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My 5 month bielefelder has sour crop. On Saturday her crop was very large and very firm. On Sunday morning it was smaller and I was hopeful. I was disappointed Monday morning when there wasn't any progress. Today her crop is definitely squishy and large. Anyone treat their bielefelder for sour crop before?
Recently I acquired a Bielefelder rooster. I am quite pleased with him, I live on the SD prairies and he just blends in. As of now, I just have him covering various riff raff chickens. I am waiting for the first chicks to hatch on Thursday. Those chicks will be 50/50 Bielefelder. My plan is to breed him back to these chicks (talk about counting them before they have hatched) and those chicks will be 75/25 Bielefelder. At that time I think I will introduce a fresh rooster.
When are they considered full blood?
Mrs K
It was definitely impacted. I've masaged, isolated her, etc. now it's squishy. It's not overwhelmingly bad smelling. My fear is that the food is beginning to ferment in her crop because I didn't catch the impaction soon enough. Thanks for any help. I keep reading conflicting information about treatment, etc.Are you certain it's sour crop (stinky) and not impacted? The treatments are different, so it's important to know which it is. I have a good way to treat crop impaction if you search my ID name and "crop impaction" on the list. Good luck either way!
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I do not breed for show, or intend to show, but I like to raise birds that bear at least a general resemblance to the SOP, and which are certainly superior to hatchery birds. I definitely do not want to propagate something that results in an automatic DQ.