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Originally Posted by Cascara
Hiyas,
Conditions like sour crop shouldn't really ever occur if the chickens are being fed properly, they need simple food like hard corn, wheat, barley, grit, layers pellets. Things that they can digest. If a lot of soft food is fed then the chicken will get bunged up and be unable to digest the food. Bread is one thing that is incredibly bad it goes to a goo that may then ferment. Likewise too much fruit or soft vegetables can cause it. As can worms or bacteria.
Ifd this is the same chicken that wouldn't perch last night I wonder if they are unwell and weak? How are they today.
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Hiya.
We lost one on Thursday night, due to suspected sour crop. She'd had sour crop, but never really recovered.
One if the new ones is looking very tired, just sitting in the same place for hours. They're fed layers pellets, corn and that's about it. Somewhere we read that to mix layers pellets with olive oil and feed. We did that to try and get some oil in her and see if it lossened anything up in there.
We've felt her crop and it was soft. But that was like at the end of the day, so understandably should be reasonably full.
Yet unlike the one we lost, when we masaged her crop nothing happened, whereas with the previous hen she was sick and her breath smelt awful. Nothing like this. Any ideas?
This is the same bird who won't perch.. so, I'm unsure.
