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    Safety of Eggs after a Lash Egg

    Hey Dobie! Nice to hear from you after so long! Thank you for the reply. She definitely had something going on as she didn't lay for months, then expelled what you see in the photos. We have now collected over a dozen of her eggs and needed a trusted word on whether they were ok to eat...
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    Safety of Eggs after a Lash Egg

    Hey everyone. I'm not really finding what I'm looking for, thus the new post regarding safety of eggs. A roughly 5-yr old Golden Comet layer has produced for years. About October of last year she stopped laying altogether. Fast-forward to February 2024 and she lays what I believe is a Lash...
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    10-day old chick In distress...

    Sorry to hear the chick passed - it happens to all of us however. I wouldn't squeeze any part of a chick. The "swelling" you felt may have been the chick's vent unless it was somewhere else. The vent contains a muscle much like the sphincter in humans - don't squeeze the sphincter! :-)
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    ➡ NECROPSY & Disease Testing State Lab's Info

    Kiki, You might add this link for the fee schedule to the NC necropsy link in your post above: https://www.ncagr.gov/vet/ncvdl/feebrochure.pdf S
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    If we lose another, namely the other Comet, I think we MUST get a necropsy done. Our flock is pretty closed now and has pretty much always been that way; we're diligent about quarantine and don't just bring new birds in for the sake of having more birds.
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    Here are a few photos, taken in the last 30 minutes, of our remaining Golden Comet, Juice. She rules the roost... Her sister that we put down the other night looked exactly like her up until about 2 weeks ago, bright-eyed, feathers all in place, eyes sharp and open. We had to put bands on them...
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    Yes. The fee is $30 per bird + $25 disposal + we have to get the bird to the lab (either a 2-hour drive each way, or shipped). It's not really workable for us.
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    We wouldn't be able to discern an overly large liver from an overly small liver, but we did address ascites in this same hen last week, draining about 400ml of yellow fluid from her abdomen. That's what I thought about Mareks, but it makes sense that it could present at any time if the bird has...
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    Thank you. The Golden Comets (we had three; one was killed by a dog in a freak incident, then this one with the euthanasia a few nights ago, and we still have 1) came from a seller in SE North Carolina that buys chicks in bulk from a hatchery, but we're unsure if those chicks were vaccinated...
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    That helps; thank you. This hen was approaching her 5th "birthday" (July). Wouldn't Mareks have presented before then? We have no other birds that have shown any symptoms of either Mareks or LL and all of the flock is in the 3-6 year-old range, save one Silkie that just hit the 2 year mark in...
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    UPDATE: This came from my uncle, a retired Head of Pathology at a major Virginia hospital system. We sent him the same photos that you see above. This was his response: l can't identify the origin of the primary tumor mass so it is hard to say what kind of tumor it is. If it came from the...
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    Thank you to the two of you that have replied! I'd love to hear some more thoughts on this :-)
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    Silkie chick with deformed toe?

    Having raised lots of Silkies, this is not uncommon with them. They can have toes that are turned upside down with the claw facing upward, and so on. In your girl's case, the toe looks broken. Can you verify if the bone is intact or not? I know the chick is young and the bones will be soft...
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    You would have never known. She was active, happy, and did all the other things that the rest of our flock did.
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    That was/is our thought, and that's what we're looking to find out from the fine folk here :-) Thank you!
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    Golden Comet Necropsy - need help with what we found

    WARNING: GRAPHIC Photos - not for the squeamish - you've been warned......... 🤢 Our 4 year-old Golden Comet, Rocky, came from a chicken hatchery as about a 3 week-old in 2019 with two others her same age. We lost one of her sisters about 6 months ago to a dog attack, while her other sister...
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    Possible water belly - seeking suggestions

    We're dealing with ASCITES right now in one of our hens, but she's in far worse shape than yours. Your hens droppings look pretty good, and if she's eating/drinking, I agree with WyorpRock and Eggcessive, let her enjoy her life.
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    Doughy crop, cocci

    I'd like to know how this issue turned out.......
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    Lethargic days old Silkie chick - stumped for a reason for behavior and a cure...

    UPDATE: All chicks seem to be doing well on the Corid treatment. The two new "babies" are thriving, active, eating/drinking like they're never going to see food/water again, and the remaining older chicks have taken to them like they came out of the egg together. All seems to be good. Thank...
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