Sour Crop Chicken Update 

So wondeful to see animals loved and looked after and not shipped off for slaughter!!! Lovely xx

I love penny! She looks like a queen. Little buddy and the sheep looks so cosy, what a wonderful way to grow up. I really wish I could give that to my son. Great video as always!

Anna Belle wagging her tail when you lifted Little Buddy near her and he reached for her was cute.

Thank you for the update and for answering all the questions. :) Those sheep are fantastically friendly, they make me smile. :)

Glad to hear that your hens are recovering! Your son is absolutely precious! Thank you for sharing your story! God bless you's richly!

You guys are doing a great job and I love the way you take care of your animals! Little Buddy looks so happy and content in his homestead! 🌼

"My parents are a team" Best LB observation ever :)

Your sheep are such mellow, loving photo-bombs!

Great video. Thank you for using my question. I love watching your show every day, along with my other shows. Blessings to you & yours.

Little Buddy and Anabelle are so sweet! All great tips and good to know! Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge with the rest of us!!

Yea!! I'm so glad the hens are doing better, they are beautiful looking hens & I love their dark brown eggs!

Wow! That has been a wonderful journey! I've just finished watching all your videos from the beginning after I "met" you through the Rhodes on their Great American Farm Tour. I especially liked the documentary Justin did on you, Dan, and your honesty and vulnerability in it. I decided to check you out and was soon hooked. Sometimes I have wanted to comment but as I don't know how often you go back to view comments, I decided to keep all mine till I had viewed all of the videos. That makes for a rather long comment now. You've been on a steep learning curve and have done an amazing amount in a little over a year. Around day 50 you were bemoaning the fact that you had done so little. I nearly fell off my chair. From my point of view, you had done so much! And you have continued to learn, practice, become efficient, taking opportunities wherever they presented themselves. Talk about seizing the day! Ashley, too, pitches into things as she has the time. And little Buddy is learning so much, helping where he can. Bravo! Although I enjoy eating lamb and pork, I have no interest whatsoever in raising sheep or pigs myself. Yet I watched every sheep and pig video because they were all so interesting. (Tess is phenomenal!) Really, you give valuable, easy to watch information in almost all of your videos. (I even sat through your first live stream.) Also, I read the comments on every video and learned a lot from the community of like-minded people you have built in person and through your youtube channel. They also, have sent me on interesting side excursions as I check out links they have provided. I find you and the people who watch and comment to be kind, caring, wise and often funny. So many excellent suggestions, so much kindly encouragement, such heartfelt words about your family. You are kind, respectful and helpful towards other humans - the varied farmers and trade people you visit, your delightful family members, your commenters, even those you don't agree with like the butcher and the neighbours who spray their fields. I really like the way you treat your animals with respect and with a view to their health and well-being which in the end is for your own health. I like your openness and vulnerability in sharing both successes and failures. I am inspired by your gumption in doing something so different from what you've always done before and your willingness to learn. For some time now, I've wanted chickens in my city garden. One thing holding me up was my carpentry skills. You have inspired me to get going even if my skill level is very low. And I've learned things about raising chickens, too. Thank you. Other thoughts: Love your chicken interludes; enjoy the way you stop to see and record the beauty around you; really respect your commitment to high standards; any/all your hats were fine with me! Martha

Yay! Glad to be of help ;-) At farm and feed places (I get mine from North 40), you can get 50-lb bags of grit (and oyster shell) for MUCH cheaper than the Purina brand. I like the idea of the adding it into their food. A little goes a long way, they don't seem to need much. And, as their manure decomposes, they'll find the grit that passes through, and so it's never really wasted.

I am freaking dying laughing here. Hubby and I watch that video the other day and both of us were eating dinner at the time so it was quite the experience. Of course seeing the clip of the video made him absolutely gag and I laughed. Thanks so much! Glad your chickens are doing better.

Right on... thanks for the update! I was surprised to hear my name!

I can't believe how snuggly your sheep are! I better not get sheep or I would turn all of them into my pets...lol! So glad your chickens are all ok! 👍

Good update, I didn't know copper Marans came in blue....I love all the blue, grey, penciled, laced type chickens...my spreadsheet has all the colors types listed for my cold weather, high productivity (eggs), large sized hens...I will have to add them.

Annabelle is just the cutest!!! I enjoyed the video!

Great response vid as I’m going through this now

Oh man I just realized that's probably why a few of my chickens have! Will that makes their egg production go down? Because I have 11 chickens and only getting 3-4 eggs a day

I use that feed too! Makes great eggs and really healthy hens!

So fun to watch!!

Leaned a little bit more that I didn't know about raising chickens.

Thanks for the info!

Nice to see LB, Penny and the sheep. Glad the chickens are better. Ashley seems to really like and care for y all's chickens. I just have 2 chickens and I recently tried fermented feed for about a week. My barred rock and easter egger seemed to prefer their pellets over fermented feed and I think it gave them diarrhea (I saw poop sliding off the coop wall and that was an unpleasant first). So, no more fermented feed for my girls. Maybe I wasn't doing it right?

I had a hen have that and didn't realize it til now. Her crop was as big as my fist and hard. I thought she just ate faster than anyone else so she got more. She resolved it herself and I still have her but now I know.

I wish I had space to have an Annabelle :D, I've said this before, but that is an awesome friendly sheep.

I have had a two chickens that got sour crop. I am not sure what caused the problem in the first chicken but the second one had eaten a hard object that blocked her crop. I had to massage her two to three times a day and push the object up out of the opening at the bottom of the crop then food would move through the crop until the object would block the crop again. If I did not keep up the treatment the crop would sour. She would eat rocks like crazy trying to break down the unknown object on her own. It took at least three months before it got small enough to pass through the digestives system. I tried to get it out I even used a long pair of forceps that I could feel it with but it would not come out. The only problem was she developed the bad habit of eating rocks for the rest or her life. Her crop would be full of small rocks. Her dropping would be a pile of pebbles. Has anyone else had this experience with chickens eating something that blocked the crop.

Hey Mr. Dolittle...Now you're teaching the animals to speak? What's next...teaching Li'l Buddy Alpaca Speak? Lol! Just joshing. But you do have that magic touch with your creatures. Lots of fun to watch. Thanks for the enjoyment! :))

Hi guys, just a question. I know nothing about sheep they seem so tame and gentle. Are they usually, or is it just your care for them that makes them so calm. Also, what are the usual times of year that you would shear them? tyfs Pat

How often to feed yogurt? I have went outside and feed her a few tbsp every 2 hours. Annabelle loves you and little buddy. She just waits for the hugs.

How long did it take? It took me almost a month to get mine better.

You shold take the halter off penny for a bit to let it breathe

how is your rain situation? bol

When are you getting your cow

YT had unsubbed me! What the heck! I am back now!

A lady by the name of Cynthia Fuller has a video on fermented feed and how it leads to sour crop. She goes into detail as to the lab test results that confirm that chickens dying because of it. She has an extensive background with all things chicken. Might check out her channel. She did say soaked feed is ok, but really an unnecessary addition to feeding routine.

I have a question. You say "sour crop". Shouldn't it be pronounced sour craw? the craw (spelled CROP) is where the food gets sour.

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it's fungal. Don't let your chickens eat that. You could be passing it around.

Maybe your chicks need grit