Re: Happy Ducks and sick chicken

From: Woof Ridge (woofridge_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:12:04 -0500

In article <41d18990$0$73197$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>,
news@REMOVETHISkintaline.co.uk says...
> It's very tight with a lumpy surface;
> > it feels exactly like vacuum-packed coffee. The birds are free-range
> > and are fed pellets and cracked corn. --Pat
>
> Its not something we have come across as far as I can envisage
> Its definately one for someone to see I would have to suggest
> Obviously things are not right
> Is she drinking - ie are things going down alright?
> Could she have been bitten by something?
>

Call me silly, but that lump of "vacuum-packed coffee" sounds like a
crop to me. Can't help with the symptoms, but I remember the first time
I felt a full crop--ran to the chicken books to see what dread disease
my poor hen had, I did.

Woof