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aart said:
That can be a toughy.
How warm is it in the basement?
Anywhere to put her that's in between the inside and outside temps?
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The basement is about 50 and outside during the day is -10. The basement is the coolest place besides outside around.

We were planning to take her back out next Tuesday when it's supposed to start getting back to normal, and tonight will be the third night anyways for her being in the basement. Would it be better to just grab the other one I'm watching so if they get better, they can go back out together?
 
JacinLarkwell said:
We were planning to take her back out next Tuesday when it's supposed to start getting back to normal,
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Hopefully the crop issues have resolved by then.
Took a week to get my hen back on track....impaction then sour crop.

JacinLarkwell said:
Would it be better to just grab the other one I'm watching so if they get better, they can go back out together?
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Yes.
..and to acclimate them back outside, day trips to the coop in the crates.
 
So the first one has normal droppings , the solid brown with a bit of white. She's doing good though apart from being skinny. Loves her mash and I gavea tiny bit of yogurt that she seemed to tolerate.

The other one is doing much better. She was roosting last night so I couldn't grab her (they roost in the barn rafters and they're like 15-20' high). But it seems that so long as they keep roosting, they do okay. It's when they won't fly anymore that they seem to go downhill
 
So I ended up bringing the second one in last night, she wasn't able to fly up to her roost, which I've noticed seems to be when something goes wrong with my birds and they go down hill faster.

They're sharing a kennel (will be upgraded to a larger one tomorrow when I clean them out) and both are perking up. The second one doesn't seem to be very eager to eat though, but is constantly drinking

I had to bring a third in tonight for a different reason. Her feet had frozen solid. Like they literally were frozen and none of her toes could bend and they're rock hard. She was fine this morning. We're hoping it's just that she stepped in water and they froze, and that now they'll be fine tomorrow morning. We had leg and foot problems race through a batch of chicks 3 or 4 years ago and we lost I think all of a dozen chicks to gangrene somehow. I never want to repeat that
 

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