stuff in there. I brought her in the coop to lay down tonight hoping that maybe it will work through overnight. I want to check first...
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    Hen Balance Issue/Not Standing

    So I have an update. I went to take pictures of the eye of the chicken and now it doesn't seem to be as bad. I also decided to check her crop, since I was reading somewhere about that and didn't think to do that before. It's really hard. Compared to the 3 other hens where it's somewhat full and...
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    Hen Balance Issue/Not Standing

    Hello all, I've got a 22 week old hen that hasn't started laying yet (Barred Rock) and just yesterday started acting really strange. She was sitting down while eating a cucumber we provided to her with her legs sticking out. Then as she tried to get up, would fall over and I noticed she can't...
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