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    Exposed but intact crop

    She sure did! She’s out and about and thriving! I don’t regret a thing. Thanks for asking :)
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    Possible mating injury

    Vet appointment was today- she hasn’t improved much since Sunday evening when I noticed the issue and separated her, but she is scooting around and she’s also able to stand for a short moment and flap her wings. The vet couldn’t feel any fractures but noticed the right leg seems weaker than...
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    Possible mating injury

    Hi all, I have two small khaki Campbell ducks living with my jumbo Pekin drake. He’s been sweet with them until this spring, and I’ve had some problems with limping that get better after a week. I keep them separate, but my setup isn’t ideal and needs revision- it’s a canvas baby gate that...
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    Broody or Egg Bound?

    You might be right- I didn’t see him bugging her too much today (except when I brought her back in to the run after her epsom salt bath and he grabbed her by the neck…) but I had them out in the pool, put the girls back in the run and they were fine, once the drake went in she went back in the...
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    Broody or Egg Bound?

    I have had two khaki Campbell ducks for a bit over a year. They were previously separated from my drake and lived with my disabled drake, but he passed away in December and my remaining drake was lonely and sad so I opened up the run and they now live with him full time. One of the two khakis...
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    Fox in the ‘hood

    There’s a fox in my neighborhood- I’ve heard it for weeks but it seems now it’s in my backyard/the neighbors found poop that “looked like dog poop” in their yard and heard it close by too the past few nights. I have my chickens and ducks in separate enclosed runs (chicken wire with hardware...
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    Help identifying if egg bound

    I do, I add a scoop to their food (they’re gravity fed via pvc pipe with a tray at the bottom). I can tell they’re eating it because initially they throw it out when picking through for pellets and then the amount that’s on the ground reduces a bit before it’s time to refill the pipe. I added...
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    Help identifying if egg bound

    Hey all, I tend to be an over reactor / jump the gunner and end up usually making things more complicated. That being said- I’m trying to step back and see how things go but wanted to run this by those maybe more experienced to see if I should be worried. All of my chickens stopped laying...
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    Khaki Campbell - 5 weeks old

    Both girls! Just turned a year old last month 🥰 I’ve learned since having both genders, boys are a little squeaky but sound hoarse and girls seem to just quack right away.
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    Suspecting self injury - help with stopping it

    No prolapse. Her vent is totally fine, it looks like a pecking injury to the left of her vent. I took a (bad) picture. She is picking at it if I don’t restrict her access, so I’m spraying with vetericyn every 12 hours and then keeping her covered in a tshirt which she’s really mad about...
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    Suspecting self injury - help with stopping it

    on New Years Eve my 1.5ish year old hen got an impacted crop. I treated it, gave her a crop bra, forgot to take it off and she basically ripped herself (and drop) open. She was stitched up at the vet and made a full recovery. She integrated back with the other hens and seemed to be doing ok...
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    Crop problems

    She has not laid, going on almost a year since the incident so I suspect the same- I’m thinking she popped out part of her reproductive system and she’ll just never lay again, which is okay. There’s two of us and 5 chickens, we get more eggs than we need weekly so she’s just a spoiled chicken...
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    Crop problems

    So the blood and the crop impacting happened almost a year apart. She’s been totally fine since passing so much blood (she wasn’t in our care when it happened but what I was told was it was a significant amount for 1.5 days and then never happened again). She’s been normal poops though when we...
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    Exposed but intact crop

    Thank you so much, this comment means a lot!
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    Exposed but intact crop

    A small update- we are home and she’s set up in my office with me for 2-3 weeks in a tote with pine shavings though I’ve felt it was best today and as I see how she does with her stitches, to keep her in the bottom part of her carrier with a blanket / towel to restrict her movement a bit. At...
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