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Hey all! Well we just got 4 new chicks yesterday so we can eventually add them to our 3 big girls. We got an Arctic Blue Egger (does anyone have a pic of what the chicks look like - I’ve been skeptical if they gave me the right one!), Black Copper Maran, Easter Egger, and a Blue Australorp. We...

A friend of mine has baby chicks and one of them is panting and not eating. Any reason a baby chick would be panting? No other signs of respiratory illness like gunk in the eyes or nose, nothing wrong with her vent either. Crop seems empty compared to the others. She just is panting hard and...

any updates on her?

Whatever happened with her? Did her crop ever go down? Did the med end up working?

The antibiotics are a concern to me… I’m not sure exactly how they will help. I’m giving her probiotics and I get the Monistat today. I started putting acidified copper sulfate in her water yesterday (this is what helped another one of my hens with this). It doesn’t real feel solid in there...

Update: it’s definitely sour crop. Took her to the vet and she was put on an antibiotic too… and I’m trying to treat. She’s worse today, deteriorating quickly.

She definitely doesn't... once she realizes what it is, she won't touch it

I checked her first thing this morning and she definitely has an impacted crop. Very large and hard. I also don't see any poop from last night so I'll see if she poops at all today. I just gave her a little more olive oil since I can't get her to eat the coconut oil and it melts before I can put...

I’ll check her belly tomorrow, but I don’t think there was anything concerning there. I tried freezing and giving pieces of coconut oil… she took one bite and refused the rest! I’ll check it in the morning and get updated poop pics. I gave her ivermectin to deworm 5 days ago, the second dose is...

Thank you so much. I'm adding probiotics to her water - I have some mixed with vitamins that I will try and see how that goes.

My olive egger, Gertie, is about 18mos the old. About a month ago we started having issues with her - lethargic, losing weight, not eating much if at all and excessive thirst when she would drink. She started molting but seemed a bit extreme compared to the others. She was also having diarrhea...

She's usually the top girl and I haven't seen any bullying. There are multiple water and we have a Grandpa's feeder that allows all three of them to eat at one time if they wanted. I'll try vitamins, it's just tough because if she's not drinking much I'm not sure if she'll even get any. I did...

I only have 3 girls and this is their first time molting. I'm new to this so I'm not sure what normal molting behavior is like. The girls are miserable. They've been hanging out in the coop most of the day (I do suspect it's also possible they are doing this because of the time of year and...

Oh good, that’s a relief! She shakes herself off and then sneezes because of the dust plume! 🤣 😬

My hen has been extremely dusty the past few days. My guess is she’s using the dust bath but not able to shake it all off. Is that normal? We’ve never had this issue with our chickens but we haven’t used wood ash in the past either and we recently (within the past few weeks) started mixing that...