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I found him dead at 11:00 last night. I had been awake, still dithering about whether to try to tube feed, or what to do. I hate to think I might have inadvertently not gotten enough food into him, causing him to starve. I was trying to walk a fine line between trying to get food into him to...

Thanks for replying guys. It seems the only help you can get with a chicken is either online or from the guy at First State. cyanne if I do decide to feed, I'll try it like that. I've been looking at pics of chicken anatomy online and I don't feel confident I can tube feed successfully. I had...

Uh, help? Anyone? I think the choice might be tube feed or death, although he might die anyway.

I thought we were keeping him alive well enough, if not entirely defeating the problem, but I was wrong. This afternoon I found my bird hunched, with ruffled feathers, dull eyes, drooped wings, and he can hardly stand up or keep his balance. I know the logical thing to do would be to cull him...

Thanks so much speckledhen! Yes, the hard pellets gassed him back up again. I just massaged as much of the gas back out as a could. The pellets soaked in acidified copper sulfate water hadn't gassed him up, only the hard pellets. I had stopped the yogurt/active cultures because I thought they...

O.K., even though I'm talking entirely to myself here, I'm going to update this. Last night I thought he was a gonner, because his crop no longer seemed to be emptying, and when I touched it, he vomited (stuff came out - chickens can't actively puke like we can). However, he had drunk a lot of...

Anyone? I should add that this is the favorite of all of our chickens. Even people who visit who don't like chickens at all remember his name and remember him the next time they visit. There's only one like him.

My 3 year old bantam araucana rooster had a bout of crop-binding at the end of the summer, which I fixed over a few days with olive oil/bread and crop massage. He then seemed fine, although his molt was taking a long time. Last weekend I noticed he was not well, hunched, ruffled, closing eyes...