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Sour Crop
Anyone have any solutions?
Anyone have any solutions?
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How to treat sour crop
I need help treating sour crop. One of my favorite hens is sick, here is the topic https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=8122968#p8122968 I think she has sour crop, she isn't eating anymore. I am thinking of seperating her from the flock tomorrow so I can try to treat her and...
A reminder to watch your chooks for flystrike this time of year, particularly if you have breeds with heavily feathered backsides. I had a Pekin rooster get it a few weeks back, luckily picked it up early and he was fine after getting cleaned up and a bath. It's not common but I've seen it about 4 times in all the years of owning many chickens.
I just seen the most bizarre thing ever then.
A light Sussex hen just caught a small bird with its beak mid flight and ran off with it. Threw a big bit of wood at it to finally get it to let go but the bird was dead.
A light Sussex hen just caught a small bird with its beak mid flight and ran off with it. Threw a big bit of wood at it to finally get it to let go but the bird was dead.
Probably not going to be a great mother
Might be worth separating her if theres chicks around
ESKIE
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So my young hen got over sour crop, and subsequently went off the lay I guess she’ll start again ..
Over five years of no chicken news? I thought everyone bought chickens over COVID! Anyway time to start up the thread again methinks.
I got my chickens in January 2023. Little did I know how much personality they have. They certainly know the specific food bowl when they see it, and they certainly know what specific banging around in the shed for their food means.
Our Leghorn cross was our best layer and biggest personality but unfortunately she died in December just gone. She wasn't laying anymore and her butt area was quite swollen. Turns out her ovary/reproductive system was failing to make egg shells and she was just creating this yolky egg white mix instead. Vet opened her up and found her riddled with cancers. She was barely two and half. I didn't realise how attached one can get to a chicken before having to put one down early, even if they are our only pets. The other three seem a bit lost atm as she was the head honcho.
How's everyone else's flock going?
I got my chickens in January 2023. Little did I know how much personality they have. They certainly know the specific food bowl when they see it, and they certainly know what specific banging around in the shed for their food means.
Our Leghorn cross was our best layer and biggest personality but unfortunately she died in December just gone. She wasn't laying anymore and her butt area was quite swollen. Turns out her ovary/reproductive system was failing to make egg shells and she was just creating this yolky egg white mix instead. Vet opened her up and found her riddled with cancers. She was barely two and half. I didn't realise how attached one can get to a chicken before having to put one down early, even if they are our only pets. The other three seem a bit lost atm as she was the head honcho.
How's everyone else's flock going?
Still got mine but as I was looking at moving back to Perth only have less than 10 now and most are fairly old.
Got 2 little Belgian Duccles.
Got 2 little Belgian Duccles.
LanceRomance
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I love chickens.
We got an incubator and hatched our own 2 years back.
One was a rooster, so had to give him away.
Watch out for foxes.
Does it look like this colour wise?
I read that the hens weigh about 600 grams. Are they really that small? My smallest weighs 1.2kgs (small Ameraucana) so being less than half of that is ridiculously small.
Mine have way more white running through them but yes they are tiny.Does it look like this colour wise?
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I read that the hens weigh about 600 grams. Are they really that small? My smallest weighs 1.2kgs (small Ameraucana) so being less than half of that is ridiculously small.
The funny thing is the eggs they lay are very small but when you consider how tiny the hen is I think in relative terms they are actually quite large.
They are pretty good chooks and very resilient.
