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    crop with grit/pebbles

    Hold off on the coconut oil for now. But do make a crop check each morning to assess how the crop is emptying. As I said, following treatment for a crop disorder, it can take another week or so for the crop to be completely empty in the mornings. But as long as the crop is mostly empty, there's...
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    crop with grit/pebbles

    It's a good sign she has her appetite back. Food in the crop is the best thing to get things moving properly again. Let her eat how much she wants.
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    crop with grit/pebbles

    Seven days of Monistat is sufficient. But it can take another week for the grit and gravel to be emptied. You may give a probiotic to help speed this up.
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    Blood and goop coming out of chicken's butt, is she egg bound? What's going on?

    Just saw this in the unanswered file. Has the situation resolved over this past week? The photo of the blood looks more like an external injury, broken toe nail, bleeding comb, or nicked feather shaft, than internal bleeding. The poop appears normal, and the blood seems to be only on the...
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    What skin illness is this?

    You don't "buy" hot compresses. Use a cotton rag or wash cloth. Run some hot water, stick a cooking thermometer in it to be sure it's not over 42C or just stick your wrist in it to make sure it won't burn, then squeeze the excess water out of the rag and hold it on the red patch of skin until it...
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    What skin illness is this?

    The cause of such local skin infections is usually an injury, some way for bacteria to get past the outer skin layer. Since chickens live in less than sterile conditions, a scratch or a peck from another chicken can invite bacteria to enter even the tiniest wound. I think if you continue to do...
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    What skin illness is this?

    I meant to ask you if you trimmed some of those butt feathers. They have an abnormal appearance that may be relevant if you haven't done anything to them.
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    What skin illness is this?

    It appears to be a localized bacterial infection. You're doing the correct thing to treat it. Continue the soaks, but add hot compresses to the site after the soak. Use hot water up to 42C, no hotter or it will burn. Add a wound disinfectant to the soak water along with the Epsom salts. After a...
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    Calcium Dosing for Oops Egg Advice Needed

    Your hen could benefit from five straight days of calcium therapy. But the petites are only half the 400mg that is stated on the front of the bottle. It's a mis-labeling that is perpetrated on American consumers. The front label states dosage recommendation, not calcium content. So you need to...
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    Please help my chickens aren't making new feathers

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/great-new-chicken-toy.688785/ This cheap toy filled with black sunflower seeds can entertain your chickens while adding extra protein to their diet. Keeping chickens busy is half the battle when fighting feather picking. But cramming them into a small...
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    URGENT- egg bound?!

    You just needed to paste the link into its own message window.
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    URGENT- egg bound?!

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    URGENT- egg bound?!

    Post your video to You Tube, then copy the URL and paste it here. It will embed. It's almost never possible to tell for certain if a hen is eggbound unless you see the egg stuck in the cloaca. But you can safely treat for it regardless. Get a calcium supplement, calcium citrate works fastest...
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    Coccidiosis?? Or not??

    Treating is safe and will give you peace of mind.
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    Possible Ecoli?

    E.coli's many strains are everywhere and inside nearly all living beings. It's when the bacteria become too numerous that a living being becomes sick. E.coli crosses all species so humans can get it from other animals including chickens. E.coli is present in most poop. Keeping feces cleaned up...
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    Any ideas?

    Let me know if you find any. I've been at war with rabbits and deer and squirrels for thirty years, and I'm not winning. My chickens aren't exactly blameless, either.
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    Coccidiosis?? Or not??

    Corid is a coccidiostat, not an antibiotic. It merely blocks the thiamine in the intestines that coccidia thrive on. Corid starves them. It is safe to treat for coccidiosis at any time even if you only suspect it. You may, however, get confirmation by taking some random poop samples to your vet...
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    Coccidiosis?? Or not??

    Have the chicks been on the soil outside their brooder? At two weeks, they would have had to have been exposed to coccidia a week ago to account for the incubation period. But I agree with your concern about the poop being abnormal. It won't hurt to give them two rounds of Corid to be safe...
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    would like a second opinion on whether to keep going with a sick hen

    Since you suspect a form of wry neck, have you tried vitamin E capsules? Treating symptoms can often diagnose or rule out an issue. I always exhaust possible treatments before euthanizing. Since the symptoms came on suddenly, I would suspect wry neck and treat for that. If it is wry neck...
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    HELP I'VE ISOLATED A BULLY

    She may just hate crowds and the pandemonium of roosting time. I have a couple of low ranking hens that are last to go into the coop, and I'm pretty sure it's a strategy.
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