I have a ~7 month old Barred Rock that started acting very slow and lethargic at some point late yesterday. She is a bit puffed up, and not very interested in food. I felt her crop, and it feels puffy/squishy and balloon like. The only thing is that when I smell her beak, there is no noticeable...
Yesterday morning when I went out to my chicken's coop I found one of them laying on the floor. I picked her up and she was breathing with her mouth slightly open and her crop was very large and squishy, it felt like it was filled with fluid or gas. I thought she might have sour crop and I had...
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It's our first year raising chickens and we just lost one of our hens today, looking for some input on if I could have done anything better. I suspect it may have been from being egg bound but am not certain. She was around 8 months old had been laying nearly every day without issues...
My year old silkie Pepper has sour crop for the 3rd time.
Today is day 4 but only 18hrs on Nilstat.
This morning she aspirated some of the sour liquid that she purged as I picked her up.
She's gasping and occasionally coughing/sneezing.
I know how bad aspiration can be but is there any hope...
Hi there! I am ever so thankful to have found this site and all if you!!
I am hoping someone has some more insight for me as I’m a first time chick mommy.
I have a 1 week old silkie who has a pretty big crop. I felt it before lights out last night and then again first thing this morning. Last...
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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...
This little sweetie (Watermelon) has a chest that is sticking out this morning... my son caught her and held as i looked her over. I'm not seeing anything but a very squishy chest. So my question is if her crop is filled with yuck, would it be squishy or more solid feeling? Could there be an...
Hello- New chicken mother here, so I’m looking for advice or someone to tell me to calm down and wait just out, if that is appropriate.
I have an 8 day old BO pullet who is acting 100% normal- eating, drinking, sleeping like all the others and so so sweet, but her crop is rock hard. I noticed...
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We just picked up a new chicken tonight, we got her as she was being bullied by her flock, the other chickens wouldn't let her roost or eat and were pinning her down to pull her feathers out. She's just over a year old, hy-line chicken. When we saw her we immediately agreed to take her...
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I have a year old hen who I noticed is spending most of her time this evening standing around. When I went to investigate I noticed her crop feels like a ping pong ball. She was clucking to me and has bright eyes. She got up on the perch to sleep but just looks scrunched up and...
Hello. I'm new to raising chicks and need some help. We have 5 baby chicks that are about a week and a half old or so. One of them is much larger than the rest and has a full crop. I have been giving olive oil, massaging crop, giving yogurt, probiotics, etc. I can't seem to get the poor...
Prudence is my one original ex-battery hen that has never had to go to the vets... yet!
She is 13 months free after being rescued from slaughter in March of 2018.
I am in the UK and she is one of 6!
Background:
Thursday morning, she was slow to come out so I caught her (much to her disgust -...
I need help on possible crop issues and after searching the forums and troubleshooting for a few days I’ve decided I need to ask for more help!
I am brand new to raising chickens and currently have seven chicks (3 polish, 2 Welsummer, 1 Wyandotte, and 1 Americana) around 2 and 3 weeks of age...
Hi everyone, so 10/27 I took Nani to the vet and sadly received an EYP diagnosis, exactly 3 weeks after I discovered something was off with her and along the way I've treated her for many different things trying to rule it all out. (She is a 2.5 y/o RIR who free ranges 24/7 and I don't even see...
I've been keeping hens since March of this year. They're rescue ex-batts and I have already lost 2 of the 5 I started with, been to the vets with another and now one of the others is unwell. I've dealt with a lot since keeping them - the first prolapsed after one week so I had to learn things...
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My sweet hen Nani (2 years old rhode island red hen) has been through a lot these past few weeks, and where we're at now, is an impacted crop.
She's eating very little, but still managing to eat a bit of spinach. Overall low / sleepy energy and staying in one place mostly...
I have an ISA brown hen, I think she's a little over a year, whose crop never seems to completely empty. Should I be concerned about this?
I've only had her for 9 days, so I'm learning about her as I go. But, she's been laying me an egg a day, she eats and drinks and scratches like a "normal,"...
I have a BA who is approx 6 months old. Two days ago i noticed her crop was quite distended (approx. the size of a tennis ball). I isolated her the next morning and kept her off of food for approximately 24 hours. She had access to water with ACV, which she seemed to be drinking normally. That...
Hello, chicken world! Its been so long since I've had a sick chook, I was hoping to keep my streak up!
I have an approximately 1.5-year-old Belgian D'uccle weighing around300-400g. She has been having some crop issues for a while now and I have run out of ideas to fix them. First, I thought...
I noticed the past few days the chick was standing around sleeping since I bought him inside today to get him out of the heat. I noticed his crop was full and squshy despite not beaing fed so I gave him apple cider vinegar. He threw it up and can't stand.help