Help Please! Week Old chick with crop impaction????PICS!!

[The Sheriff]

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Sort of....check My BYC page!

 

[nature nut]

I tell you warden you run a tight ship! I'm really feelin for those suffering nigerians in the pokey for life

Poor, poor billies and the chickens forced to toil in The Pit. You should be ashamed!

Loved your BYC page: really really funny

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Hi Mary,

Is that the little guy you were thinking of rehoming? Hey, i've heard bad things about the corn cob bedding. Read this thread here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=199748

i use the pine shavings in most of my coops. i occasionally use either straw or orchard grass hay in the coops that have roosting birds, as they won't be sleeping on them. For my little kids (if i have them in a brooder), i keep them on paper towels until about 2-3 weeks, and then switch to pine shavings. i just want them to get big enough so they won't eat the shavings. i read a horror story on here of a chick getting a pine shaving stuck in its mouth.

Glad your little one is doing better. Sounds like you're a good mom.

 

[The Sheriff]

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Yikes!!!!! Yes, this is him! I thought I did a good search about the corncob bedding but I guess I didn't. I am going to switch them over to shavings this very moment. My little guy has an impacted crop again tonight. He just gorges and gorges on food. I went to PetSmart and bought a little cage to put on my desk to keep him in. He outgrew the styrofoam jail. That way I can control the amount of food he has access to. If you recall he was the one that was pecked out of his shell early, bled a lot, and had unabsorbed yolk. He has been a handful!

I decided against re-homing him and decided to sell two of my silkie chicks instead. They were the two that were color substitutions and they were also the two who didn't like being around Big Mac. I sold them to a nice man named Dennis who also visits here. He got a lovely red silkie and a blue silkie. I kept the partridge, white and a blue.

Well, nice talking to you. I've got bedding to change. STAT!

Mary

 

[The Sheriff]

Good grief. Ok, I just dumped the corn cob bedding, put down pet pads and covered that with a green shag bathroom rug. If green shag carpet is bad for chickens, so be it. Until the youngest are 3 weeks old they are staying on it. I have three of these rugs I never use and I can put a fresh one in everyday. Besides, don't my raggedy silkies look like the shag carpet type?

Mary