Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

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Yes. Usually. But then sometimes you look at a naturally evolved process and think ‘geez that could have been designed better’!
Never forget it started with something random and there are many solutions to the same biological problem.
Teeth, rocks in a gizzard, secretions that dissolve food outside the body - all good solutions to a problem. None perfect.
Anyway, Minnie’s personal solution to her blocked crop is to fill it as full as it is possible to fill.

Absolutely. And many random changes are disastrous for the organism.

 

[Perris]

Minnie’s personal solution to her blocked crop is to fill it as full as it is possible to fill.

that suggests to me that she's starving. Have you tried massaging the crop to shift the impaction?

 

[RoyalChick]

that suggests to me that she's starving. Have you tried massaging the crop to shift the impaction?

Oh yes indeed. Coconut oil. Massages every few hours. Treatment for roundworms and cocci both found in fecal sample. Now treatment for sour crop.
I won’t bore everyone with it here as I have posted elsewhere.
The optimist in me says she is getting a bit better (as evidenced by her covering me in foul smelling black poo vs clear water poo). But I believe crop issues are often secondary to a more serious underlying pathology so I am not getting my hopes up.
She has zip in her step and enjoys scratching and bathing so I will continue to treat her as best I can.
She is a funny little thing - she enjoys the massages. Shad taught me I had to be quite firm and I am but she relaxes into it. When she complains I let her go but I can knead her crop for about ten minutes at a time.

 

[RoyalChick]

Maria's just come back. Only Venka unaccounted for now. The Penedesencas are even more skittish than usual, but I can't help noticing that they're first back, so fast to react both to a threat and to the absence of a threat.

Yay! Hope Venka makes it home.

 

[no fly zone]

So I went out to the big coop to put an ice bottle in the waterer, and Laserbeak is gone. Had to take my stepdaughter to the dentist, so I didn't have too much time to look. No sign of any foul play. I am hoping that maybe she just somehow fell in one of the gaps in the wall and is just under the coop, although I did not hear her crying and didn't hear anything when I called out for her.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Oh gosh, must be the day for it. 2 of my pullets hopped the fence. As I was enjoying my fist cup of Joe I heard my roo repeatedly crowing so I went out to give him his morning snack and get the main flock back into the run.
My auntie yells to me that 2 of my pullets were out and trying to get back in. I look but gone. I check all neighbors yards calling with my can of treats and my heart starts sinking.... no where. I walk the hood, I drive the hood, I post a lost and found add, I'm feeling sick. They disappeared. 15 minutes later auntie yells she sees them across the street. They had been hiding under the neighbors house . Shortly after a long try getting them back in the yard, the neighbors hunting dog (not fenced and left to road the hood) was out sniffing my neighbors yard on on to their scent. so stressful.

 

[ManueB]

Oh gosh, must be the day for it.

Ditto. Théo got a huge splinter on his leg near his foot, when I pulled it out it bled so much we had to make a compression with a band. We put some betadin and a bandage on it, hope it doesn't get infected. And Caramel broke an egg inside her .

@Perris any sign of Venka ?

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Lots of the hens I knew did this when they were broody and sitting. It went eat a bit, walk a few steps then leap up in the air screaming and tear off into the distance.
Never been too sure what it meant. Ready to fight and defend perhaps...

I'm sure you could relate it to a pregnant woman and in labor.

 

[Bobalina]

Of course you can join in. I suppose I could accept Floofy quail butts as tax but I should mention I know nothing about quail.

Thank you!!

 

[Molpet]

I spent 2 hrs trying to get some wayward poults back in. A doe jumped in the poultry yard and they flew out in a panic. 5 moms and a bunch of poults all yelling back and forth.
I opened the fence in 3 places where they join and got 3 in. One was in a tree and I think it flew back in. Ended up cutting a ft square in the Field fence to get the other 3. Everyone gets hung up in this spot, they can't figure out to go around the mulberry tree and just run back and forth in a 50 ft poison ivy infested area. If they went around the tree or a few hundred ft the other way there is an opening. I finally decided to make a Pop door LOL only took half a dz years.