Really bummed. We lost her. We tried (we includes all here on BYC’s who offered their expertise and encouragement). We woke up a couple mornings ago and she had died. Haven’t been thrilled about making that report here knowing everyone was hopeful. I really wanted to offer a report of a much...
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Just got in a little bit ago from making sure everybody was situated and tucked in for the night ok in the coops. I felt Lacy’s crop and it had a little in it -not much -less than there was 4 hours ago -and not real...
Very good article!
As I mentioned, Lacy’s yesterday evening crop wad was the same as this morning’s crop wad- about the size of a walnut, firm and somewhat lumpy. I was able to massage and empty it this morning after getting about a teaspoon of coconut oil in her. It took about 2 or 3 minutes of...
No, Lacy has never been wormed. I haven’t wormed any of them in the year we’ve had chickens. I’m going back to read post #26 as per @azygous suggestion.
Thanks @KikisGirls . Thanks @azygous
The adult Jersey Giants were our first -a year ago. Followed a month or so later by a few Agri Co-op 5-day-old chicks, which included Lacy. Then a couple of months later the guy we got the Jersey Giants from provided us with a family of Black Copper Marans (mom -dad -and seven 1-week old...
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Unfortunately for Lacy I didn’t catch this post of yours until after our 60 mile round trip to Tractor Supply. My wife went and got the grit while I went for the two 50# bags of chicken feed. She picked out the “chick” grit. I just checked. That’s what we bought :-(
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We got back from Tractor Supply with the granite grit but no SafeGuard chicken wormer. They had dog and cat SafeGuard but no chicken. Go figure.
I first tried offering the grit to Lacy in a bowl. Not interested. So I...
Both of our local farm supply stores are closed on Sundays (Agri Co-op, and MonArk Feed and Supply). I’d forgotten about Tractor Supply 30 miles away. They’re open on Sundays. It just popped into my head when I read your post here. I’ll head over to get some.
Thanks a bunch folks! I’ll let you...
Thank y’all! @KikisGirls @azygous
Thanks for the photo of the bag of granite grit. I’ll look for that tomorrow. In the meantime I just remembered that our driveway has 48 years of gravel on/in it. I think it’s maybe granite. I’m going to sift it for some small stuff and present it to her and...
@aart @azygous @micstrachan @leighks @lazy gardener @peckpeckpeck (and anyone else who offered their words of wisdom that I might have missed), Thank You. I very much appreciate your experienced advice!
Update on ‘Lacy’— I got up early to check her crop. She was still on the roost with her young...
@micstrachan , @CSAchook , @peckpeckpeck ... Thank You. Very much. I’m reading that article on sour crop. It’s ‘impacted’ with a lot of good information! Things I was never aware of.