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    Flock has enlarged/protruding crops but empty every morning.

    Thank you, this was an ideal learning experience. Concern something was wrong pushed me to learn more, finding out nothing was wrong, was an unexpected turn. Now I am more aware and better able to keep an eye out (regularly) for my chickens health. I'm sorry to hear about your pullet. Glad she...
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    Flock has enlarged/protruding crops but empty every morning.

    I took these the night following my first reply. The weekend has been busy so I apologize for the delay. Here are the four clearest pictures I could get. If you didn't know. Chickens know when you try to photograph them and instantly become camera shy and very fidgety....
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    Flock has enlarged/protruding crops but empty every morning.

    I will work on some side pictures this evening when their crops are full again. They only seem to stay still when it doesn't matter. As soon as I want to check them or take pictures, they become like a school of fish...
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    Flock has enlarged/protruding crops but empty every morning.

    Beautiful hen, thanks for your post. It gave me a good laugh
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    Boiled Fennel Seed without crop issues, good for digestion?

    I appreciate your insight and thought process. I would like to ask if you might have such insight with regard to the nutrients and effects of raw pumpkin? I made a post that details why I ask. Enlarged crop issue...
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    Flock has enlarged/protruding crops but empty every morning.

    This is a picture from stright on, not from an angle that makes one side appear larger.
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    Flock has enlarged/protruding crops but empty every morning.

    My flock is 10 barred rocks hens. Allroughly 8 months old. They stay in a large run most days and have access to gravity fed feed tubes and a 5-gal waterer when not in coop to sleep. I have never noticed a large crop before for any of them, their crops/chest area has always seemd even on both...
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    Boiled Fennel Seed without crop issues, good for digestion?

    Never tried fennel tea before but why not. I do enjoy tea. Just had a cup of lemon balm today.
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    Boiled Fennel Seed without crop issues, good for digestion?

    Not necessarily for probiotic benefit, more so just cleansing the pathway food travels to the crop and beyond. Plain Greek yogurt is a favorite treat they get every once in a while. But I have to buy some just the chickens or I'll eat it all. 😆
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    Boiled Fennel Seed without crop issues, good for digestion?

    So pretty straight forward question as titled. As opposed to my wife throwing out fennel seeds since she never uses them, I did a search in the forums and found it can be useful for impacted crops. Since none of my flock is impacted. I wonder if anyone knows or has experience serving a dish...
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    Consistency and frequency for new egg layers?

    Thank you for asking this. I have 10 barred rock and its nearly impossible to tell them apart without the zip ties. Still, no cameras for nesting box area and the last 3 days they laid: 4 eggs, 4 eggs, and yesterday was 6. Most of them must be taking turns at this point but I had no idea how...
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    White Leghorns Flying, Jumping, or Perching in Trees?

    So the heavier or Dual-purpose breeds are less likely to 'fly' because of their weight/mass. Say some Barred Rock for example. Some of mine are starting to lay but none have made it higher than 3-4 feet high. I was thinking they might end up on the top of the 6' tall run wall. Not sure for...
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    No shell?

    Thank you for your commenting on this. This morning I noticed 2 no-shell eggs on the coop floor. Possibly layed form the rooosting bars which are about 3 feet off the floor. The flock is 10 barred rock, all 19 weeks. Only 2 are laying so far and they are normal. I wonder if 2 others tried but...
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    What size feeder and water needed for 10x chicks?

    Hey hey! Well this particular post is a little dated. Since the run was assembled, I have build a water reservior. It's an insulated 5-gallon-bucket stand with walls that feeds 1/2" PVC with several self-filling watering cups. A light duty spring pushed an empty cup up, opening the valve, it...
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    'No Eggspertise' Coop

    Just like an single x-ray gives you a year's worth of sunlight/UV exposure (supposedly), so my office was getting bombarded with years of dusting in only days. So in a mad rush, the family pulled together to get our coop built. We purchased build plans from April Wilkerson (search Youtube for...
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    What size feeder and water needed for 10x chicks?

    I had hoped to leave a Flip N Slide mouse trap out near the coop to keep the mice at bay or better. I lent one to my brother in law when cleaning out their rental from hoarders and got to watch an epic video of him dumping a bucket worth of dead mice it had caught. Anyways, back to the topic...
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    What size feeder and water needed for 10x chicks?

    Thank you. I should have mentioned I plan to build a DIY PVC system for the food and water in the run once done but it doesn't affect the need for a bigger one now. Thanks for your wisdom.
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    What size feeder and water needed for 10x chicks?

    I have ten 5-week old barred rock chicks. My feeder a tin, 14"'ish long style with 7 feed windows on each side of the slide-off top. Every time I fill up the feeder, all the chicks flock to it. I refill it once a day, sometimes twice, much like their waterer. In your experience, is this big...
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    My chicks are dying!!! Hoovers Hatchery

    About 2 hours inward, where the desert starts. Ha! 65 is shirt weather all day! It was probably closer to 50 or 55. Phew, 32 is COLD. I know it can get much colder but at 32, I want more than a light jacket.
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    Hello everyone! I've gotten myself into a predicament...

    I jumped to page 7 and see you got a new coop. Was this a swap upward from the rent-a-chicken or did you buy your own? I just bought supplies from Lowes to build the coop I have plans for. It's supposed to be 10-15 chickens , the materials ran about $500 w/ tax here in CA where everything is...
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