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I maybe be ending my chicken career because we live in Northern Vermont and are starting to go to New Mexico in the winters. Maybe I could borrow some chickens for a few months ? My coop is great, secure, and I love having them. I've learned so much from BYC over the years ! We'll see what...

Update on Martha with the inflamed breast and loss of feathers.....I treated the whole flock with Permethryn spray, disinfected the coop and changed all the deep litter. I had found evidence of lice on the feathers the Cuckoo Maran who had gone broody in May and rarely left the nest for about...

I thought the label said the ratio of permethrin to water was 1:2......and upon looking at it again today it says 1:200! I'm a total idiot. That was 4 days ago and they seem to be ok. One hen has reddened areas between her toes. I was going to repeat the treatment this week, once a week for 3...

HI Micah, were your chickens ok? I just did the same thing treating my chickens for lice and am feeling horrible.

Wyatt Orp, thanks. This is one of four Black Australorps and she is the one that had an impacted crop you helped me with months ago. I think her crop is compromised a bit but it resolved itself. She's been normal. I increased the grit and oyster shell station during that scare. Her breast...

Thanks. I believe the cause is lice and so I've treated them all last night. We'll see if it works!

Thanks, I'll watch more closely!

Thank you Wyorp Rock and Eggcessive! I've been watching and I've never seen the others go after her. She's one of the bosses in the flock. But, just now I examined her again and I am starting to see whitish clumps in crevices of skin below the vent. I consulted TeleVet and she suspects...

I'd love some advice on what might be happening with my hen, Martha. My chickens are molting but Martha has a very large inflamed area around her vent, feathers missing and vent itself looks like it's oozing. Her breast area is also inflamed. I've palpated the crop and it seems ok, no foul...

@Trimurtisan @Ted_Harrell @sourland @Duck_life @aart ....In reading back through these posts I thought I'd give you an update on Dona Lou, the very fine hen, and her popularity in the flock. She has not been bullied at all. She is treated equally and mingles/roosts freely. She's a streamlined...

Thanks, @Big Blue Hen, I'm massaging her every hour and I do believe the lump is dissolving!!!! I HOPE so.

Thanks a million. Am on it. Never did the Coca Cola, btw!! Sounded nasty to me.

When trying to learn everything I could to save Rainbow, one of the posts in Vermont Bird Fancier's FB page mentioned the 'sure cure' was white fishing maggots. Supposedly they eat the crop contents which breaks it up and allows it to pass. It did not work in Rainbow's case. But I never...

Thanks, I'll do plain water today!

Wyorp Rock, thank you for your input ! I used coconut oil with the first hen .... then I read so much about olive oil that I've been doing that with Martha. I've been massaging her three/four times a day...she had no food today and yet her crop seemed bigger tonight! I don't get it. But...

Hi All, I've read the great information here, and watched the videos, and have a question. I had to cull my first hen, Rainbow, yesterday after trying to treat her for impacted crop. It was a huge mass, softball sized and hard. I tried massage, maggots, kefir, coconut oil, olive oil...

Hei, Katrin! I'm fairly new to BYC, too, and the community has been really helpful with my questions. I've just started my flock in May, and the hens are beginning to lay eggs....not very many yet. I also purchased a rooster recently and have spent too much time just watching how they all...

Thanks, Trimurtisan, this is a great site to get good info from experienced chicken keepers! This Polish's head feathers were always different than the other Polish so I thought she might grow into a cockerel. I do love the wild crest feathers of the Polish roosters! The other birds treat her...

Thanks all. I had four one-day-old Polish from Purely Poultry. One died immediately and two others were nabbed by a hawk or fox in a half hour interval one day. So now, just Dona Lou. I was hoping for a rooster.... She has been raised from the start with all the other hens and they get...