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Thanks so much for all the photos. My hen is able to walk with a limp after surgery. Going to save this incase I get another with a...

Thank you for your recommendations. I just lost a hen who was prone to crop impaction so I couldn't do this before.

A flat pot of mint and a flat pot of grass-seed (or millet) can show to be fast-growing and good ground cover for them to forage. Try...

My chickens can't free-range due to hawks. The are on a concrete slab covered in pine shavings. I would like to put some small plants...

What did the vet treat the chickens with? It would be a good idea to clean out housing and treat housing/roosting bars/nesting boxes...

Thank you so much for the link. I also just lost my senior Barred Rock today. Not a great week.

So sorry to hear. It sounds like she was in a pretty secure coop/run. Did you determine how it got her? Here's a link to the Southern...

I had a hen do something similar. She needed to us here wings for balance. Kind of looked drunk, lethargic. She would eat but when I...

If it helps I used to have yellow chickens. Now that I’m older and wiser I have Buff Orpingtons 😆 Welcome to BYC!

Ivermectin. Ok, thanks. I will do that tomorrow. I think they got it from the sparrows that always seem to find a way into the coop

Vet found lice on my chicken. Treated it and I'm treating the others. Just wondering how I should disinfect the environment. I have...

Vet found lice on my chicken. Treated it and I'm treating the others. Just wondering how I should disinfect the environment. I have...

You are very lucky that she lived. We had a bobcat 2 years ago kill 3 of our older hens at 2 o’clock in the afternoon while they lounged...

True, sometimes this is the only way to treat a debris impacted crop. Unfortunately, the OP started the thread a couple of weeks ago...

When mine had shavings in her crop she was near death. My vet made and incision in her crop and removed so much debris. It was the only...