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    Chicken has empty crop at night

    My chicken seems fine throughout the day, walks, I see her eating and drinking water, her poop seems normal but yesterday I noticed her crop felt empty. It felt empty but it also did feel like she had barely ate something. Right now I felt her crop and it feels the same again. What could be the...
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    Emaciation causing cropstasis

    I’ve been working hard to try to support my hen post crop impaction and sour crop. I’ve had some great guidance from this forum but I wanted to see if anyone else has ever made a connection between continued crop stasis due to emaciation? This girl is critical in regard to her concave breast and...
  3. Cotton Hill Chick

    Hen with large, soft, squishy crop... Sour crop? Something else?

    Hello BYC friends, I've just isolated an approximately 2 y.o. hen that is lethargic. Her eyes are bright, she is breathing fine. While I was holding her, examining her crop, it feels large (as in expanded), soft, and squishy. Almost not like a crop at all, but more like just her tissue if...
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    Possible canker or small pox? Help!

    I have 6 barred rocks that just turned a year old. They free range in a 5600 sq ft grassy fenced area. I noticed the leader of the flock is losing her belly feathers near her crop. She is not broody. I also noticed the bottom chicken in pecking order losing a small amount of feathers below her...
  5. TylerEngland

    safest way to clear impacted crop?

    Hi there! And thanks in advance! I feel like I'm having every new chicken mama problem and I'm so thankful for this community. My 8mo EE, Blanche, appears to have an impacted crop. I first noticed that her crop seemed rather full+firm yesterday morning, but I figured that maybe she had gorged...
  6. Dr.GarryTTucker

    Not enough bugs?

    So I have been noticing throughout my entire flock, 10 chickens, that their crops are not getting full. There are about 14 weeks old. And I feed them around 3 pounds a day. They don’t eat the entire 3 pounds. And I see them scratching around in the dirt a lot, but noticing throughout my entire...
  7. J

    baby duckling wont eat

    We have 2 baby ducklings, one is perfectly healthy and happy however the other one (a assisted hatch) is swimming well, walking well ect seems very healthy and drinking well however just isnt eating. He just wont eat even when the other chick shows him. I am getting worried as it has been 5 days...
  8. LisaCheshire

    Does my gosling stand a chance?

    hi, I have adopted a gosling from a local nursery (she had 1 in her garden) she is small for her supposed age, told me she's 4-5 weeks but she's the size of a 2 week old. She's lively enough and eating well now I have her indoors with proper bedding, a heat source and crumb and grass rather than...
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