Unsecure chicken perches

[lillybettybabs]

Looking for advice

Babs has been off colour for over two months now,It started off with softies and looking ill. I brought her indoors and started to feed her up, i did notice she had a slight impacted crop and no feathers on her underside. Thinking it was the molth i just kept my eye on her and she seemed to pick up.

Two weeks later it happened again softies and impacted crop, so i sorted her out but also noticed there was no sign of feather pins growing through on her underside, so just kept an eye on her. it has been happeneing now every two weeks, i just can't work it out. She has been to the vets (the chicken vet is off with a broken leg)and they couldn't fine anything wrong apart from a impacted crop (they flushed this out) and gave her some antibiotics. I really can't find anything else to do, my only thought now is prob best to cull her .

[cathybc]

sorry to hear about Babs; not experienced enough to offer any advise but hope she perks up x

[Daphne]

Not sure what to suggest really. I suppose she isn't getting an impacted crop because she keeps eating long, tough fibrous grass or too many grass clippings, in which case she could be moved? I'm not sure if there is a disease with a link between crop and laying or if these symptoms are just coincidence. Perhaps somebody else might be along to help - without understanding properly, its hard to offer advice, which isn't much help to you, I'm sorry to say.

[lillybettybabs]

She does like the grass so i alway mow before moving, I'm starting to wonder if she is eating her own feathers

and getting blocked up because of it. I have ordered some anti feather pecking spray to see if that helps.